08/01/2025
I lost a job offer 2 years back in abuja because i posted a video of myself cooking alongside my client's kids on the internet without consent from the parents.
I am revealing this here so upcoming private chefs trying to create an online presence can learn something from it.
my contract was terminated and my boss, who was in his right, would have sued me but he decided to relieve me of my job only. in his words, I am not a professional chef and also not fit to be his private chef if I can't keep important things about him private and off social media.
He began to search through my social media handles and saw a few of his pictures I posted without his knowledge. he had never stopped me from taking pictures of my food and sometimes he even offered to snap together, but yet i still needed permission from him before i could go ahead and post the pictures in which he or his kids appeared.
my only reason for starting to post such pictures was because I needed to prove myself to people who doubted my work.
I needed to show them, yes, this is me, chef bawa, doing the cooking in an asian man's house.
I wanted to show and prove to internet trolls, not knowing I was risking my career.
I have been careless about a lot of things in the past and it cost me so much to learn how to ignore people and do my thing, because who on earth thinks they could please everyone?
I still post pictures of my clients, but it has to be with their permission.
I have few dope videos and pictures that would give me mad publicity if i should post them online, but the people involved in it demand I keep it off the internet and I have no choice but to obey.
do not risk your career because you want to prove trolls wrong. according to the chinese ying yang theory, there has to be a balance in everything. boy and girl, love and hate, normal and mad people.
I have a job that pays me well for now. I also earn money from my book and courses i sell, so why should i ever want to pay attention to what people say when it does not affect my income?
