"It is scary," he agrees, because he remembers how scared he'd been when his father had left the store to him and that had been with months of preparation, his father helping him every step of the way. "But if this is something you want, if Seaside isn't just something to do until you find what you really want to do, then you should do it."

At her questions, though, he shrugs. "There's a lot to consider. I set my own hours and I keep them... well, fairly regularly. I'm the only employee, so I can't have it open ten hours a day every day of the week and it's worked for me so far, but you'll have to consider other things. Will Seaside be a lot of competition? Maybe you should consider opening hours that aren't like theirs. No one can ever get fresh baking in the evening on their way home from work because it's always all gone by mid-morning. Maybe that's your market, I don't know. But the nice thing is that owning your own place means you can find out. If you try certain hours and they don't seem to work, you can change it."