Signs..hired or not ?internship? So i was deployed (unpaid internship but have stipend)in a restaurant for two weeks. It was the best experience i ever got and was quite fun. I got to lear alot and it was so easy to get along woth everyone. I was so into it that that i would stay hours after my shift was done. The boss (head chef)and employees were happily answering and teaching me everything. It is a 5 star restauraunt and i never thought of asking them of doing my future internship there cause i thought it is not my level. The boss said that i needed to improve my efficiency but liked my attitude towards the job. He was telling me about this other guy who was a trainee for months and that he could not learn much cuz he was slow. The sous chef also said i have to improve efficiency but thought i was better than the trainee because i paid attention to details.Few days later the sous chef kept on asking me if i had asked the boss to do my internship there. I said no and told him i am not sure if i am good enough to even ask him. He insisted on my last daythat i ask the headchef, and i said i will write an email instead when i get back home. On my last day, the headchef said thanks for all the help, etc. Then he said u dont need to go back to school, u can just stay here and u can learn alot by working. He said school is useless and u learn cooking by working, etc. Why would he say that? I really appreciated that he wanted me to stay. But was it because i was unpaid? Would he have wanted me to stay if i was bad at what i was doing?