For around $5,500, you can get training to pass a CDL exam and have multiple job offers when you graduate. Here in PA, there are even state programs to help you pay about 3/4th of the cost because they are that confident it will turn into gainful employment.
Don’t most chefs make under $60,000 unless their the head chef?
One of.my kids just got his CDL. When he registered, they told him if a grant. His total cost was $1000.
All of my kids work full time. One has a bachelors, two associates. They are working their way toward bachelors.
All four have started new jobs in the last three months. Their total income increases are about $85000. Only one is in a traditionally high paying occupation. (Aerospace engineer). Don’t dare say you Can’t find a job. You won’t find a job.
There used to be (probably still are) government programs that teach a trade, pay for campus dorms and give you 40 hours/wk min wage.
In CA, there’s all sorts of tv shows like Master Chef or Chopped or Best Baker she could have signed up for. Or get a couple of her equally unemployed culinary school friends and go on Food Truck Race. She could have applied for a job at a legitimate restaurant and worked her way up rather than scooping ice cream at the mall. If she were any sort of self starter, which she’s proven she isn’t but I’ll play along, she could have used that $100k to open her own restaurant.