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Default How much should I charge?

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>> I agree. No reason to start a "business" making these treats unless
>> you intend to start a business in the first place. They can buy pastries
>> at the store. Once you start charging for them they'll expect them
>> and next thing
>> you know... you're in business!


> My wife ruined a perfectly good hobby that way. She used to make a
> lot of ceramic items for personal use and as gifts. Then friends
> asked her to teach them. She made good money for a couple of years,
> but has not touched a piece of clay for personal use since.
>


This is exactly the reason when my father suggested I go to school to become
a chef I said "NO." I enjoy cooking. But I cook when I want to and what I
want to. I am absolutely not going to turn it into a job. I don't want to
come to hate cooking!

Jill