The Cupcake Philosophy

How is making a cupcake similar to a career?

1) First, you will need a cook book or proper instructions on how to bake one. That's the same as the first day you arrive at your desired school and filling up the necessary forms.

2) After that, you need to purchase the basic ingredients like flour, sugar, butter, eggs...etc. At your school, you need to pay fees, materials...etc. Step by step training is required in baking. So is what you are going to learn at school.

3) After 30mins of preparation (in this case is 2-3 years for your diploma), you baked all the ingredients you have in a oven (in this case is your last and final assessment. You being the pre-made cup cake and your lecturers are the OVEN!)

4) At the end, either u have a successful attempt at baking, or you screwed up the whole process and have to start over. Your cupcakes either rise to its perfect full glory or you get black cupcakes and burnt your fingers while tasting them.

Of course there are some people who choose to drop making cupcakes and decide to learn how to bake a whole cake. I wonder, you don't even have the foundation, how on earth can you succeed? These are all jacks. Jacks of all trades, Master of none. Cupcake making is not as easy as you think. No one really bakes for the first time and succeed.

The Aftermath:

Great. Now you make a good cupcake. What do you do? Go into business. Hopefully set up a stall and sell ya wonderful cupcakes. In the process, hope that some big mega-successful company buys over ya receipe or you become a CEO of your own cupcake factory. You might need to improvise and come up with more flavours. You are afterall not the only cupcake seller in the market. You come up with a unique-selling point. You are successful.

Know your roots. Be creative. Stay focus.