Baraka_Guru

You're only 25. You still have lots of time. You're only 25 and you've realized what you love to do and you want to do it. You're ahead of a lot of people.

Use your computer skills and experience to make enough money to put you through a good culinary school.

Do what you love to do, not just what you think you should do. You can make money and have a career as a chef. It is a realistic goal. Do it.

I spent 3 years in college learning how to manage businesses and marketing. I hated it when I graduated, so I spent another nearly 4 years in school, this time studying literature at the university level. I don't regret it. Now part of my job includes reading poetry and getting paid for it. I love it.

You will always have your first degree. You will always be good with computers, which is a good skill to have in just about any industry. You might even find uses for it as a chef, especially if you ever get around to opening your own restaurants. Most industries have moved toward a greater computer dependency. You have a great skill, but this shouldn't consume your life. Do something you know will be rewarding both monetarily and personally.

Good luck.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot