Love reading about all of you; so many of you seem to love all your "outside" jobs and yet care for your families too. I am a retired middle school teacher; I taught 30 years of 5-8 language arts, then went back to school again and earned my library certification so I finished my last 5 years as the middle school librarian. I loved every minute of it and miss the classroom/library/whole school very much. I now take care of and chauffeur our two granddaughters while their parents are at work (they are 10 and 6 and love to bake with me!) I keep my hand in the pie a little by volunteering at their school several days a week. 
I have also cared for my brain-injured husband (also a teacher) 24/7 for 22 years since he was critically injured in an auto accident; it's not always easy because he is aphasic, which means he can only say about 6 words, but understands most of what he hears. We all get very frustrated! I bake whenever I can fit it in; my goal is early mornings, but the reality is usually between aobout 10:00 PM and 4:00 AM. The Friday Night Cake Club is my friend!!!
I am an Army wife of 22 years, and also have an active duty son. Both husband and son are deployed. We also have a 16 year old son who is home with me. I work in a funeral home and love my job. I have recently cut back hours because we have received orders for Hawaii, so I have lots to prepare for! I am also the Family Readiness Group Leader for my husband's unit, and am an avid volunteer with just about any organization that is a benifit to the military family quallity of life. I was recently given an award as being one of our installation volunteers of the year.
I'm the office manager for a tree service. 60 year old company and my boss still thinks it's 1950. I take up hobbies to relieve stress. Not sure this is the right hobby LOL.
I just left my clock-in job (wine sales) to go totally freelance, cakes and art modeling! You can't put a price on owning your own time.
WoW! All of you have such interesting jobs. I was a certified court room reporter, in Adult Criminal mostly. I loved it, but had to retire due to illness/accident. So now I am retired and selling cakes from home (Licensed Kitchen) and was very recently asked to be a Wilton Method Instructor. So I will be doing that a couple times a week in the evening. Excited about that, should be fun. I am separated with 2 grown sons 20-23. Oldest is flying, wants to be an airline pilot like his father, and the youngest just joined the Canadian Forces. I am very proud of both of them. And when I grow up I want to be a Grandma. LOL
I am the mother of two, work as a Medical Archivist at The Montreal Children's Hospital, and am Vice President of Automedic Plus (my husbands mobile mechanics buisness)
I'm the GM for an automotive recycling / scrap metal facility. I am fortunate my parents own the company and allow me to bring my 3 year old to work the days I go in, and also allow me to work from home 3 days a week until he starts school ,which is when I get most of my caking done .
Hello crustdust,why look for a job? Start your own, it will require some if not all of your resources, you can start from home, check your Home Cottage Industry law.You have the experience, have you ever thought of that possibility?
I'm a stay at home mother of three boys, ages 6,4 & 2 and this past summer was licensed and starting selling birthday/wedding cakes out of my home. I am just putting on the final touches of my commercial kitchen that I was able to build in our basement (we have a huge basement!) so I can have my own kitchen.....and my husband is very happy that we'll have our family kitchen back to normal ;)
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Hello crustdust,why look for a job? Start your own, it will require some if not all of your resources, you can start from home, check your Home Cottage Industry law.You have the experience, have you ever thought of that possibility?:o
I have thought of that possibility but I live in Northern Michigan and I don't think there is a need for it :( We have a big box store in town that sells cakes for dirt cheap plus a local store that also sells cakes very cheap. It happened numerous times that people asked for a quote and then told me "no thank... at xxx I can get a sheetcake for $20".
AI work as a technical insurance advisor for travel insurance, I have 2 kids. I have wed, thu and fridays off and this is when I do my baking. Looking forward to the little 1 starting school as baking and trying to entertain a 3 year old is hard work. Love it though!!!!
AHi I'm a newbie to this site. My full time job is being a cake decorator at walmart. I started cake decorating at 18 worked at a little not my family lol owned bakery. Started out as a bakery clerk and worked up to decorating cakes when the boss was gone and someone wanted a cake or cupcakes decorated. They didn't want to increase my $7.00 an hour pay so I went to factory work for a year hated it. Got hired on by walmart and I have been with them two years now. I am starting on fondant BC at both bakeries they didn't do any fondant cakes. I have a lil girl named peyton that is turning three in a week. So I am making her cupcakes she picked out. I bake and decorate on my off days for my family and during the week and on Saturdays for customers. I am excited about making things with fondant. Walmart and the other company I worked for didn't do anything with fondant. A lot of retail bakeries don't use fondant.
AIt's interesting how many teachers are on here! I am a clerk for a local government office. I also have a 2 year old and a 4 year old so I bake whenever I get a chance. Usually after the kids go to bed on Thursday and Friday. I work five days a week and have an hour and a half commute so it seems like I never have quite enough time to do anything!
I am a receptionist part time at a Clinic and a married mother of three. 2 boys, 15 and 9 and a beautiful daughter who is 6 years old. I usually bake wed or thursdays, depending on the cake orders!
I am a stay at home/homeschooling mom of 5. I put my caking on the back burner while I was pregnant with the most recent (now 2 months old), and am so excited to get back into it. I was hoping to open a store front this year, but new baby changed my plans. I currently operate under a Cottage Food Law, planning to remodel our detached shop into a commercial kitchen and offer appointment only.
I'm currently a stay at home mom, in my previous life I was in international finance and banking. I'm hoping to start a cake business sometime soon, in the meantime I'm looking for decorating jobs at the local grocery stores and cake shops but nobody is hiring :(
I'm fairly new to CC... hello! I'm a full-time medical technologist, specializing in a field called flow cytometry - basically, I analyze patients' blood/bone marrow/lymph nodes/etc to determine if they have cancer, and if they do, what kind it is and how involved it is. It's a really interesting job. I'm never bored. But it's also a very hard job some days, especially the pediatric cases - or the rare cases where I personally know the patient.
I don't have a lot of free time... so cakes can easily take up a whole week of evenings. This week I'm working on my first wedding cake and I've put in 4+ hours after work every night this week. Definitely not something I can take on seriously right now... just as a side hobby. :-)
I work full time in the IT side of a big telecommunications company. I usually bake after work and over weekends. Try to make the fondant toppers etc in advance but sometimes only the night before. My kitchen is very small but I manage somehow. I am an administrator on the Fault Logging System
We are a couple doing the cakes as a hobbie. It's not, by far, our work area since we're an architect and a high-school teacher. We would love to embrace cake design as a job, but it's impossible arround here but it just doesn't pay off. Maybe in other country it does, and we would mind moving there, but it just doesn't append like that :D
I am the current wedding cake decorator at busy b's bakery in tucson az, just today though, i was hired for decorating at village bakehouse! I work full time as a decorator, and will likely continue. I have also contracted a short amount of time to another bakery in town, and hope that within the next two years to become part of a special focused group of women bakers and artists looking to start our own sustainable bakery. Primarily i will continue decorating cakes until my hands are aged and its hard to lay smooth scrollwork.
Hi Everyone!
Beside being a wife and wife to a 7y/o my third job is a Social Worker for a Mental Health Clinical.
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Kate,
OMG, It is!! How are you doing today! Happy Sunday!
happy sunday to you too cake buddy
small world got smaller huh
I am a wife, mother of 3 and a paralegal. I do most of my baking at nights or on the weekends (when the kids don't have their sports to do). Would love to be able to leave my job and start baking full time!!!!!!
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