If you want to learn the real skills, you must specialize in hot dishes, cold dishes and red and white cases, but you are not allowed to learn. You will only be arranged to wash together, and even cutting and matching will take some time. If the hotel is high-end, you can learn better cooking methods. If the hotel is not so high-end, you can only learn to cook simple dishes. I think you should go to a professional school and study hard until your basic skills are solid. Sharpening a knife is not a mistake for a woodcutter. I think you'd better study hard before you go to work in your uncle's hotel, so that others can't say you depend on connections.