So this is going to be a little hard. Not going back to school, that is something that I have been looking forward to for quite some time. What I’m actually talking about is writing this blog. I have tried twice before to write a blog. First I tried a site about pop-culture, the next was a baking column writing recipes that I have tried and tested. The thing about a blog is that you actually have to write it. My problem was that I would think-up grandiose ideas for the blog, then when it came time to write, get intimated by the work ahead of me and just give up. You can have the greatest ideas in the world, but if you don’t put the effort into doing something with them, nothing will be accomplished and those ideas will eventually just fade away.
But then last week I started to think about returning to school, and what a great time it would be to start a weekly (or maybe every couple of weeks) column on what I have learned as I go through school. Sorry, for those of you who don’t know, Monday I started school to become a Pastry Chef. By the time I graduate school, in about 16 months I will (hopefully) have a diploma in Baking & Pastry Arts Mgt, and will have some time under my belt as an Apprentice Baker and be on my way to become a Pastry Chef/Patisserie.
I am going back to school after spending several years (about 10) working within the Interactive Marketing industry. In between marketing gigs, I would work at various restaurants, pubs and catering companies as a waiter/bartender. This is something I still plan to do this throughout my time in school. So why am I leaving the wonderful world of marketing, well that’s a longer story. During my time in the industry I worked at 7 different companies, as well spent 2 years getting my marketing degree. I left each company for various reasons, whether I was laid off, found a better job or what usually happened suffered from several cases of foot-in-mouth disease and got myself fired. See I sort of feel into marketing, it was something that I did moderately well, but not really something that I had a true passion for. Don’t get me wrong, I am proud of the work I did, I just didn’t know if I could do that for the rest of my life.
After a while it just seemed that baking was the right option, to both to me and my friends. A very good friend Andree said, “Baking is perfect for you, you don’t have to be around a lot of people, you get to be creative and you like to stay up late”. I would tend to agree with her.
So I hope you enjoy this blog, I will try and write as often as I can. But most of all I hope I have an amazing time over the next year and a bit.
keep posting, i like your blog!!