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Hi Michal! I am retired, but I spent my working life doing advertising, commercial art and sales, nothing cake related. I also painted portraits for many, many years.

I have a degree in chemical engineering, and also a degree in pastry arts… I had the chance to work in both fields. But I found my real vocation at home, my true happiness was found homeschooling 5 children. I still make cakes, pastries, etc for my family and community, but only as a hobby.

Hi Michal! I’m a grandma, retired, and do cakes for family & friends. What little money I do make usually goes back into tools or supplies for my next order & experimenting with recipes. I find it very difficult to come up with a price at the time of people placing orders or shortly thereafter. I’m getting better as times goes by. I also do get stressed hoping things turn out like I picture them in my head. Happy to say so far everyone has been extremely happy with what I’ve done. I’m in a couple of groups that are great for confidence & knowledge building. Cakes Decor being one, for sure.

My “real job” that pays my bills…..I work for the State Police. A lot of my customers are fellow employees. My most popular cake is one shaped like a trooper hat.

I used to work a hairdresser then beauty consultant, as my kids are now grown up, I decided to do what I’ve always wanted to do, and that’s make cakes! So it’s now a full time job for me.

Hey Michal
Thanks for the new forum. Like fellow member Guppy, I too am retired, a grandma that makes cakes mostly for my family and grandchildren. Make the very occasional paid cake. And I’m a Icing Smiles (Canada) sugar Angel. I’ve participated in a few cake Collaborations as well. I was a preventative dental assistant, then receptionist for many years before I had my children. Then when I went back to work, after staying home a few years raising my children, I had a career change. I was a psw (personal support worker) for 20 years, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Hi
I am into teaching Baking and Cosmetics,I am also an Vedic Astrologer and give personal consultation .I love decorating and now my current interest is wired sugar dolls

My main job? NOTHING:) I Also am a retired grandma but my family never supported my decorating:( At different times I’ve had two bakeries so all my baking went to the general public I no longer bake/decorate as I have a tiny kitchen, live w/daughter who gets upset about the “mess” the few times I tried so now my baking is limited to sweet breads that I give to my coworkers — I work 1day a week as a demonstrator at a Costco werehouse store —on disability for a work injury the past 1&1/2 yrs :( I participate on cake boards sharing my 40 yrs experience, to keep my fingers in suger & flour

I am a retired Grandma now but spend most of my life in retail management and sales. I am enjoying the world of decorating as it is fluid and is constantly changing with new ideas and innovative products.

I am a full time insurance broker. I’ve been making cakes for 10 + years for family and friends and have loved every minute of it. I call it my stress reliever from the day job lol. I only get to make cakes in the evenings and weekends so I have had some extremely long nights getting a cake finished on time but it is always pure joy to see the final result and I surprise even myself sometimes with what the end result is :) I’ve dabbled in all kinds of art forms throughout my life but this medium allows me to be able to keep creating cakes because it is edible and everyone always has another birthday, anniversary, etc. I absolutely love seeing the work of other cake artists (they are all amazing!!!!) from around the world and I love that you can continually learn and try new things in creating cakes.

Hi, Michal! I really find time for cakes with just a handle, since I’m busy. I work as a teacher of Slovak language at primary school. I got to cakes 6 years ago after my daughter’s wedding. It was not easy to find a confectioner that would bake a beautiful wedding cake – the decoration of the wedding table. Managed to. The cake charmed me and I thought I wanted to learn it. And since then I bake mainly for the family and my friends. I always look forward to every new cake and I enjoy decorating it. Well, CakesDekor became my daily companion and inspirator. ❤️

Ahoj, Michal! Na torty si nájdem čas naozaj len úchytkom, nakoľko som zamestnaná. Pracujem ako učiteľka slovenského jazyka na základnej škole. K tortám som sa dostala pred 6 rokmi po svadbe mojej dcéry. Nebolo ľahké nájsť cukrárku, ktorá by upiekla krásnu svadobnú tortu – ozdobu svadobného stola. Podarilo sa. Torta ma očarila a povedala som si, že sa to chcem naučiť. A odvtedy pečiem hlavne pre rodinu a známych. Vždy sa teším na každú novú tortičku a užívam si jej zdobenie. No a CakesDekor sa stal mojím každodenným spoločníkom a inšpirátorom. ❤️

I work in Hr as an Administrator Assistant. I’ve owned my own cake business in the past and a family matter came up that I needed to stop for awhile. Now I do cakes on the side and dream of cakes all day. I’m trying to get things in order to start back up and do more.

Score 2 for chemical engineers – Regina Coeli. I Started baking a big fancy cake for my kids birthday each year – whatever they wanted but I now find myself being asked about cakes by many others that have eaten my cake at parties. Took a break from ChE in the last year or so, so I’ve been able to do more.

