Nine years in IT and I'm seriously considering the switch to pastry. Everyone I ask gives me a completely different number and honestly half of them are either selling me a course or trying...
Topic
Career & Income
Salaries, job roles, and what the pastry career path actually looks like.
34, home loan running, job I'm competent at but stopped caring about. Been baking on weekends for four years and it's the only part of my week I look forward to. The fear isn't the work, it'...
Self-taught, five years of fairly serious home baking, no formal hospitality qualification. Every job posting says "degree preferred" and I can't tell if that's a hard filter or copy-paste...
I finish my course in a few months and everyone keeps saying the first year is brutal but nobody describes it concretely. What does a normal day actually consist of? How much is real pastry...
Thinking about doing this properly?
Truffle Nation's professional programme runs at our Delhi (Saket) campus — hands-on, small batches, and built around actually earning from what you bake.
- 4–6 month professional programme, Delhi campus
- 1:8 chef-to-student ratio — real bench time, not demos
- Full eggless curriculum alongside classic French technique
- 400+ students placed and running their own bakeries
- Business & pricing strategy built into the course