Are you the Hostess or Line Cook?

Sharing a simple restaurant analogy to understand your job.

Tuanjiehu Park in Beijing, China

If you have no idea what you want to do in life, let’s try the restaurant analogy. I’m going to share a bit of personal history — but follow me and I promise there’s a point to all of this.

In high school, my mom ran a restaurant and event space called The Island Club in Beijing. In 11th grade, every day after school I w…