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Like maleficient said, anything in the cooking/hospitality industry has ridiculous hours, brutal working conditions, high stress and the money is considerably less than anything tech-related. Not to say that you'll be living in a cardboard box should you decide to become a chef, but you'll work a lot harder for a lot less money.
You shouldn't look at cooking as a career unless you're seriously passionate about cooking.
Now, for years and years I stayed away from cooking school because my family told me there wasn't enough money in the field, the hours were too difficult, the working conditions too harsh etc.... It took me four years of wasted tuition and meaningless jobs that made me financially sound, but deeply depressed until I decided to cook for a living against my family's wishes. It didn't take long for them to see how happy I was despite the 75% pay cut I took (although now I'm making almost as much as I did in my meaningless office job).
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is look at a career in cooking only if you can't see yourself being happy doing anything else. You spend about 1/3 of your life at work, if you don't love your job, you might as well throw yourself off a bridge.
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