Professional western pastry chef, please come in. There are many questions to ask.

1. Go to college as much as possible. Although this profession has little to do with academic qualifications, it is always good to have a high degree. Read more books and broaden your horizons. Of course, it's a pity to be a worker after finishing college, but being a teacher in cooking school is easier and better paid than making cakes outside. You can also make your favorite variety every day;

This business is not as interesting as you think. Cooking for family is completely different from cooking for guests. In some shops, this is a manual work, while in others, it is purely manual work. It is produced and copied like a machine every day, which does not give you room to create, let alone develop new varieties.

If you just learn skills and find a job in a proper way, your salary is limited. It is recommended to take a baking certificate. The higher the level, the better (there is a time limit from the advanced level, and you can take the exam for as many years as you want). The certificate level in a good wine shop is linked to your salary;

4. It is not recommended to work in a cake shop or a western pastry shop. Whether it's a chain store, a franchise store or a private store, the salary is not high, and you can't learn much (there are few stores where apprentices can practice in person, and most of them send finished and semi-finished products directly to the factory in the store. Even if it is done on the spot, it is done by the master and watched by the apprentice. It is better to watch videos online and buy tools to practice, so why give people cheap labor);

5. It is best to open your own shop to make a reputation and brand;

6. Salary: Go to baking school, study at school for two years, and practice in a hotel in the third year. Generally speaking, Sino-foreign joint venture hotels or wholly foreign-owned hotels pay more attention to western food and western food, while wholly foreign-owned hotels in China pay more attention to Chinese food. As I said before, certificate level is more important, but qualification is also very important. Fresh graduates, no matter how good the technology is, the salary will not be too high. After deducting five insurances and one gold, they can get less than 3000 (more than 2000, not the basic salary). Unless you have connections and know your own craft very well;

7. Promotion: If it is a hotel bakery, the promotion routes are basically ordinary employees, foreman, deputy chef of bakery (some hotel rooms are separated from bakery) and chef of bakery. If you have the ability, you can also be promoted to executive chef, which is the highest; If it is in the decoration room of a regular cake shop (note that some cake shops don't have decoration rooms, only the bakery and cakes are sent by the factory), the promotion route is not much different. Ordinary employees, foreman/supervisor (different names, same nature, hundreds more than ordinary employees) will basically end, and will not be promoted to positions such as deputy stores and store managers, but only in the frontcourt. Note that the promotion route of hotels or cake shops is only an ideal situation, and some hotels are more complicated. If your immediate boss doesn't leave or make mistakes, you won't have a chance to be promoted; The cake shop is better, because it is a chain, so the possibility of transfer is greater. If you are an ordinary employee of an old shop with good performance, you may be assigned as a foreman and bring new people when you open a new shop, so there are more opportunities. It's just a nice name, and the money hasn't risen much.

That's basically it. You'd better study hard in senior three and think about it after the exam. Don't be distracted.