"I was living in Seattle and making over $100,000 with equity and bonuses as an administrative business partner at Google. I lucked out finding good apartments in cool neighborhoods, and financially, I was OK, but I felt unfulfilled. I was in environments where it was very dog-eat-dog. I'd look around the room and think, 'What am I doing here?'"
"I kept asking myself why I wasn't doing something that brought me joy. I would still bake here and there, making cakes and cupcakes for friends, and found myself enjoying the process. That dream of wanting to go to pastry school had never disappeared."
Valerie Valcourt worked in Big Tech for five years, earning over $100,000 at Google in Seattle as an administrative business partner. Despite financial stability and good living conditions, she felt unfulfilled in the competitive, dog-eat-dog environment. A childhood passion for baking, sparked during high school home economics class, never faded. After recognizing her unhappiness, she applied to pastry school in Paris but faced financial and mental barriers. She moved to New York to work as an executive assistant at a meditation company while preparing for her transition. She eventually attended pastry school in France and has since worked on Disney cruise ships, pursuing her dream of opening her own patisserie.
Read at Business Insider
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