I have been a real estate agent for about 2 years. I really want to decorate cakes full time though. I would just be happy in a grocery store. I am only 21 so hopefully I still have time to change my career... even though I really do love real estate. I just think I would enjoy making cakes more.
I'm a court reporter and am sitting in the courtroom right now. We're doing something that doesn't require my services at the moment and I thought I'd check the site and see what was going on. It's a sickness! I'm in the middle of a homicide by child abuse case. I do all kinds - criminal, civil, and family court.
I love caking and hope to expand on it when I retire in 7 years. 
I'm a theoretical linguist working on problems of language acquisition in deaf children. I'm learning Mexican Sign Language right now, which is almost as addictive as cake decorating. Right now I hold the post of "Family Baker", but when I retire in about 3 years, I want to devote more time to decorating. I finally decided to get serious about it at the end of last year and fortunately ran into CC on Google. I've hardly logged off since. I won't ever stop my sessions with deaf children. I basically help them to acquire Spanish through reading and writing. Spanish and not English because I live in Mexico City. Reading and writing - well, that's a long story (pm me at [email protected] if you're interested). But even so, my daughter, a friend of hers and I are thinking seriously about starting a party catering business in Cancún (they live there and I'm counting the days till I can too) complete with a locale for the parties. Oh, yeah, I also sing with a symphony chorale - another really serious hobby.
I am the caterer for a church and I run my cake business from home. Any catering that is to be done at the church is done by me, unless I am unavailable, or I get paid to over see what is being done in my kitchen there.
I"m just waiting to hit the LOTTO, quit this job & open my own bake shop.
Great thread! I'm an accountant during the day and a baker during the night 
LOL...baking is my hobby, but I'm still a begginer.
I always made my kid's b-day cakes when they were growing up, but they were always from a cake mix and frosting was from a grocery store can, so you can imagine the excitement I had the first time I made a cake from scratch 
I was so happy when I found this site and when I read the warning message on the front page I thought...ahhhhh, how silly! how can a website be addictive!!.....LOL, LOL 
i am a Certified Surgical Technician, but Cake is consuming most of my life right now...
(this is my mad scientist face), I clone endangered plant species. and yes, i do find time to bake Yes Ayanami, I have been doing this for 18 years and counting and everyone looks at me a little strange when they ask that question 
Oh how I would love to make a living doing cakes and cookies all day
Hi all
Wow! Thats all I have to say. What a diverse group. I am a retired domestic goddess. Making my cookies seems to keep me out of trouble some days. I'd love a part-time job but with the economy the way it is there isn't much hiring going on where I am. I am just so very impressed with all of you.
ladixiechic1 said :
Yes Ayanami, I have been doing this for 18 years and counting and everyone looks at me a little strange when they ask that question Oh how I would love to make a living doing cakes and cookies all day
Yeah, I've been doing this for 9 years now. sigh. I hate it when people ask me "what do you do?" or "what is your occupation?" I'm like "...wellll..." 
My uncle says I'm the manlyest (is that a word?) of all his nephews. To bad I'm his only niece! I drive a big truck, get dirty at work, know how to drive a bobcat & ride a harley. Hell yeah! What was that song? "cause I'm a redneck woman ..." 
No, I'm really quite girly too. I love to bake (natch) sew, cross sticth, sing, scrapbook, paly the piano, do artsy stuff with the kids (hers not mine. Unpaid babysitter remember?)
I'm a supervisor in the criminal division of the Supreme Court in NYS.
Cake decorating is my hobby or I should say my passion/obsession LOL
Passion/obession is such a better way to describe my feelings for cake than ... Hobby... 
plech.
From this day forwad I will no longer be refered to as a cake "hobbiest" (I'm satnding on a soap box right now with my chest puffed out hollering at the top of my lungs) I AM A CAKE OBESSIONIST!
Okay, I'm done.
I replied on page 6 when this was originally posted...
things changed
Now I am offically a cake decorater at SuperTarget. I started in Oct and got promoted after only one month of being there. I love it so much that I can decorate cakes all day every day! It's the best!
I will be going back to school like I previously said, but this time I'm going to pastry school...maybe next year...lol
I am now a stay at home mom of two (5 & 2 yrs), but in my previous life...lol before kids I was a sign language intreperter.
I don't think I could give up my day job! I *love* what I do, and I *love* supporting the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines through my work with them!!
Ditto! I love what I do as well. I work for the Department of Defense as a Contract Specialist on the t-45 Trainer Jet Program. I LOVE supporting our military. I work a CWS schedule.. Meaning 9 hour days and every other Friday off.. So I try to schedule cakes that fall on my 3 day weekends.
I am also double majoring with my MBA and a Masters in International Business... which keeps me equally as busy as my work does!
I don't have any kids, but I do have a really loud and annoying (but I love him to pieces) Bangel Cat named Simba. He's a wild one!
Marianna46, I learned a bit of mexican sign a long time ago. It's very differant than ASL. All I can remember is the sign for grape. Good luck with that. It's amazing how quickly you forget a language when you are not using it!
I am a dept. mgr. for Wal-Mart.
I have three adult children, 8 grandchildren and the world's greatest husband!!
Started taking decorating classes about a year ago after a bad experience at Wal-Mart!!
Have been addicted to it ever since. Taking more classes in March. (PME) Can't wait.
I do my baking for family and friends mostly on the weekends.
I'm a proud stay-at-home mom to 3 great kids!
sorry, I don't have time to checkout the whole thread right now...
but I love seeing all the technical professions!
I'm a SAHM right now, but 'in my former life' I was an Aeronuatical Engineer designing futurisitic aircraft for Boeing.
most people think I'm crazy for leaving engineering.
I loved what I did, but I love being home with my kids and I love baking!
Passion/obession is such a better way to describe my feelings for cake than ... Hobby...
plech. From this day forwad I will no longer be refered to as a cake "hobbiest" (I'm satnding on a soap box right now with my chest puffed out hollering at the top of my lungs) I AM A CAKE OBESSIONIST!
Okay, I'm done.
Yes, yes I agree!
I was an Aeronuatical Engineer designing futurisitic aircraft for Boeing.
Jen.. What aircrafts were you working on? Any in particular? Boeing is one of our main contractors
I worked on various small projects, but mostly I worked on the Blended Wing-Body (BWB) - a flying delta wing, proposed as an airliner, freighter, tanker, bomber. We considered using a T45 cockpit in an x-plane demonstrator, but it ended up unmanned.
(I miss being 'in the know' of all things aircraft)
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