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zues
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when I started it I hated it. every single day I told myself it was my last week. I sat on a computer and made copies and was the fukin gopher for 3 months. But it looked good on my resume and I moved to a different firm. There I learned a lot of things but still had to do the BS work but it was certainly better than my first job. Now I'm working on my third job and its gotten even better. my pay is pretty damn good. I never saw myself working in an office. ever. Now I don't even mind it. the people here are chill and they serve amazing lunch here.

NS am I losing my mind? should i get out before its too late. is there something wrong with me? WTF i wanted to hate it so i could get out, but now i don't have any reason to quit besides the fact that its winter and I want to ski, but even then I can ski sat-sun all winter long and now I can afford it. I can buy new shit for the season too. I can now save for a new car.

idk wtf
Oct 23 2012 12:10PM
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theBearJew
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Working in an office SUCKS ASS. I hate it. But maybe its the work I'm doing.. I just want to travel, take the money I have saved and just travel everywhere till I run pretty low on cash.
Oct 23 2012 12:12PM
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Mr.Sloth
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When you feel the urge to stop freeskiing and start golfing, that's when you have a problem
Oct 23 2012 12:15PM
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maximiliaan
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people are chill, food is nice but every fucking day is the same... so no.
Oct 23 2012 12:16PM
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zues
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I hear that. but for right now i'm not minding it. i guess because its winter, and the work i'm doing is sort of satisfying. i never saw myself doing this, even when i picked it as a major.


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Oct 23 2012 12:17PM
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theBearJew
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This. Every day is the fucking same... SAME DAY EVERY DAY! I just waste away on NS all day when I dont feel like working. Thank god my computer doesnt face anyone and my back is to the wall so nobody can see what Im doing. Right now it probably looks like I'm typing a very important e-mail when I'm just replying to a post on NS. YAY WORK.
Oct 23 2012 12:18PM
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Funnel
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Why would it be wrong to love working in an office? There are thousands of people out there that love to work in an office and also love to ski. Also, working in an office is probably a much more enjoyable job than working at the hill. If anything, you'll love skiing a lot more by working in an office, you'll be less stressed because you have money, and you'll probably thank yourself down the road.
Oct 23 2012 12:19PM
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NotoriousT.S.E
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I hear you kinda, im on path to working in an office in the near future. Iv heard mixed opinions about my friends that have interned, but overall it seems pretty cushy.
Oct 23 2012 12:19PM
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zues
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yea, i guess because i've had 3 jobs over like 8 months mixes it up, but each job gets better and I make more $$$. the more i put on my resume, the better the jobs get, its sort of interesting to see how i've progressed haha
Oct 23 2012 12:22PM
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yelsel
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This is pretty much it.

I've been working in an office for almost 11 years now. It has its ups and downs just like any other jobs but really, it's not too bad. Plus, I get powder days off. Can't complain on that one.

Oct 23 2012 12:27PM
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seward
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its the same as anything else, you always desire more.

working in a office has its pro's and con's, working outside has its pro's and con's.
whichever one you have, you will always want the other.
Oct 23 2012 12:31PM
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Stainr
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Its pretty chill

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Oct 23 2012 12:37PM
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zues
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no doubt. all about perspective
Oct 23 2012 12:38PM
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YewTard
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That's what I did. Graduated college and slaved away in a cubicle for 3.5 years in Washington DC completely miserable. After year 2 or so I decided I was gonna make moves and started being cheap/stashing cash. Right after the new years holiday in 2010 I came into the office and put in my 2 weeks notice, packed my truck, and started driving west. Had a buddy from college who lived in Denver so I stopped there for a week and hit Breck, Vail, etc. Found out a friend of a friend lived in Salt Lake so moved on and crashed his basement for a couple weeks. Decided I wanted to stay, bought a Snowbird pass, and eventually moved to Park City to take a menial job as a lifty just to meet people and network.

Almost two yrs later now I'm back in an office, but that office is in Park City and I'm a hell of a lot happier. Can still night ski every night after work at PC, take long weekends in Jackson, etc. I'll probably look back on it for the rest of my life knowing I had the most fun at any point in my life that winter (it also helped that Snowbird got about 800 inches...). Just do it.

Oct 23 2012 12:45PM
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zues
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yea thats my ultimate plan . save up enough and move to SLC or Denver. i was thinking about next winter, i'll have to see if I have enough cash saved up by then. I think I'll have no problem getting an accountng job out there with over a year of experience under my belt.
Oct 23 2012 12:52PM
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Willgum
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Were you a business major? Im going to school for business, I personally wouldnt mind working in an office as long as I get time to spend outside on the weekends
Oct 23 2012 12:57PM
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howlongcanausern
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you can have both
Oct 23 2012 1:17PM
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zues
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yea i was accounting/finance. i'm doing accounting now, way more jobs available, and they pay just as well.
Oct 23 2012 1:30PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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i have a love/hate relationship with working in an office. i hate it because i'm an adrenaline junky and there's not much adrenaline to be found in an office job. but realistically, i make good money, am off by 5 oclock every day, have every weekend off, get great benefits, and half the time i'm getting paid to play on the internet/stream tv shows or movies. it's a fucking cake walk. i honestly can't believe someone pays me to do it. accountant ftmfw.


