Tell me one interesting fact about your job that most people outside wouldn't know

I'll start first: most of the cakes you get from bakeries come in frozen and prepared. Even in really nice bakeries we get frozen bases to ensure consistency. The designs are always fresh and we put a lot of work in but most people expect a freshly baked sponge every time

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Queendragonfly · 31-35, F

The glamorous on-stage life isn't as nice as Hollywood and the red carpet wants it to seem. This killed my dream to have a career as an actor. It's a ruthless business where the word "too sick to do your job" simply is none existent.

If you work as an actor, there's no mercy, zero. You are sick? Puking? You will deliver, every single person in the team counts on you and so you'll go out on stage, do your thing, hold your shit or puke or blood in, til you are behind stage, where there's a bucket and perhaps a nurse waiting to patch you up.

I had a real bad influensa and fever, my voice felt like knives each time I spoke. I remember pouring a bottle of cough meds like a shot in between the acts. Just to be able use my voice. I have never pushed my body so much before. It was extremely unhealthy. And yet this is nothing compared to actors who are big. Who maybe are told to lose or gain weight for a character or something else extreme.

Let's just say I'm not jealous on any celebrity. And they deserve every penny for the work they go through for our entertainment.