Thank you! And my baking skills make me my best money when I’m baking pastries because I get paid more per piece than I do for breads and rolls.
BUT, my most reliable work is always for breads and rolls. Not every resort or restaurant is all so hot for fresh pastries but they all love fresh bread and rolls. My thing is my sourdough starter. It’s mine and when I started it in school the teachers all said it was special and I’ve kept it going ever since.
Boom. there you go. A small investment company I previously worked for once looked at buying a relatively small ($6-8 million year sales) commercial bakery. A nice, stable biz, but we passed because once the owner and his partner retired (one was quite ill), we had no viable plan for management. I learned later it was sold to two men with backgrounds that sound similar to yours. I don't know exactly how they financed it, but the money came to them. I think they must be doing well - I see their trucks all over town.
Watch, learn the state-of-the-art, be trustworthy and these sorts of opportunities to control your own future, will constantly appear before you.
“My thing is my sourdough starter”
How does one start and keep a sourdough? It sounds like a skill worth having.