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

[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; 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

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