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Official how you earned money to pay for ski stuff thread

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Mr_pretzel
Posts: 4616 - Karma: 1,289
Post the following list of how you got your new gear.

Age: 13-14

How you earned your money: Working at a shipping dock.

Your wage: 10 bucks an hour, 60kr (Thats really cheap for norway)

How many hours/days you worked: 280 hours/62 days.

How much you earned: $2822

What you are spending it on: Paying my parents back for the money loaned the me for on3p and trew $1700,
Buying a new poc helmet $110,
New crowbars and different lenses $200 and dakine mitts and gloves $140.

The rest will be going to my saving account so i have a little money to buy random things.

Post up your lists!
Jul 20 2010 3:07AM
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Kangbang
Posts: 14211 - Karma: 423
age - 15
Jul 20 2010 4:30AM
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Kangbang
Posts: 14211 - Karma: 423
age - 15
job - busser at boston pizza
wage - $8 + pooled tips
days/hours worked - 2 days, 7 hours, my first shift was yesterday
earned - about $60 - $70
spending on - everything for skiing
Jul 20 2010 4:32AM
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Mr_pretzel
Posts: 4616 - Karma: 1,289
What you getting?
Jul 20 2010 4:58AM
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eddy9
Posts: 383 - Karma: 216
Age 11 job teaching my dad spanish Workhours a few hours a day Wage 1000 once he can speak well Gona buy hoodies perhaps jacket or might save up for ski camp
Jul 20 2010 8:22AM
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Newschool_Pope
Posts: 2473 - Karma: 267
age 18
selling ski stuff- about 500 euros/650 $
working at the berlin fashion week- 240 €/ 310$
baby sitting- 150€/200$ (about 7 days)


spending it on? not sure yet, possibly dirtbike, car, ski gear, or just saving
Jul 20 2010 8:49AM
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mBjerkenes
Posts: 165 - Karma: 36
Age: 15

How you earned your money: Luggage carrier at two hotels in Oslo.

Your wage: 3 per luggage + 15 bucks per hour

How many hours/days you worked: Dont have a system for that

How much you earned: $3192,23 yet, but it looks like im gonna earn 7980,59 by the end of this summer

What you are spending it on: Vespa LX 50, licence, driving lessons (all for the scooter, so i can drive it), new crowbars, random stuff

(Sorry for my bad english skills, im norwegian)

Jul 20 2010 9:18AM
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.Max.
Posts: 2930 - Karma: 701
Age-16
Job- Dishwashing at a local resturaunt
Wage-$8 an hour plus tips
Time- 1-2 days a week from 8am-5pm, worked about a month there
Money made- $450ish
Spending on- First Drop jacket, Maybe some fresh new tall tees, Car insurance and gas... Fuck cars...
Jul 20 2010 9:28AM
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.Max.
Posts: 2930 - Karma: 701
seven million dollars...
Jul 20 2010 9:30AM
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mBjerkenes
Posts: 165 - Karma: 36
Whut? 50 000 Norwegian Kroner = 7980,59 Dollars.
Jul 20 2010 9:43AM
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.Max.
Posts: 2930 - Karma: 701
Haha, never mind, dollars are supposed to be separated by cents by a period and you used a comma. Easy mistake... Guess you learn something new every day.
Jul 20 2010 10:11AM
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BryantPhoto
Posts: 1574 - Karma: 891

Age: 19


How you earned your money: Summer internship at United Technologies working on the Boeing 787


Your wage: $27 hour


How many hours/days you worked: 40/week, 3 months


How much you earned: Enough


What you are spending it on: Already spent majority on photo equipment. Get ski's for free, have boots, and outerwear. Maybe buying some Surface rockered skis, skiing out west on breaks, flights to Cali on the weekends.