Oct 23 2012 2:17PM
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zues
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what kind of accounting work do you do? I have found that I have plenty of free time as well. I do 30 minutes of work and jump on NS, facebook or CNN for about 15 min. 30 more min of work, 10-15 min on internet .
Oct 23 2012 2:27PM
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Brenone
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It depends what you do I guess. Ive been working in an office for 10+ years now and I dont mind. I get out of my office a lot though. I have meetings outside the office and Im always at our jobsites doing bank walkthroughs.
Some offices are more fun than others depending who you work with. But I also get weekends & holidays off along with 3 weeks vacation + sick days. Sure when I see its dumping up in VT on a Tuesday afternoon I want to skip out and drive up there, and once in a while I do, but I have to fund my skiing habit somehow right?
Oct 23 2012 2:29PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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corporate/tax. don't get me wrong, there are times when I'm busy as fuck, but there's also a lot of time when i'm not. it's either a peak or a valley, so to speak, as far as work load is concerned.

it helps that i've got two monitors, too, as i'll do work on one and have a tv show playing on the other.
Oct 23 2012 2:34PM
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zues
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that what i want to do. how'd you get into it? tax was my strongest field in school and i'm looking for opportunities in that area.
Oct 23 2012 2:43PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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got a bachelor's and master's in accounting...and then started job hunting. i'd recommend interning as much as possible while in school as it'll make it a lot easier to land a job after school. i know a ton of people who ended up getting hired on after interning.
Oct 23 2012 3:04PM
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zues
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almost went for my masters but decided against it. what about the CPA? I was going to skip masters and go for CPA instead but i'm currently figuring out a masters would greatly help the path to the CPA
Oct 23 2012 3:08PM
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TheDers
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if you like what you are doing and the pay is good and you are happy then i wouldnt worry about it at all.
Oct 23 2012 3:08PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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yes, yes it will. plus you have to have 150 hours to sit for the cpa, so you might as well get a masters while getting those hours.
Oct 23 2012 3:17PM
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zues
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yea, problem is the GMAT prep book seemed hard as fuck so i sort of dropped it. i don't remember geometry and algebra at all. How was the GMAT for you?
Oct 23 2012 3:21PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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i hadn't done geometry in 10 years, and i didn't study one bit for the gmat. hell, i up and decided to go to grad school in august, and managed to get the gmat taken and get registered before it started in september.

gmat was a breeze for the most part...aside from the geometry that i didn't remember all of the proofs, etc. for. all you have to do is get a high enough score to get accepted. once you do that, no one ever looks at, nor asks about your gmat score ever again.
Oct 23 2012 3:36PM
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snowdon
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I'm the office manager of a vacation rental/home management company in Park City, and it honestly doesn't suck. It pays better than my last job, the people are really nice, I get benefits, I never have to work weekends or holidays, I can see the mountain from my window, and I'm done by 4 every day (unless I choose to stay later). I'm at the office alone most of the time, which wouldn't be good for everyone, but it's something I really like. It's quiet and I'm free to pretty much do whatever I want all day. Usually there isn't that much work for me to do - I'd say on any given day I have to put in about 3 hours of actual work in order to stay on top of things. The rest of the time I'm on facebook or NS or hulu. Honestly it surprises me sometimes that this is even something I'm making a living doing, cause most of the time I'm literally getting paid to dick around on the internet.
Oct 23 2012 3:47PM
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Chuffin
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Do both? I work for a ski company in their head office where I get regular work trips out to ski resorts in winter and summer and get to write about skiing all day. Pretty sweet!
Oct 23 2012 4:01PM
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THUNT836
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but when you do both, youre livin the life
Oct 23 2012 4:03PM
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zues
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damn thanks man. maybe i should reconsider. the book i was trying to study from was super hard, but then again were the SAT books and i still did above average on the SAT
Oct 23 2012 6:24PM
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LoathesRaisins
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Be a firefighter.
Oct 23 2012 6:27PM
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Yardie
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but you're jewish....dont you have a pot of gold or some shit already stashed in your parent's basement?
Oct 23 2012 6:29PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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i would highly reconsider it, dude. i don't regret it one bit. if you thought college was fun, grad school is an absolute fucking blast. probably one of the best times of my life. plus, these days you need a graduate degree if you want to distinguish yourself from the norm. everybody and there brother has a bachelor's.

as to the gmat, just go for it. it's really not all that bad. if you're a decent test taker, then you should do fine. i'd find out what the admission requirements are for your school, and just make sure you can do that.

