become a barista

I’m not sure why I’ve always been so drawn to becoming a barista. I like people, I like coffee, I like making people happy…I suppose maybe it really is that simple. I know it’s really a lot of work, but I can’t think of a better job. I love working with the public, I love chatting up customers, I love making people smile, I love coffeehouses through and through, and I love being able to say that I love what I sell. While I was teaching English in Japan, of my Japanese co-teachers asked me what my ‘big dream’ was for the rest of my life, since we’d just been talking about a writing project in which we asked the students what their ‘big dream’ was. I thought about it and surprised myself by saying I wanted to become a barista. She was the first person to finally tell me it was okay to have a ‘little big dream’ and I’ve had my heart truly set on it ever since.