Intro

22 days ago I resigned from my job as a manager of a small IT development team for a major UK bank. I am a Computer Science graduate, and for the last 7 years of my life I have worked in the Finance IT industry. I have given it all up to become a dessert goddess.

No more will I be part of the 9-6 rat race. The poorly air-conditioned offices, the sardine-tin simulator that is the Tube, the dishwater emitting coffee machines. Goodbye Outlook and 6 million rolling passwords to remember. Farewell to meeting requests and failed cruise control builds. No, my new life as creator of delicious confectionery and pastries beckons like a siren to a jaded sailor.

It's going to be a tough journey. I am a programmer. My language is logic and analysis. I have no experience and no qualifications in any other profession. But still, I have passion and creativity in my blood and these fingers can surely move away from the keyboard and into the mixing bowl.

I have given myself one year. In this year, I will learn the art of patisserie. I will get experience in the trade. I will seek help and knowledge in order for me to be able to open my own shop in which I will sell my creations to the public. I will be my own Alan Sugar - if I don't have the talent I will sack myself and go back to my IT roots.

So it's onward and upward from here!