Jul 20 2010 10:13AM
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A.Eberhard
Posts: 4426 - Karma: 415
Age 16
Lifeguard at a hotel indoor pool
Making $10.61 an hour
Work about 38 hours a week, 1 12 hour shift a week
Going to make $4500 for the summer
Spending on: Air Raid bib, tripod, camera backpack, Rest is being saved for other non skiing stuff.
Jul 20 2010 10:15AM
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mBjerkenes
Posts: 165 - Karma: 36
Ok, thank you! Now i know that! :)
Jul 20 2010 10:18AM
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DJ_Pauly_D
Posts: 1043 - Karma: 42
age: turned 16 two days ago

job: buss boy and wash clubs at a golf course

wage: 8.25+tip/h (i get good tip like last week i made 60$ of tip washing clubs in 4 hours)

hours per week: 20-30

money earned yet: $1400

spending on: volcom pants i got and a new jacket that i still havent decided... the rest saving it up and refilling my bank account from when i bought my yamaha bws 50cc scooter this spring
Jul 20 2010 10:22AM
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jeremy.g
Posts: 4931 - Karma: 459
age : olde enough

how i acquired my currency : i basically just blew a bunch of dudes this summer
Jul 20 2010 11:35AM
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.Max.
Posts: 2930 - Karma: 701
fair enough
Jul 20 2010 11:43AM
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krsalte
Posts: 43 - Karma: 10
Age: 17

How you earned your money: Work at a furniture store

Your wage: 20$/hour + 170% paid when working more than 8 hrs.

How much you earned: Enough to buy what I want, twice. Or maybe 3 times. And some random stuff.

What are you spending it on: Skiing, outerwear, clothes and alcohol.
Jul 20 2010 11:57AM
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belden...
Posts: 2914 - Karma: 1,274
Age- 16
Job- Caddying 30$ an hour plus tip (which is usually about 40$). I work 4 hours a day (round of golf) and about 3 times a week.
Earned- 1,300 still more to come.
What I'll spend it on- Ski pants and jacket, Skis (either on3p or atomic), And Gas
Jul 20 2010 12:47PM
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Kangbang
Posts: 14211 - Karma: 423
full tilt hot dogger, saga jacket and pants, dont know what park skis yet, want armada JJ's, splices with 2 lens, fks 155 for park skis
Jul 20 2010 12:50PM
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FreeskierRocco.
Posts: 3740 - Karma: 91

Age: 15

How you earned your money: Selling sex... no, but bussing at a hotel restaurant 

Your wage: 7.25per hr plus %10 of waiters tips 

How many hours/days you worked: 5-6 days a week. 4-8 hours per day 

How much you earned: a couple hundred so far

What you are spending it on: Downhill bike shit, Full Tilt hot doggers, new helmet, maybe new jacket and snowpants

Jul 20 2010 1:01PM
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c4t_l0ver
Posts: 5485 - Karma: 810

15

making desserts and dishwashing at a local restaraunt. ( fucking hell )

8.50/hr - 5 hours a night, 3-5 nights a week

ive made alot of mondey ( worked their for over a year. )

planning on buying :

full tilt hottdoggers, salomon 2012's. surface pow skis, (3 STAGE ROCKER!) and savng for outerwear in a season or 2.

and new job on the way, working at the dock at the boat renatal place.

Jul 20 2010 1:27PM
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Aaaron.
Posts: 11817 - Karma: 903
17

reffing soccer
$24-$36 a game
tons of games...
$400 per season
guitars
Jul 20 2010 1:44PM
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c4t_l0ver
Posts: 5485 - Karma: 810

wow, spelling fails.

 Iv'e made alot of MONEY* ( worked THERE* for over a year. )

Jul 20 2010 1:47PM
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Jaggy_Snake
Posts: 2287 - Karma: 1,418
age - 21

job - I got 2. 1st is at a Supermarket, 2nd is at a pub.

wage - 1st job: It works out to be a little over $9 p/h. 2nd
job: the same as my 1st + tips

days/hours worked - I get 2 days off a week + 6 weeks holiday over the year. Both jobs add up to almost 40 hrs a week

earned - Enough

spending on - Jacket, Pants, Goggles, Gloves, skis + Bindings
Jul 20 2010 1:52PM
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blackoutbill
Posts: 2918 - Karma: 282
Age: 17

How you earned your money: Pharmacy tech, janitor, cashier pseudo-tech man at a local pharmacy (my dad's business) and I umpire baseball games

Your wage: $8.50 an hour and $20-30 a game

How many hours/days you worked: 30 to 40 hours a week for about 10 weeks

How much you earned: Not enough to buy what I want and save for what I actually need (read: I want skis but I need to save for college)

What it has paid for: Used FD suit - $200
Used road bike + accessories - $600ish
Misc (poles, hats, ski movies, clothes)- $300
Jul 21 2010 12:32AM
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bibs_skibum
Posts: 4462 - Karma: 449
age: 21
Job: Landscape foreman
Pay: 16/Hr
Hours: easily 50 per week so loads of overtime
What i buy with it: An entire years worth of rent, utilities, gas, spending money, caylors, fks 155s, new outerwear...