Hi Michal, thank you for all your effort making this site better and better!
I’m a grandmother and I’ve been making cakes for family and friends since I quitted my job as accountant. I feel blessed to have the opportunity to make cakes whenever I like, just as a hobby.
Have a nice day :)

Hi Michal!
I am a structural engineer working as an engineer but cake decorating taking much of my time so i cant say its just a hobby or side work as its my passion and what i love to do most of time 💕

Hellou

Before that, I was just housewife. Cakes was just hoby, and I worked as restoraunt chef. My cake love growe so much, and I quit so I can make all theese cakes. And finally, we open our own bakery. We started last year and I’m so glad that I can all the time do what I actually love. ❤

Hi Michal!
I have been a painter for 20 years, since 2013 I teach cookie decorating classes.
I am also a wife and a mom of a ten years old sweet boy.
I feel so blessed because I always had the opportunity to turn my hobbies into a real, remunerative work.
Have a lovely day,
Evelin ❤️

Hi michal, nice all the new changes.
Baking cakes and my highteas, workshops in cakes is what we life from. For about 6 years now.
Its working hard but so much fun, seeing always happy faces.
Its so great all Ive done before comes together in making cakes.
Have a happy day 🤗🥂

I started my cake decorating adventure in the 1970’s as a hobby, by the early 1980s I ran it as a part time business in the evening (I worked in an office 9.00 – 5.00), by the late 1980s it was my full time job – making cakes to order, teaching cake decoration, demonstrating cake decorating and writing articles for magazines. I have written two books on the subject which were sold worldwide (one is now out of print). I am still earning my income in the same way but teaching is what I do the most of now – I teach all aspects of sugarcraft, but Royal Icing is my passion.

Hi Michal, I work as a designer, design houses and hand paint on clothes :)
decorating the cake i love, it’s my hobby ♥♥♥

Hi Michal,
I’m a stay-at-home mom. Decorating cookies is a hobby but I would love to make it a profession. I hope that one day I will be able to attract a client base so that I can both sell and teach.

Hello,
I used to work in an office for almost 20 years. I stopped 9 years ago, when a health problem came up. After that I decided I had to stop being so stressed up all the time . Since then I spent my time taking care of everything and everyone at home. The last years I have and my home business, which of course, is making cakes, cookies etc

Hi Michal, hi everyone!!
In addition to my job as a cookie design teacher , I’m also a restorer and a decorator. I used acrilic colors or edible paints depending on what I have to decorate. In case of cookies I use Royal Icing, whereas when I restore I apply stucco where and when necessary. I enjoy teaching very much because I find it inspiring and it gives me the opportunity to communicate my passion to others.

Finally got some time to read your answers. It seems like we have all kinds of professions here, from artists, teachers to police officers. It’s amazing how cake decorating can connect people together.

kakeladi: that’s so sad that someone with 40 years of experience can’t do what she love. I hope you’ll get more opportunities to show your skills. Good luck.

Daphne: I’m glad we have some really great bakers/cake decorators from Slovakia here as well ;). You are doing great job!!

Up until 2 years ago, I was a teacher’s assistant in a special education classroom helping special needs children. Two years ago, my husband (Law Enforcement Officer) retired. We bought a deli so I would have a commercial kitchen to bake. I left my school job and we’ve been running the deli ever since. It takes up a lot of time and I am reevaluating my cake business. I will be 59 this summer, and I have been working 7 days a week for nearly 2 years. It’s time to cut back a little, I just need to figure where to cut back. I am a grandma too, number 3 is on the way! I love cake decorating and the art that goes into it and I love making birthday cakes for my grans.

Hi Michal!
I graduated in Accountancy and Finance. I worked 20 years
as an economist and for the last 4 years I work in IT. For about 8 years baking and
decorating cakes has become my passion, and for the last 4 years I gave this passion to my husband as well.
Thank you for this site!

Hi Michal and everybody,
I’m analytical chemist working at the state laboratoty doing pesticide residue analysis (mostly of food, but also other matrices, such as flowers). So, I’m well aware how commercial flowers are treated with a lot of pesticides in large quantities. It is therefore my opinion that they are not suitable for contact with food items (such as cakes, unless protected somehow from possible transfer of pesticides to cake). I enjoy baking cakes, but mostly I enjoy decorating them with sugar flowers, wafer paper flowers, hand-painted decorations etc. I hope that one day I could start my own cake bussiness :-). Best wishes, Darina

I was a Chemistry and Physics teatcher but left my job to dedicate myself to cake decorating.

Hi :) Cakes are my hobby :) I love art and especially sweet art :) but my main job .. heh.. I am a psychologist :) I am working with children and their parents, also with teachers :) (my friends who know me my whole life can tell you – I am a little bit crazy .. love to listen rock/metal music, love monsters, love to ride my motorcycle but I love also romantic films as Lord of the rings, Harry Potter :D (and Pretty woman :D) It´s me :)

heeey :-) my job is the cake designer/decorator yeeey and happy
It’s a little bit harder now but still working

Hi Michal,
4 years ago I decided to bake the cakes for my family. At the beginning they were simple cakes but now they are very detailed. I am a systems engineer and work in the insurance industry for a long time 😊