Johnson_Career




 * 1) The type of career I want to peruse in is cupcake design. The three illustrations above show what the job would be doing and that is making cupcakes and designing them.
 * 2) Explain the career or (careers) you are considering for this project. What does a person do for this job?
 * 3) I am considering doing a cupcake designer or a cake designer. This person bakes sweets and make creative things out of them as seen above. They have a fun time making all different sorts of sweets and get to try them out. Can it get any better?
 * 4) What kind of skills or talents are required for this career?
 * 5) Some skills or talent you have to have for the job is that you have to be good at decorating and be good at knowing how to make the cake or cupcake you have. You also have to know how to take orders because when someone calls and tells you what they want they are going to tell you exactly what they want and you have to fulfill their needs.
 * 6) What schooling is required? Where do they have this sort of program? 2 year, 4 year, tech school, (liberal arts) college, specialized (art school)?
 * 7) School that is required is some sore of culinary/ pastry school but it isn't required you just have to be good at baking things and decorating them, but if you want to get a good job you school would be something that is going to get you a good job.
 * 8) What kind of salary can you expect in this field? Starting? Mid-Career?
 * 9) When starting in Cake designing you only make 24,000 dollars a year and if you have been there for a long time and you are head manager you will make around 41,000 or more. You can make between 24,000 and 41,000.
 * 10) How do you get started? Do you have to have a portfolio or internship or both or???
 * 11) To get started you have to go into bakers and talk to them, ask them what they require you do have. You have to build a portfolio of everything you have made by pictures and if you go through school you can get an internship through the school.
 * 12) What will a typical day be like in this field?
 * 13) A typical day is that you will be there a long amounts of times sometimes over night trying to get customers things sent out and be done. They don't really have set hours to end on because you can't leave with a cake or cupcakes in the oven. They work on their own schedule most of the time.
 * 14) What do you plan to do for your self-promotional piece?
 * 15) I am going to do a little box and it will have a cupcake cut out in it and it will pop out and tell all the information about me and what I do.
 * 16) Explain how your idea illustrates this career
 * 17) This idea illustrates cake design or cupcake design because I am showing things i can do on a cupcake and if you can do it on there a cake is just a bigger canvas.
 * 18) List resources you used for research during this part of the project. Make sure they are active links. Google and other search engines are not resources.
 * 19) http://www.indeed.com/salary/Cake-Decorator.html
 * 20) http://en.allexperts.com/q/Desserts-747/specialty-cake-design.htm