Only problem: No job during the school year so i sit and watch my bank account wither to nothing every year and i have to be very careful since i'm budgeting for 8 months out of the year basically
Jul 21 2010 12:49AM
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That_One_Dude
Posts: 1050 - Karma: 760
Age: 17

How you earned your money: Starter and Cart Washer at a golf course.

Your wage: $8.00 and hour

How many hours/days you worked: 3 days a week, 20 hours a week total every summer for the last 3 years

How much you earned: I have like $4000 in the bank saved from the past 3 summers working there.

What you are spending it on: Forks and a new bash guard for my Downhill mountain bike, Oakley Corked suit, Second splice lens, Full Tilt Hot Doggers or High Fives whichever fits better, Xbox live, New golf driver, and i already bought my season pass for 7 springs for like the 8th year in a row lol
Jul 21 2010 1:02AM
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bustinthejus
Posts: 2419 - Karma: 74
Ehh not really a mistake - some countries (I believe France is one of them) use commas instead of periods.
Jul 21 2010 1:18AM
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nickyp
Posts: 5673 - Karma: 215
Age: 19
Job: Economics/ Maths tutor.

Kids give me $30 an hour to make them pass exams.

Before that though, I worked some really shitty jobs. My first job was as an intern in an office, worked 8am-6pm 5 days a week for less than minimum wage, doing the dullest work possible.
But I can't help but feel my Chronics felt all the more plush for it.
Jul 21 2010 1:34AM
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FerrisBueller
Posts: 8280 - Karma: 5,173
Age: 17

How you earned your money: Teaching Tennis

Your wage: 12 bucks an hour

How many hours/days you worked: 20 hours/ 1 week (no total hours yet, summers not over)

How much you earned: so far ive earned $1377.48

What you are spending it on: Lethal Descent 2011, Chronic Cryptonites, Jiberish, New Gloves probs empire, Eye Trip.


Jul 21 2010 1:47AM
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.nasty
Posts: 10581 - Karma: 11,150
trading my xbox and selling my ATV.
Jul 21 2010 1:52AM
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585.
Posts: 4059 - Karma: 77

Age - 17

How I Earned my money - Pizza Delivery guy/ dish washing

7.15/ hr + tips (usually about 20 a night)

How much have I earned so far: $2000

What I plan to spend it on: Oh boy...First Drop suit, Armada Thalls, Rossi FKS 140, Splices and Crowbars, Ski Movies, Jiberish, Bandanas, Gloves, oh and cant forget gas for my whip

Jul 21 2010 2:26AM
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-Dan
Posts: 7130 - Karma: 51,730
19
Butcher assistant
$8.30 per hour
25-30hr/wk for 2.5month
~$1500
pay for gas, season pass, IF3, vinyl cutter
Jul 21 2010 9:21AM
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Stickerbrush
Posts: 363 - Karma: 22
Age: 18
Job: Commercial apprenticeship, third/last year
42hrs/week
wage ~1200$ / ~800€ per month

I'm going to buy new suit, new skis, new goggles and a new helmet
Jul 21 2010 9:46AM
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Gnams
Posts: 891 - Karma: 31
age 18
graduation money: 2,000
still have 1,000 leftover from bought ski stuff. Ya!!!d
Jul 21 2010 10:36AM
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JStrathern
Posts: 8747 - Karma: 1,536
excuse me? $1700 for your skis and suit? holy fuck.
Jul 21 2010 1:51PM
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Gnams
Posts: 891 - Karma: 31
trew is expensive as shit!
Jul 21 2010 3:05PM
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Jack_P
Posts: 75 - Karma: 11

17

Lifeguard

8.50

4/5 days a week

7 hrs a day

every dime spent on ski stuff/ gas which is expensive as fuck

Jul 21 2010 3:55PM
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Style+eeze
Posts: 6901 - Karma: 551
Age: 16

How you earned your money: Teaching tennis at my local club

Your wage: $12.50/hour

How many hours/days you worked: A few hours each week during the school year, and a ton of hours in the summer. I started working last summer.

