Understand that you must learn as many skills and information as possible, under any chef you work for. These skills are what you need to be successful. It is your job to ask as many questions as possible and to apply the skills and information that you have learned. You need repetition and practice doing these things so that at some point it becomes second nature and you are no longer thinking so much and you just react.

If at any point in your career you feel like you have moved along as far as you can go, it is time to move on to the next kitchen to learn more and further your development. Every chef does things differently, so you have the opportunity to learn many different ways of doing things. This allows you to assess which way works better for you. If you are serious about becoming a chef, it is your job to do what ever it takes to attain as many skills as possible.