Assembly Speaker - 9 October
Pawel Glodowski - Chef
On the ninth of October, former CSG student, Pawel Glodowski, came to talk to the sixth form about his career. Glodowski started off his education in a school that was good educationally but was in a bit of a dangerous area. It was not unusual to be mugged. Being obsessed with Black Sabbath and other heavy metal bands, he thought that Camden School for Girls was the place for him and chose to study English, Philosophy, Classics, and an AS level in Politics instead of Physics after being told he would fail if he didn't do Maths. It was also during sixth form that Glodowski met and fell in love with Ella who he married nine years later.
After a gap year he worked in various NHS clinics and helped his future in-laws with their business. Though enjoyable, he then decided he wanted to study film at Sheffield Hallam University. He did not expect a career out of it but he was able to get a job at BT Vision and was there as they launched the first ‘download to own’ set top boxes, six months before the Sky.
However, Glodowski became unhappy with the lifestyle in this industry and realised that it was unmanageable for him. He left to find another passion.
A brief experience of dog walking, boxing for charity, in 2018 he became a chef in a cafe in Dalston. This put him in a world full of knowledge, and left him with a thick skin and the skills to pursue what he was truly passionate about. Cooking.
“As long as you focus and remember why you want to do something, that's more important than compromising and fitting in to someone else's view of you or what they want of you”
An arrangement with a pub led to Glodowski's pop-up suppers selling out on a Wednesday night and every Sunday doing a Polish lunch. Tragically covid and the lockdown put a quick end to that opportunity. After lockdown he was able to find another chef position in one of the top 100 restaurants in the UK, getting the job 12 hours after walking in.
With what he said was ‘sheer dumb luck’, Glodowski was then able to get a scholarship at Leith's Cooking School allowing him to learn a whole new set of skills. Soon enough more venues wanted him cooking for them than he had time to do.
Glodowski’s one cooking tip: never add tinned tomatoes to a homemade pasta sauce.
Daisy
Senior Prefect
