am I too late switching to baking at 34, with a home loan running?

Saurabh, 34 is not late. A meaningful share of every batch we teach is in their thirties, and career switchers often move faster than younger students - they already know how to manage their time and take feedback without ego.

The honest trade-off on sequencing: full-time intensive training compresses the pain into a short window (our professional programme in Delhi runs 4-6 months) but it needs runway. Part-time stretches the timeline and splits your attention during exactly the phase when repetition builds the skill. Your suspicion about doing both badly is well founded.

The middle path a lot of people take - keep earning while you close the fundamentals gap and find out if you enjoy production work under deadline, like Gurpreet did. Then commit to one concentrated block of full-time training once you're sure. Fourteen months of runway is workable for a 4-6 month programme with time on the other side to find your footing.

If it helps to talk through your actual numbers instead of the general case, come sit in on a free demo class at Saket or call +91 99711 27210. We'd rather tell you honestly the timing is wrong than sell you a seat you can't afford.