Externship first week
June 13, 2008
pixiecakes
Tags: work
So I just started my externship at a local bakery out east. So far I really like it there. While I’m not making wedding cakes and other great and brilliant masterpieces, I’m learning and working my way up to being able to do things with perfection. I love all my co-workers, and my boss, while sometimes irks me (who’s doesn’t) is really a great person to learn from.
So far I’ve made a bunch of cookies, blondies, magic cookie bars (which i never heard of before i made them the other day), washed lotsa dishes, and did alot of prep work. And I’ve learned that I’m tired after working long hrs in the bakery(and my hrs aren’t as long as they should be yet) and I love sitting down. But keep it coming, I want to get better and faster with what I do…and develop more talent then being a minion.
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Rachel | July 27, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Hi, I’m Rachel -friend of Re’s, we met at her wedding!
I hope you don’t mind me commenting! I was just gonna say “welcome to baking” LOL They will put you everywhere, where ever a person is needed but this is SO the best way to be liked LOL
I started, no lie, as a dish washer and doughnut filler. It sucked! LOL But I was 16 and I wanted money. The boss warned me it wasn’t a glamorous job, mind you he was trying to talk me out of it, I had a bit of a goth streak going then.
Anyway I learned baking from the bottom of the ranks and after 6 long years I was baking cakes AND decorating them.
A interesting thing I learned if they like you, they will criticize you. This is a good thing. I at first kinda was like, why (mind you I was a kid off the street, no training) is the boss’s dad, the former owner, always picking on me! But it actually meant he saw potential in me and was helping me. He taught me how to decorate cakes because the person who was the decorator decided to quit (temporarily it turned out) the week of “Night in Venice” a huge cake night! So they asked me if I’d be interested in learning. Talk about being dropped in and told learn to swim!
Now I can not do the fancy fondant stuff, I wish I could, I just haven’t had the time or a place to learn how to do that stuff. Your two tier cake, your final I think? Is beautiful! Absolutely beautiful. I can imagine it took a lot of work and a lot of patience!
Working with customers’ orders takes so much patience! LOL Cause sometimes they want some crazy cakes. If you’re creative and like the challenge, it’s not bad but some people (not me mind you) fall into decorating and don’t seem to really enjoy the crazy unusual orders.
Well I’ve babbled enough on your blog, I hope you don’t mind! LOL I just don’t that man bakery type people online so it’s cool to cross paths with one.
Oh! One last question LOL, what’s the difference between an Externship and an Internship…? LOL
Cheers!
-Cat AKA Twiggy AKA Rachel
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pixiecakes | August 14, 2008 at 4:50 pm
An internship is done while you are still going to school.
An externship (I learned going to ICE) is done after you have completed your classes and graduated. Althou you dont’ get your degree until you finished this. But you do get a graduation ceremony before going to your externship!
Oh and no I don’t mind read/comment away I love knowing other bakers and fellow bloggers.