I want to get into the coffee industry such as a roaster. Is the best bet to just get in with a company and hope to rise from within, or is there specific education that can help you land a job in the production side of coffee?
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July 17th, 2009 at 2:49 am
What experience and training do you have?
The coffee ‘industry’ goes from planting coffee trees in Brazil to sweeping up the local Starbucks at night. If you want to be a ‘roaster’ you need to contact the companies that do roasting in your area and talk to them.
I’m pretty sure that if you work for a mass production plant you’d start in the warehouse end of the business [loading and unloading trucks] or other manual labor position.
You could work in the quality control end of the business. In which case a college or technical school background would be needed.