Research and My Development

Anyone else out there obsessed with opening a bakery? Because I am seriously obsessed and I need fellow obsessers!

I've been digging around Craigslist, calling friends in the business, leaving messages left and right - all with the hope that some passageway will open up. Discount Hobart mixers, dough sheeters, ovens, etc. are all for sale online but the lack of funds keeps them at bay.

I've made enough money so that I can get a decent Web site up but I don't know if I have enough cash to get a logo started or anything else that's marketable. It's hard to know how to prioritize. Many people might say that buying an oven should be my first move but I honestly don't agree. I believe that the logo and Web site are more important. I can always rent a kitchen and have my Web site up as advertising.

Since I am doing all of this brainstorming by myself it's difficult to focus on any one thing. Part of my food costing class includes costing out all of my recipes so that they can be sold in a bakery. This is good for me to stay focused so long as I keep telling myself it's homework. My other class talks about finding the low price for everything so that's a good thing in regard to budgeting for opening my shop. But it still doesn't help me from getting all jumbled.

It seems that while I may have friends willing to throw money my way, I still need to be responsible and learn all that I can before I accept their generous gifts. It wasn't long ago, two years now, when I was living off credit cards and telling myself that someday I would get my old job back and life would be easy again. I never want to go back to that and I also never want to put someone in that position. I have a profound respect for money and its role in our lives. I never want to disrespect it.