How much you earned: About $2000.

What you are spending it on: I don't really spend my money. I guess I just bought some skis from a friend, but they were cheap. I'd rather save my money.
Jul 21 2010 4:12PM
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Otter.
Posts: 1161 - Karma: 84
Age - 17
Job - Buss Boy at sports bar/restuarant
Wage - 8.25/hr + tips, Fridays and Saturdays
Earinings - usually around 100 per 2 weeks.

Spend all of it on TWALL boots, Skis, GoPro, Outerwear.
Jul 21 2010 4:29PM
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LukeTvich
Posts: 567 - Karma: 30

Age: 16


How you earned your money: Bussing at an Italian Restaurant in Jackson Hole called The Ostaria, Ever in Jackson Hole come eat there its sooooo chron


Your wage: 6% of waiter tip outs- 75$-100$ a day


How many hours/days you worked: 21 hours a week, 3 days a week


How much you earned: so far about $900


What you are spending it on: First Drop, Crowbars, Armada Halos, Helmet, Hoodies, Vests, Hats, Shoes, Boots, etc.

Jul 21 2010 4:29PM
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3R1C
Posts: 367 - Karma: 14
Age: 15
Occupation: i cut lawns
Pay: 20 bucks per cut + spring and fall cleanups (like 150 each)
earnings: so far like $1700-$2000, but i have hardly started for the summer and still have fall cleanups
gonna spend it on assorted goods
Jul 21 2010 4:31PM
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Morginsfreeski
Posts: 129 - Karma: 10

Age- 20

How you earn your money- Work as a sports assistant at a local sports centre (Back from university over the summer)

Wage- £7.50 ($11.50)

Hours- Depends

Earned- This summer 2k

Spending on- Westbeach BC Bud Jacket, Armada pants, New poles and gloves, New afterbangs or AR7s??? (any thoughts on that one??)

Jul 21 2010 8:11PM
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WillMurphy
Posts: 496 - Karma: 130
Age: 17

How you earned your money: Worked at a ski shop, and was a part-time sex slave.

Your wage: $11 an hour, LOTS(sex slave)

How many hours/days you worked: 3 years.

How much you earned: $10,000+

What you are spending it on: Ski things, food, gas, naked female company.

Jul 21 2010 8:59PM
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hella.sick.skier
Posts: 934 - Karma: 70

age: 19

got paid: asbestos remover

wage: 45-51 per hr

hrs/days: 40 hr week/5 days a week

how much you earned: around 5g so far but have a couple more weeks to go

spending on: food, season passes to alta and PC, saga suit, gas to get the the mtns, and i would like something jiberish
Jul 21 2010 9:54PM
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omnomnom
Posts: 1280 - Karma: 73
Age: 16

How you earned your money: Working at an art and photo frame shop.

Your wage: 10 bucks an hour

How many hours/days you worked: 28 hrs/week-7 weeks

How much you earned: 1960

What you are spending it on: New park skis, new touring bindings, new poles, and anything else that comes up next season.
Jul 22 2010 2:14AM
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.jesus.
Posts: 2288 - Karma: 22
16

hard labor: breaking rocks etc etc

$625
Jul 22 2010 2:17AM
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Mr_pretzel
Posts: 4616 - Karma: 1,289
2 pairs of on3ps 1100 and i got a deal on trew for 500.
trew is fucking expensive but so worth it.
Jul 22 2010 3:23AM
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ArmadaSkier26
Posts: 417 - Karma: 5
age:16

where: country max (a gay store for like dog food and mulch, etc)

what i think about my job: fucking gay

hourly wage 7.25(minimum wage)

earned so far: about 600

i work 3 days a week 20 hours all together

side note: just sell drugs much easier
Jul 22 2010 2:43PM
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ArmadaSkier26
Posts: 417 - Karma: 5
im buying size 27 booters or hot doggers so if u wanna sell me them msg me and im buying 171 08-09 anthems if u got them once again sell me them
Jul 22 2010 2:45PM
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