depends on the spot really. at first it can be overwhelming for sure, but most jobs can be like that. you'll probably break some shit and then be paranoid about doing that for a long time until you do it again and then realize it's just not a big deal if you're keeping up with the pace of shit, but that was always a more stressful thing I had to overcome in the start. you gotta figure out a system that's efficient and good. It's not always just grabbing the first thing you see and rinsing and throwing in the washer, you have to know what takes priority over others. I'm speaking mainly from a higher volume perspective, but typically you need to clean various pans and stuff the cooks use often but you can't fall behind on the stuff they also need: plates and sometimes utensils. I would never call the job easy though, it's maybe mediumish, sometimes super chill and relaxing, other times it's chaos. Really depends on how many dishes the restaurant has and how good your actual dishwashing machine is. I've never been to a place that handwashes everything but some of the nicer places do handwash a lot of stuff!! Dishies absolutely deserve more than they start out, and truly do deserve some of the tips if they don't split it at that restaurant automatically. You gotta either know someone or shop around to find a place that takes decent care of them, you never want to see a good dishwasher leave, it's a huge morale killer unless of course they have moved on to better things and you can be happy for them.

Hey fuck it's hard. I did it and other kitchen stuff for over ten years. I've done pretty much every variety except for big chains. I know professional food making.

I keep trying to do a decent answer but there's a lot of different setups and types of kitchens and stuff and I keep getting lost in specifics. There's the size of the place, the dish machine (if there is one) if you're solo or a group and other crap. No matter what it's fucking hard hard work. Kitchens are a whole culture that if you haven't done it it's hard to explain well. Kitchen work is fucking brutal up and down but dish in a bad place is the worst you can get. In a good place it can be pretty rad but that takes finding a good spot and being able to do more than just dish.