Not sure if I chose the right.. +reps?

[Blinger]

Alrighty. Like I posted in my spam thread which seems to only tell you the time (oh yay..) I am in a pickle, the person I usually talk to when I'm feeling like this is currently not available (for a while) so excuse me for posting it here! Also, this is a bit of a more mature post from me I reckon.

So I've been working as a baker for 3 and a quarter years and I love it to death. It's amazing what I can do and actually how good I am at it. I've shown a few of my things on here in the past but yeah that's not the point. The problem is I am not sure what I'm actually wanting to do? I feel like baking is getting me nowhere in life socially (going out, meeting people etc.) It's definitely not the financial side since I earn more than enough to make me happy. I just feel that choosing baking was not a good idea? I mean, all my mates work Monday - Friday, from about 8am-4pm or something like that, normal hours, in other words. I work from Tuesday 12AM -> Saturday 8am or so, various depending on week in, week out. This means that I have a dual sleeping pattern, get home from work stay up for 30 minutes, go to bed for 3-4 hours and then get up again for 5 hours or something and then sleep again until I have to wake back up...
WHICH in turn means that going out at night is dead hard. I imagine only night shift workers would understand this though. It also means that I am wide awake now after everyone has gone to sleep and have a shed load of thinking time.

Bah, that went majorly off-topic and can't really remember what I was thinking while I went for my walk to Micky D's before..
Oh yeah, I just feel that apart from baking, I couldn't work as anything else? I mean, as a few of you guys know I want to move to ze UK in half a year or something and don't know how easy it would be to get a baking job there with my experience. But if I don't what else can a person like me get a job as? What do "normal" people who aren't tradies/stuck on computers all day work as?

NOW I ALWAYS SUCK WITH WRITING THREADS LIKE THIS, IT ALWAYS SOUNDS GOOD IN MY HEAD BUT **** HITS THE FAN WHEN IT COMES TO TYPING IT UP! Sorry, bros.

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[Samantha]

Can't the bakery change your hours at all or are they fixed? If you get what I mean!

[Blinger]

Nope, because I now work in a supermarket (not my ideal bakery but it's different from my previous one and somewhat better, well, a lot easier!) and like most bakeries it's important to have bread out by the time customers come in, which is 6am for us.

[Demi]

You'd have better luck in the UK, ASDA (Walmart) is 24/7 which means that you could work various shift patterns... Not sure about wages...

TotalJobs is a good place to look.

[Eric]

If you baking is your thing then you should keep doing it. Maybe start your own bakery? get a personal or business loan from the bank? or maybe if you know someone who is wealthy and get some investment from them?

[lawrawrrr]

Both private bakers and supermarket bakers are usually looking for experienced staff so I don't think you'd have SUCH a hard job, not sure. Might be easier than I'm thinking tho, idk. I've seen a lot of advertisements where I live recently!!

As for the hours, is it possible to shift your sleeping pattern so you're awake at say 8pm-2am? Like sleep for the majority of the day and just get a few hours kip before work. If you change it a little bit it could actually make a huge impact.

Unless I'm completely misreading what you're saying.

[Blinger]

Okay awesome! I've found extremely limited baking jobs online in the UK, and Australia actually, but I'm hoping it's better when I arrive.
laura; Nope, not possible. I'm awake from 10:40pm - 9am currently, and then again from 12pm-5pm or so. I just reflect back over my career choice and think I buggered up by not doing a "traditional trade" like plumbing, carpenter, builder, electrician, roof tiler, brick layer, landscaper etc. But now that I live out of home and I'm 21 I don't think I can just leave my current path and start something else?
EricYong!; I'm too young for that (21) and I haven't got enough experience with pastries yet and that'd take even more time away from my social life! Businesses are pretty much 24/7 :(

[LiquidLuck.]

About your job, not sure what I can tell you that wasn't said yet.

About your social life, nothing keeps you from going out during the day.. If you go to sleep at 6am (just one out later) it gives you at least 1 hour and a half to go out with friends if they end their work at 4pm S: If you make it worth it, it can be almost as fun as going out at night..

[Blinger]

About your job, not sure what I can tell you that wasn't said yet.

About your social life, nothing keeps you from going out during the day.. If you go to sleep at 6am (just one out later) it gives you at least 1 hour and a half to go out with friends if they end their work at 4pm S: If you make it worth it, it can be almost as fun as going out at night..

