06/17/2026
Years ago, I left a stable engineering career to become a pastry chef.
What I imagined:
✨ Creating beautiful cakes
✨ Working weddings
✨ Making edible art
What nobody told me:
🧽 The dishes never end.
🥣 There are always more mixing bowls.
🥚 Eggs somehow end up everywhere.
🫠 Buttercream has a way of finding every surface in the kitchen.
My clients see the finished cake.
My family sees me standing at the sink at midnight wondering where all these dishes came from.
Any small business owners here whose job looks glamorous online but completely chaotic behind the scenes? 😂
Tell me what your family thinks you do for a living.