The most important short-term goals for yourself are to bake as much as possible. At every opportunity you need to bake new things to get lots of experience.
There's an Executive Chef, Head Chef, Sous Chef, Pastry Chef, Chef de Partie (Station Chef), and Garde Manger (pantry chef).
It depends on where you are at, but there are different pastry chef schools that you can attend. Such as: www.sfbi.com, www.reluctantgourmet.com/baking_pastry_chef_schools.htm or even www.frenchpastryschool.com.
A baker or a pastry chef.
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No you cannot call you're self a pastry chef without a degree because you are going to have some experience to become one.
Yes you can because pastry chef and chef are both the art of cooking.
yes you have to be able to measure
yes there can be staff for a pastry chef
You can get the required training to become a pasty chef at most cooking schools. It usually take a year or two of hard practice.
There is a Culinary school in Portland, OR that you can go to to become a pastry chef. If you feel you have the talent, desire, and the fortitude....begin by apprenticing yourself to one of the top hotel pastry chefs in the USA or Europe. It will NOT be easy.
Assistant pastry chefs earn on the low end of the salary scale at about $25,000 to start. On the upper end are executive pastry chefs earning about $80,000 per year.
"A Day in the Life of a Pastry Chef" is an excellent and very informative website on pastry chefs. Culimary school and an on the job apprenticeship are needed to become a pastry chef. http://www.hcareers.com/us/resourcecenter/tabid/306/articleid/288/default.aspx