The positives of learning things online. Share recipes, hacks, lessons, or any knowledge you learned for the first from social media or someone online. You can recommend social media accounts that are worth checking out too.
When I was quite young, my mom had a restaurant, and every day I came back from school, I would always go to the shop to stay with her, so I could help her sell, when she was out of the shop or decided to go back home and do some chores and I guess that was where my interest and passion for cooking and baking started.
That was how I grew interested in baking, and since I knew I would not be given the chance to go to catering school, I put my phone and time to good use, I started watching on YouTube, and Instagram how to make and bake different types of confectionery without the knowledge of my parents.
Luckily, I got admission that period and I had to move to another state because of schooling, so, I invested more of my time in learning and practicing my baking skills in my free periods. When a few of my friends had a taste of my baked snacked one day, they urged me to start baking, so I could sell it in school and use it as a pastime since I was always at home, and never loved going out.
I started the first day, in a small quantity and it got sold out, and that was how I began my confectionery journey. Always watching one or two things on the Internet and putting them into practice, so I can have a better and unique result from those buying from me and that was how I started making money as a student even though my parents never failed to send me money, it became an added advantage.
I decided to dive into learning how to bake and cook most intercontinental and continental dishes from the internet too and I started cooking for a few people around and also for a few of my colleagues and I get paid. Attached myself to a caterer and that was how started cooking for occasions. I usually did get calls to render my services and I was happy and proud of myself and what I was doing, to think I learned the online.
My dream was and is so big that I started saving money I got from selling my snacks, and outside jobs to get a few confectionery equipment that could make my job a little easier and less stressful. I got my sealer for sealing my peanut, chinchin, or cake nylon, which makes my work easier and neat, I also got a better dispenser, to help make my dough look neat and presentable and I got a cutter. I almost bought an oven, the one that comes with a cooker but unfortunately, I didn't have enough money to complete the amount they were selling at a discount, now, when I think back I wish I had gotten it and maybe paid on installment.
I have my different sizes of pans stacked for us whenever I wish to use them even though I no longer bake as often as I wish or used to because of my current job and because I have a lot on my plate regardless, I will never forget that baking which I learned online was my first source of income.
I am not just a baker, I am a good cook and a better cook as a result of what I learned online, now, I mostly do my baking or cooking when any of my family members or relatives needs my help cooking on their occasion or needs some baked stuff for their occasion too.
I miss baking, but for now, I am concentrating on my career and some other things, maybe when I am stable enough, I can go back to baking but for now, I am doing something else, and that makes me very busy.
This is my entry to Hive Naija Weekly Prompt | Edition 61