Of course nothing stops me going out solo during the day, that's a given. I can do whatever I want in that time, in which I usually spend it doing general **** from riding my motorbike to shopping to reading a book (when I finally find a good one) to "working out" to watching TV.. anything! I can't really just go to bed one hour later than 5pm, that's not even giving me 6 hours sleep at night which is not enough to work an 8 hour shift with!
My mates don't tend to hang out straight after work anyway, they do stuff after 6pm. I live with one of them and he's home sometimes during the day depending on his job but yeah, because he has a split work pattern he usually goes and sleeps or something!

argh :frust:

[LiquidLuck.]

Not even 6 hours from sleep? o.o from my maths, you must live far away from your workplace..

And without wanting to get you more frustrated then how you seem with your ''facewall'', I guess you'll have to make a choice from what do you think it's more important to you right now: your professional live, or your social one. S:

[lawrawrrr]

Okay awesome! I've found extremely limited baking jobs online in the UK, and Australia actually, but I'm hoping it's better when I arrive.
@laura (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=61966); Nope, not possible. I'm awake from 10:40pm - 9am currently, and then again from 12pm-5pm or so. I just reflect back over my career choice and think I buggered up by not doing a "traditional trade" like plumbing, carpenter, builder, electrician, roof tiler, brick layer, landscaper etc. But now that I live out of home and I'm 21 I don't think I can just leave my current path and start something else?
@EricYong! (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=79964); I'm too young for that (21) and I haven't got enough experience with pastries yet and that'd take even more time away from my social life! Businesses are pretty much 24/7 :(

if you think about it, in a few years time all your mates will have grown up with proper jobs and not want to go out proper partying either. Yeah maybe a quick drink at the pub or something, but not hardcore partying like they used to/do now. End of the day; if you like your job don't quit it for your social life as at the end of the day it's work and not friends who will get you through life!

[Demi]

You're only 21, it's not actually too late to try something else.
Why not go do a culinary course at a University? You have the experience.

[dbgtz]

Well in the end it's up to you, would you prefer 5 years of a social life with 40 years doing a job you never really liked, or perhaps not as great as a social life as you'd expect but doing something you love for 40 years.

[Blinger]

Not even 6 hours from sleep? o.o from my maths, you must live far away from your workplace..

And without wanting to get you more frustrated then how you seem with your ''facewall'', I guess you'll have to make a choice from what do you think it's more important to you right now: your professional live, or your social one. S:
Okay that was wrong, from 6pm-10:40pm is not even 5 hours. You gotta remember, you don't (well I don't anyway) instantly fall asleep, it takes maybe 15minutes or so for me? And then there are times when I'm not tired at all so it takes more than an hour.
Also, yep, I live minimum 20 minutes from my work, and sometimes up to 1 hour away by car.


if you think about it, in a few years time all your mates will have grown up with proper jobs and not want to go out proper partying either. Yeah maybe a quick drink at the pub or something, but not hardcore partying like they used to/do now. End of the day; if you like your job don't quit it for your social life as at the end of the day it's work and not friends who will get you through life!
That's true, they might not want to go out partying and the such but they'll be able to go to the local watering hole and have a drink or two and I'll struggle, again because of the work hours. To put it all in perspective, it's like a "normal" person going to the pub at 2am before a work day.


You're only 21, it's not actually too late to try something else.
Why not go do a culinary course at a University? You have the experience.
Hmm, thinking of it like that I'm not, it's just I've got accustomed to having a decent income (I think it'd be about 500 quid a week?) and seeing as I won't be able to live alone on an apprentice wage anymore I don't think it is feasible. I'd enjoy doing something like butchering I like to think. Or even something like the army (my ideal job tbh right now, but medically i'd be a liability!) or working on the docks?


Well in the end it's up to you, would you prefer 5 years of a social life with 40 years doing a job you never really liked, or perhaps not as great as a social life as you'd expect but doing something you love for 40 years.

Must be a young persons thought who has had a restricted social life for the past 3.5 years but yeah, i'd take that. Go out and see your mates every week or be in bed by 6-7pm? What would you choose at the age of 21?
Baking is probably one of the easiest thing you could do, it's dead repetitive and you only need to remember a few details (mixing times, dough sizes, moulder settings, oven times).
I like to think of it like nailing down 30 nails in quick repetition, and then going to pick up 30 more nails. Repeat that 10 times and you've done the equivalent of 300 rolls.. haha.


I sound like I enjoy ******** about my job but I actually really love it.

[MissAlice]

We work to live and not live to work. We are also expected to work for a long time, unless we win the lottery!

As you say you are twenty-one and are working in a profession where a very high percentage of positions of work in your industry are going to be early morning starts. As already suggested why not find a course, that will give you added job opportunities?

You are young and should have a social life, so now is a good time to think about your options. You talk about the difficulties of going out with mates, so having a relationship must also be difficult, unless they work the same shift patterns as you do.

Good luck :)