Bar room stare

I recently read an article exploring Marco Pierre White cooking in Jamaica. Turns out he is close friends with the owners of Sandals and Beaches resorts, who subsiquently are behind some other resorts, one of which White is creating the menu for. So I have also recently read a book written by White, an Autobiography called Devil in the Kitchen, called White Heat in Brittain. I remember him mentioning in this book his distase for the lack of normal social interaction which comes naturally with working behind the stove. Funny, it is mentioned again in this article that I read. It is not quoted but the article tells that he feels that working in professional kitchens for so many years gave him a sort of social retardation and distanced him from his children. This is why he left the kitchen all together. I love this guy. For years I felt the same way, going to the bar or some social event after work or on my day off and looking around and thinking "oh my gosh, I have nothing to say to these people!" Which is strange for me because I am a very social person. Usually so exhausted that I could barley keep my eyes open, back aching, feet throbbing and hands stained, scraped and burned, the place for me was on the couch, reading Newsweek and watching television, with the occasional trip outside to see the sunshine. Man it has been so long since I have been that tired. There is no way to describe the mental and physical drain that comes with working in a professional kitchen. I will say this to people and they will say "well that comes with any job". Uh, no, no it doesn't. Imagine being an er doctor(not that cooking professionally is on the same level mentally or emotionally, only physically and demand wise) and you have a patient being admitted every one to two minutes, and you have to have them stiched and out the door in no more than 30 minutes but you need to start on them in no more than ten minutes from the time of diagnoses. You will be recieving an average of 250-350 patients that night in a 6 hour period. O.K.........GO! Oh yeah, your operating room is an average of 100-120 degrees Farenheight at any given time. Like I said, being a medical doctor or any job in the medical field is 10000 times more important and I am sure stressful, I am just using it as an example. oops, not watching the time, gotta go!