Covid Taught This Teacher To Take Risks. So He Quit To Turn His Hobby Into A Business

Extract from Author

“When I was doing the sums on how much sales I’m making,” Justin Lin, 31, says, “I was like, ‘Wait, I only made $50 bucks today and I worked so hard last night? I gotta change my menu items or I gotta increase the prices.’”

Justin is a trained sculptor and an art teacher in a secondary school, but is probably better known as half of the duo who runs the popular Serangoon Sourdough, a home-based bakery that sells, well, sourdough bread (surprise!).

Actually, let me correct the above statement. Justin is a soon-to-be ex-teacher in a secondary school, for he has since tendered his resignation and is leaving his teaching job at the end of the year to attend pastry school and focus on his baking business.

Written by
Yeo Boon Ping,
Rice Media

Tuesday,
22 December 2020

Merit Award, Story