Little Happier: You Love Engineering and You Love Baking. Can That Be a Career?

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

In the Netflix TV show “Baking Impossible,” Andrew Smyth combines a passion for engineering with a passion for baking. Sometimes, it’s possible to combine our interests in improbable but exciting ways. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Want to be happier in 2022? Order Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project to see how she approached the question, “How can I be happier?” and start a Happiness Project of your own. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:33.1	On TV, my daughters Eliza and Eleanor love to watch a baking show.
0:37.9	And they love to watch a competition show.
0:40.3	And they especially love to watch a baking competition show.
0:44.5	Over the holidays, they discovered a new show they love, called Baking Impossible on Netflix.
0:50.9	A description of the show explains that top bakers and engineers
0:54.8	team up to build edible creations that must taste delicious and survive intense,
0:59.9	engineering stress tests.
1:02.4	So contestants, called Baking Years, are asked to create things like
1:06.7	an edible robot capable of navigating a candy-covered obstacle course while
1:11.5	carrying in a dessert inside.
1:13.7	Or a delicious watertight boat that must sail 20 feet and 45 seconds.
1:19.5	Or an edible car that must travel 100 feet before smashing into a steel wall at 20
1:24.7	five miles per hour all while protecting the crashed test dummy inside.
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