Why Can’t I Just Quit My Job and Open a Bakery?

Every Monday morning, as I stare at the glowing rectangle (aka my office laptop 💻) with eyes that still belong in a dream 😴, one thought creeps in like a warm scent of vanilla:
"What if I just quit and start a bakery?" 🧁

I imagine it all—a cozy corner cafe in my beautiful town 🌊, the smell of fresh cinnamon rolls wafting through the air 🍥, fairy lights around the windows ✨, and a board that says "Baked with Drama & Dreams." I'd be wearing a messy bun, an apron with flour all over it 👩‍🍳, and maybe even humming old Ilayaraja songs 🎶. Customers would walk in for cake 🎂, but stay for conversation 💬. No deadlines. Just dough rising slowly 🍞.

But then beep, a Teams call reminder slaps me back to reality 📞.
9 AM, client sync. From sugar rush dreams to server issues. ⚙️

Don’t get me wrong—I’m grateful for the job 🙏. It pays the bills, buys the atta for the rotis 🫓 and the cream for the cake experiments 🍰. But somewhere in between Jira tickets and Jenkins builds 🧾💻, my heart whispers,
"You’re meant for more than just debugging." 💔➡️❤️

Cooking and baking are my secret escapes 🧂🍳. Whenever life becomes too much—a stressful project 🧠, an awkward conversation with a colleague 😬, or a day when I forget my kerchief and feel incomplete 😶‍🌫️—I come back to my kitchen. It’s the only place where things make sense ✅.
You follow a recipe, add love 💕, and magic happens ✨.

Still, reality bites like a burnt cookie 🍪🔥. Starting a bakery isn’t as sweet as it sounds. Rent, permits, investment, time—and oh, convincing my parents? Let’s just say I might have better luck convincing them to go out with my office colleagues (and we all know how that went!).

So here I am, caught in between logic and longing ⚖️❤️.
Maybe one day I’ll open that bakery.
Maybe one day my 40,000 salary story will be replaced by "how I built a cafe from scratch."

Until then, I’ll keep baking my dreams into midnight muffins 🌙🧁 and typing my thoughts into blog posts.

Because hey, if not a bakery today, at least I’ve got an oven full of hope and a blog full of rants. ✍️💭

– With love and leftover batter,
Mydailyrant 🍫💌