Erin Wade is a successful chef, author, and restauranteur. However, before all this, Erin was a highly-paid lawyer in a high-rise in San Francisco. What is the difference between the two jobs? Happiness and love.
In a recent article in Fortune Magazine, Erin Wade talks about how she quit her respectable job and started a business of her own in the food industry. Talking about her previous job as a lawyer, Erin shared, "I sounded important at cocktail parties, looked damned respectable in a suit each day, and did work representing some of the largest companies in America. The problem was that I was miserable.
" In the Fortune Magazine article adapted from her book 'The Mac & Cheese Millionaire: Building a Better Business by Thinking Outside the Box', Erin shared that she wanted to love who she was at work. "I would hear people talk about being excited to wake up in the morning to go to work and think they were crazy-that maybe I just wasn't that kind of person. I wanted to love who I was in the world and how I spent my days there.
I wanted the people around me to feel the same way," she wrote. Also Read: Cooking Tips: How To Make Mac And Cheese In A Microwave (Recipe Inside) She found her love and calling in mac and cheese. "I hoped that the longing I felt for something more meaningful could be found in making delicious food and sharing it with people," she shared.
Erin opened Homeroom, a macaroni and cheese restaurant, in 2011. Erin is now the world's leading expert on macaron.
