That Time Your Career Died

April 6th, 2020 my career as a chef met the unstoppable force of Covid 19 and proved no match for its tendrils of devastation. One day before, I was planning Spring menu changes, trying to reinvent asparagus yet again or at least make it seem exciting, then I was plunged into an uncertain abyss of the unknown, unyielding world of unemployment. My idealist, hopeful, cognitively distant mind told me over and over that it was temporary, a few…