I Decorate Cakes Now Too

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The short story is I got a job as a cake decorator.

Here's the whole story:   

    On Thursday I went to the grocery store and saw that they were hiring a cake decorator (there was a sign on the door) so I asked about it and told them I'm a sculptor, substitute teacher and will be teaching a college class on sculpting in march and I use an airbrush quite regularly like I know they do on cakes because I used to decorate cakes at walmart for a few months some years back, which I also told them that. So she said to talk to a specific lady who would be in 6 am to 2 the next day (Friday). Since I had a sub job Friday, I showed up at a little after 6 and talked to her, gave her my application and told her everything I had told the first lady. She was excited and asked me to come take a sort of cake decorating test Saturday. So that night I went out to walmart and bought some cake decorating tips and stuff to practice frosting stuff since it'd been years since I'd done it. I came in Saturday and iced a cake for them. I did well on the base icing and the border but when it came to making the roses (specifically transferring them to the cake) it came out bad >.< so I made a rose directly on it (which wasn't that great). Then I had to do some writing... it came out ok until I got to the Day part of 'Happy Valentine's Day'... by then I ran out of room so Day was kind of small at the bottom >.<
      I explained I was really out of practice and I had gotten stuff to practice the night before but it wasn't enough. She was really friendly and said she expected me to be out of practice and hired me on the spot anyway. So my first day of work will be tomorrow! So in addition to the 3 school districts I sub for and the college classes I'll be teaching on Thursday nights beginning at the end of March, that will put me up to technically 5 jobs I have filled out a W-4 form for plus the sculpting I sell as well.... so I definitely won't be accepting new commissions after I finish the ones I have. I'll make stuff to sell on ebay when I have time to make things. I'm hoping to get the decorator work schedule worked out so that I can do cakes  at night after school so I can still substitute a lot, cus that pays pretty nice. 
    The reason I even applied to the cake decorator job is because I've been really stressed about what the heck i'll do for money when school is out for the summer, also I have student teaching for my bachelor's degree coming up which will require me to teach a class for 3 months... which will make it impossible for me to sub.. so i'll basically be doing the same thing as I do as a sub.. only I won't get paid for it *head desk*. But with the cake decorating, I can get steady pay when I work that job (though not paid as well as subbing). I like doing sculpture commissions.. but let's face it.. it's not steady. I can't depend on getting paid to be able to pay my bills, so I have to get a day job (or 5). Like I said, I'll continue to make sculptures, so keep an eye on my stuff for things I might put up on ebay.







Custom candy prices

$1.25 each for small round suckers with edible images.
$2.25 each for large round suckers with edible images.

For regular non-edible image candy

Small round and American flag sucker (I got these specifically with the 4th of July coming up in mind, they're kind of small though) - 75 cents each

Heart suckers and small star suckers - $1 each

Large star and round suckers :$1.50

Loose candy $1.50 an ounce

Candy made from my own custom molds - (I'll have to get back to you on this one after I buy some mold material and make a few molds so I can calculate a cost price)

If you'd like some candy please let me know! I can get just about any flavor you would want. Shipping to you will cost extra. The shipping price will vary depending on how much candy you want.




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Lerouge-mystique's avatar
Damn, what a super hero. haha! Five Jobs!
Congrats getting such a fun job! Keep fighting the fight to stay happy and awesomeI am a dummy!