Not getting a thing done

My days are roughly all the same. I go work in the kitchen in the morning. I do prep work since I can't afford to have someone else do it. It turns out that I am fairly good at this and may need to get a second job doing it in retirement when I am flat broke.

I have to follow recipes since these dishes require huge amounts of things and, for instance, a half cup of cinnamon dumped into a vat of BBQ sauce looks like 2 cups to me and that sort of thing can make your food taste differently which is a problem for customers who have come to expect just the half. So I follow recipes and use measuring devices. Once I've made the soup, the sauce, all the desserts, chopped the salads, I am good at covering, labeling. cleaning, too. Then lunch begins and, depending on how many people are there (lately not many being the beginning of January and all) I work the lunch shift. This terrifying exercise is getting less so but still, I work through that pandemonium and after that, grease-coated, go upstairs to my design studio to work on the marketing concepts. Creativity seems so far away from me.