Syracuse • What do you do after 25-plus years in the corporate world, after your job in the telecommunications industry is eliminated?
If you’re Mike Jardine — who now runs Twisted Sugar, the quickly expanding cookie company that launched out of Davis County and now has locales in eight states — you bake cookies.
He had initially taken up baking as a distraction to help alleviate the pressures of his corporate job. “Being the general manager, there are times when I had 200 employees. It’s pretty stressful. You try to find places outside work to relieve that stress,” he said.
After his telecommunications position was axed, though, and after trying his hand at flipping homes and working for start-up companies, he came to the realization that change was in order, big change. Cookies, perhaps, could open the next door.
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