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Photo by Faith Dwight

While most of us are hitting our snooze buttons, Josh is pulling his final batches of baguettes and artisan breads from the ovens at Stick Boy Bread Company.  He and his wife, Katie, run the Fuquay-Varina location of Stick Boy, which opened its first and only other shop in Boone in 2001.  Josh studied industrial drafting in college, and worked at a local civil engineering firm for several years before opening Stick Boy last year.  “I just decided I didn’t want to work in an office for the rest of my life,” he explains.  He went from a nine-to-five job to a nine-to-six job – 9pm to 6am, that is.  Josh says one of his favorite things about baking is the instant gratification of seeing a loaf he’s prepared come out of the oven.  “I love to see people enjoy it, too.” 

What’s your favorite thing about wearing a skirt?  “If I were to bake in a skirt, it’d probably help with the heat; it gets pretty hot by the oven.”

And reading skirt!? “It helps me figure out what my wife would like.”