Author: BassetHorn
Date: 2006-08-17 17:36
You can teach yourself, definitely, and consider working with someone as an apprentice or enrolled in a program to "finish off" your training.
I taught myself to cook and worked in a restaurant as a cook without prior "formal training", then after a couple of years I decided to enrolled in a college cooking program to "take it up a notch". When I finished, found a job at a top end hotel and did a formal apprenticeship and passed the government exams 3 years later.
So, the options aren't mutually exclusive, it all depends on the degree of your ambition, how much resources you can invest, your long term goal.
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