Comments on: To pastry chefs or bakers: would you recommend your job to others? http://www.secretsinbaking.com/to-pastry-chefs-or-bakers-would-you-recommend-your-job-to-others/ What's cookin in the kitchen??? Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:05:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: fairbetsy http://www.secretsinbaking.com/to-pastry-chefs-or-bakers-would-you-recommend-your-job-to-others/comment-page-1/#comment-10786 fairbetsy Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:02:58 +0000 #comment-10786 The rewards can be great but your home life can suffer from the odd hours. Some people really love the early morning shifts, and by early I mean 3 AM, because you can tag team parent the kids, but the bakery is a really hard place to be pregnant. The smells can be overpowering so when you add in the super sensitive nose of mom-to-be it's just sickening! There is also a lot of heavy lifting in a commercial bakery and women can have a harder time finding work. Best advice I can give you is before taking the course and shelling out the money, get a part time job in a bakery, any job all all, just to get a feel for the inner workings of the job. It's no where near the shows you see on TV but a great job if the hours, heat, and general stench don't bother you. Good Luck!! The rewards can be great but your home life can suffer from the odd hours. Some people really love the early morning shifts, and by early I mean 3 AM, because you can tag team parent the kids, but the bakery is a really hard place to be pregnant. The smells can be overpowering so when you add in the super sensitive nose of mom-to-be it’s just sickening! There is also a lot of heavy lifting in a commercial bakery and women can have a harder time finding work.

Best advice I can give you is before taking the course and shelling out the money, get a part time job in a bakery, any job all all, just to get a feel for the inner workings of the job. It’s no where near the shows you see on TV but a great job if the hours, heat, and general stench don’t bother you.

Good Luck!!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.secretsinbaking.com/to-pastry-chefs-or-bakers-would-you-recommend-your-job-to-others/comment-page-1/#comment-10787 Anonymous Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:02:58 +0000 #comment-10787 You have to stand on your feet for hours so if she has any kind of problem with that, it is an "issue"... It is fun... I love the creativity... But then again, it depends on what she is making... The kind of shop she works at... Is it JUST bread, all day, every day or can she put her own creativity in to things with decorations etc.? I knew a guy that worked at the bakery at a Safeway Grocery Store (night work) and he loved it because he liked the people that worked with him and liked being able to make EVERYTHING that would be sold the next day... I love to decorate cakes and pies etc. and would be board if I had to work at Safeway because it was just bread and donuts ALL NIGHT LONG... It is ALWAYS good to take the courses... Just be sure she likes where she works... The greatest type of job in the world can be messed up by details like lack of creativity or bad co-workers. You have to stand on your feet for hours so if she has any kind of problem with that, it is an "issue"…

It is fun… I love the creativity… But then again, it depends on what she is making… The kind of shop she works at… Is it JUST bread, all day, every day or can she put her own creativity in to things with decorations etc.?

I knew a guy that worked at the bakery at a Safeway Grocery Store (night work) and he loved it because he liked the people that worked with him and liked being able to make EVERYTHING that would be sold the next day…

I love to decorate cakes and pies etc. and would be board if I had to work at Safeway because it was just bread and donuts ALL NIGHT LONG…

It is ALWAYS good to take the courses… Just be sure she likes where she works…

The greatest type of job in the world can be messed up by details like lack of creativity or bad co-workers.

]]> By: chef3232 http://www.secretsinbaking.com/to-pastry-chefs-or-bakers-would-you-recommend-your-job-to-others/comment-page-1/#comment-10788 chef3232 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:02:58 +0000 #comment-10788 about me BS in hotel/rest. then baking and pastry arts culinary degree. worked as pastry chef for 18 years in upscale hotels and restaurants. I loved the enviroment but it wasn't with out every thing you mentioned at some point in time and many days it was multiplied by 5. I suggest that your wife gets any experience now without committing, 90% can be learned without formal education. Most important find out what area you like, for me was show pieces and plated desserts, I hate baking breads. The baby should come first, the time demands in the pastry field are heavy. In my case, the industry took my job, here's how... why pay $18/hr, when the dessert can be purchased in whole or parts and the assmbled by a $8/hr worker. Scratch baking and pastries may mean freshness and quality but at some point in will all come down to cost. this happened to me a Doubletree hotels, Adams Mark Hotel in St. Louis and at a high scale country club. Best of luck. about me BS in hotel/rest. then baking and pastry arts culinary degree. worked as pastry chef for 18 years in upscale hotels and restaurants. I loved the enviroment but it wasn’t with out every thing you mentioned at some point in time and many days it was multiplied by 5. I suggest that your wife gets any experience now without committing, 90% can be learned without formal education. Most important find out what area you like, for me was show pieces and plated desserts, I hate baking breads. The baby should come first, the time demands in the pastry field are heavy. In my case, the industry took my job, here’s how… why pay $18/hr, when the dessert can be purchased in whole or parts and the assmbled by a $8/hr worker. Scratch baking and pastries may mean freshness and quality but at some point in will all come down to cost. this happened to me a Doubletree hotels, Adams Mark Hotel in St. Louis and at a high scale country club. Best of luck.

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