Baker by Trade

If you could do one thing in your life without the worry of money, family, or priority and solely based on passion, hobby or skill...what would it be?
There's nothing I love more than baking and honestly, it's the only thing that I understand 100%. You add this to that, whisk in two parts of this, fold in, and you get this. I'm pretty sure I'd rather be complimented on my delicious blueberry muffins  than being told I'm beautiful or whatever. I'd rather make someone smile with a pecan bar than with a good joke. It's this way:
When I'm in the kitchen with my ingredients it's either I'm going to make something great or I'll fuck it up and I can just whip up another batch. There's no maybe or I don't know..... it's just this way or that and I've fallen in love with the art. I've just finished baking twenty-four blueberry muffins and have swabbed the edge of the doughy bowl with my finger leaving nothing behind. My black jeans are powder white and my forearms are crusted with dried flower and egg mixtures. I think maybe I've been studying the wrong thing in school and trying to seek out a lucrative escape to this depressed country, when what I should be doing is pursuing what I'm good at, as should you. If you're good at it then chances are the best outcomes will eventually come to you right? The Anthropological field is booming, but competitive, the magazine journalism world is full of yuppies looking for their big break, and the baking world is full of talented, competitive yuppies looking to rake in the dough with their cupcake ATMS, T.V. shows and mom& pop shops. I just want to fucking bake. I want to bake simple things, complicated things, share them ,eat them, get fat on them , sell them, and market them to everyone because I love it. I think what's most intimidating is putting your hobby on your sleeve to find out that there are people wayyyy better than you...but that's with everything really. You gotta jump in and say fuck it I'm doing this for me and maybe, eventually, for someone else.
I want a bakery someday. I want a small bakery that my friends and I work in and sell fresh cinnamon rolls, sticky buns, pies, cupcakes, macaroons, muffins, brownies, take-home diy crusts that people can take home and fill with their fillings of choice, breads, and cookies. I want kids to beg their parents to go to my bakery after dinner or for a snack. I want a delivery service that goes out locally and online, which will send over your favorite pastry in thirty minutes or less - fresh and hot. I want people to go on first dates there, I want Yelp! to praise it and people to "like" us on Facebook. I want to be a baker. Do what you're good at/ what you love and make everything else a hobby.