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I'm moving to Breckenridge!!
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Well, I'm taking a year off school and moving to the mountains. I have a job lined up at Copper as a snowmaker until around christmas time, and then I've got one as a ski instructor at Breck. I'm stoked as hell because I get to move in to Breck next month and the job for Copper starts Sept. 25. Anyone else live up there? I'm only moving from Denver so I know the area very well, but if anybody else lives around Breck or Frisco or anywhere around there that would be cool
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saying that you want to be a ski instructor is enough reason for me not to want to hang out with you.
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props - hope to do the same sometime soon
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good reasoning, now you go play nice with your 12 year old friends.
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do you know what kind of kids are ski instructors? chodes, losers, fags that can't ski/snowboard, and kids from nz or south america.
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and that 12 yr old comment.... well i'm pretty sure you will be the one playing with them because you will just be a glorified baby sitter.
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maybe he just wants a job where he can be on the mountain all the time... no need for hate
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You know, It's a job that will pay me. My guess here is that you may have had a bad experience as a child, most likely involving a person from NZ or S. America, and more likely than not by the way you're acting, it involved your ass. So why don't you just drop this whole being a dick thing and grow up. I'll be a ski instructor for the season because I'll get paid for skiing and teaching it to other people which doesn't seem like a bad deal to me. If it makes me a loser in your eyes, fine. Grow up.
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i was just trying to save you a little bit of integrity. being on the hill teaching or pretty much any of the jobs on the hill you don't get that much riding in. best paying & most riding time jobs are at night.
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nice...ive heard theres some pretty sick skiing at breck, you should check out the bowls at keystone while ur in summit county cuz theres some sick bowl skiing there
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yea there definately is and Im from Denver so I know all of the mountains well, and Keystone is opening a whole new section of bowls and steeps this season so that should be sweet
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Did you just say steeps and keystone in the sentance?? That is some funny shit, breck sucks donkey balls just like you, have fun in the 40 mph winds and the freezing temps babysittin' kids at breck all day long
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It's true they aren't really "steeps" but thats what they like to call them as of right now. Its still some nice open terrain.
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breck is so much fun... you just need to know where to go... park is obviously the best around.... but if you don't feel like riding the park for whatever reason it may be their is some good stuff to hit up, but unless there is a foot of fresh then there really isn't an excuse to not be in freeway.
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you probably have no idea what youre talking about-do you even ski there and actually know where to ski even if you do ski there
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Copper's got the best bowls in my opinion. I'm a troller there. Breck's park is the shit, and the Basin has the best steeps.
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I don't know what you are talking about cause I know really sick skiers when I instructed. One went to the Olympics as a GS racer (I think she's from Sweden or Norway) and another is an amazing all-mountain skier and he's from NZ.
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i feel bad for you, especially if you wanna be a ski instructor at breck.
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any reason why? or is it just a statement?
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see i'm not the only one who thinks this..... you will literally be a baby sitter
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^ its true. Nothing like supervising a bunch of spoiled little brats all day.
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eh we'll see what happens, a position just opened up for a lift op which is more suiting to me as it is
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i would say that if you can't deal with kids or adults for the whole ski day its a good deal and you probably get paid more by the hour, right? so it probably balances out somewhat
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like omg lets tell everyone.
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hatin's what i do.
If you don't ski park all day long, then breck sucks balls, i spent three seasons in colorado and logged plenty of days at breck and then I realized breck fuckin sucks. ALmost always cold and windy, and its as flat as an eleven year old girl, and its usually crowded as a motherfucker. The only thing to do there is ride park or ski around stoned looking for huts to get more stoned in.
And FYI ski instructing is the worst entry-level job at a ski resort because you get stuck with whiny little brats.
And to the person that said I knew a ski instructor that skied in the olympics, those type of instructors are the most stuck up bitches I have ever met. They fuckin think they own everything at the resort and make smug remarks all day long. I bet their name was Jan or Stein or Ono.
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their names are Eva and Jason respectively... and they were really nice to me, but maybe they were to others but that wasn't the point of my post, I was just pointing out that there are really good skiers as ski instructors
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actuallay lift ops get paid less, but i'll be working a second job at the same time so it'll work out i guess
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^hmm, that's cool i guess... do you think that lifties are less stressed out than instructors?
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yea i'm sure they are because all you're doing is helping on the lifts and stuff like that mostly, while being an instructor you do have to work with kids that are probably gonna whine because they dont want to do a mogul run. I'm going up for an interview for a lift op next tuesday though and i'll do that instead now because it's definately more laid back it seems like
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i'm thinkin a harder job would be more enjoyable that one where you just stand around all day and watch people ski.
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i'm a lazy guy. and my job at copper has me working 12 hour days for up to four days in a row, so that will be my hard working job for the season haha
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dude do what u want bro! dont listen to people that have no clue what ur doing... def. do it! Sounds awesome! gettin to move out to the mountains... i think if did that i would probally never come back home and never go to college so im waiting till after.........
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i am quite jealous. i go to school in the springs so that would be immpossible.
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Instructing isnt as great as you think it would be. You dont get much time to actually ski aside from having to teach little kids.
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so if all those jobs suck, what are the best jobs there? I jsut made a post about trying to work terrain park crew... I also heard working reservations is a good job, you make about 14/hr with commissions.
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I used to teach about 7 years ago and it is a babysitting job. But if you get little kids you can jib around with them all day (going super slow) and they usually dig it and tell their parents that youre cool (getting you tips). But sometimes kids suck. I taught in NH where kids were so thankful just to be on the mountain when it 40 below, Breckenridge will probaby be a different story. good luck!
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