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Originally Posted by radeonboy

It's one thing for us as consumers to enjoy all the pastries, but it's another to be the producer of all these goods day-in day-out. Between being the main baker and possibly running the business in general (not sure what other help he gets), I can see his kids being turned off by the manual labor and/or went for a career that is more lucrative.

Yup, my old man (commercial fisherman) did everything in his power to discourage me from following in his footsteps.

It was a great life, but it came with many hardships. He showed me the ropes (literally) and I knew right away, I was not cut out to be him.

Calloused hands, scars everywhere.............. no thanks.