The responsibility of a baker is to cook a wide range of breads and pastries. The job doesn't follow conventional working hours as it requires starting very early in the morning and working while most people are asleep. If you are a morning person, you will enjoy working as a baker.
When applying for a job as a baker, keep in mind that the job varies depending on if you are working in a small company or in a large kitchen. If you consider working in a small bakery, you will most likely be working independently and bake goods by hand. If you find a job in an industrial scale bakery, you will work among a team to achieve a goal of mass quantities. You will work less by hand, but will deal with large machines.
Regardless of the size of the company you are working for, you will be asked to master a large amount of tools going from simple kitchen implements to industrial mixing machines.
Duties of a baker include measuring and mixing ingredients into dough by following a specific recipe. After that, you will bake the shaped dough and, in some cases, decorate the final product. Salaries for bakers vary from £6.5 to £9.77 an hour. Your salary will increase with experience and expertise.