i want to say that most schools require somewhere between a 500-600 score to gain admission. and it literally doesn't matter whether you pass by 1 point or 300 points....as long as you hit the minimum, you're fine. you'll never be asked again. hell, i don't even remember what i scored on it, but i can still tell you my act score...that's how little it matters.

ps - if i remember correctly, there are a couple of gmat practice tests available through the gmat website. you could always check those out to get a feel for the test. i didn't study one iota, and hadn't done most of the stuff in YEARS, and still got an admissible score.
Oct 23 2012 10:41PM
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CassiusClay
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Agreed. My job is my life, up until weekends. Get paid and make sure you have a chance to ski on weekends, even if its at a shitty-ass resort outside of NY.
Oct 23 2012 11:02PM
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Spic-N-SpaN
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I just quite my summer job detailing cars (washing frost off in 30 degree weather sucks) and started working at my dads office. I'm not liking it, sitting in a chair, entering numbers into a computer, working with a chick that used to do my job knows everything, Its not bad but the other job I was on my feet and when it got slow I got to help take cars apart and bullshit with the other guys that worked there or just kick back with a cup of coffee and browse NS and watch edits. Now I have to watch what I say, interact with customers, and kiss ass.

Really its not that bad, theres a lot of , biggest thing is I dont have any office suitable clothing, and no money for clothes, wearing the same pair of cords almost everyday
Oct 23 2012 11:16PM
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HIT
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PREPARE TO GET FATTTTT
Oct 23 2012 11:20PM
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E__
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Inb4 OP becomes another actor in Office Space 2.
Oct 24 2012 12:04AM
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SuspiciousFish
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I work in an office in Salt Lake in Employee Benefits and it really does suck ass. I pretty much just answer a shit ton of emails and do excel work in a grey cubicle all day every day Every day is the same and I am surrounded by old people that I cant relate to or care to get to know. People are old but have basically the same maturity level as Jr. High so there is always bullshit politics to deal with. Its all about what company you work for and the culture though. Some places are pretty chill and have cool people which makes it better. The only redeeming thing is the pay and time off. I get 20 "PTO" days a year that I can take whenever I want so I can hit up powder days or just call in if I feel like a 3 day weekend.
Oct 24 2012 12:48AM
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SlimDunkin.
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my dick is huge brah
Oct 24 2012 12:59AM
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Bodhisattva_
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This is what I want to do. Sort of. Either a managemnet position for an umbrella ski resort corporation or more likely a sales Rep(ideally international) for a snow sports company. I'm still in HS so if anyone could shed some light on the feasibility of either of those options it would be much appreciated.
Oct 24 2012 1:11AM
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Chuffin
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I actually work as a copywriter where I design and write brochures/mailouts/adverts etc. for the company. It doesn't involve as much travel as some of the other positions here but I still get at least 2 weeks in the Alps in winter and at least 1 in summer. I got this through starting out as a sales rep and then pushing for work in another department when I knew that's what I wanted to do. It requires strong English language skills (which I blag half the time) and a keen eye for detail and design.
Oct 24 2012 5:04AM
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I_Am_Mod
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if the pay is good and the work is ok then why not ?

i've worked as an intern at a surveyors office for sometime now and it pays very well, the work is pretty boring but i have my own radio so its actually pretty chill and makes time fly by :)

on the other hand i also work as a zipline/treecourse/teambuilding guide/monitor and i must say i lovedoing that job so much more but it has its downside compared to office work, ie. i get paid less, i have to actually work pretty hard, sometimes i have difficult customers to deal with, rainy days suck, its on freelance base and sometimes when another guide falls out i have to do the work of 2 or even 3 people, and lastly, i have a pretty big responsibillity ....
Oct 24 2012 5:35AM
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Bodhisattva_
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So if I am from America and speak english would it be required to learn a second language? I think it would be really cool to learn japanese and be some sort of Japan sales rep for an American company.
Oct 24 2012 4:12PM
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NotoriousT.S.E
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Managed to get an internship over winter break as a sales analyst. Sitting in a cubicle staring at a computer screen for 8 hours isnt really my cup of tea.
Dec 19 2012 6:21PM
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H8CH
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Welcome to the real world...

Kick ass, make $$$, network like a fucker, retire early... and make the most of it... there is always stuff to learn no matter what you do. Dismissing it just because kids think it's uncool is stupid.... and as you get older you'll realize that.

My office is cool as fuck - and i get paid to travel the world, i get long weekends 2 times a month and paid enough to be able to travel to any cool ski resort i can for long weekends on those i get off... Jackson Hole, Breck, Utah, California... wherever the snow is good.

yeah i'd say it's not too bad.... it pays for you to have a pretty good life.
Dec 19 2012 7:50PM
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NotoriousT.S.E
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^ Well that sounds interesting, what type of work do you do?
Dec 19 2012 8:32PM
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Alpentalic.
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I've taken a couple accounting classes at school and kind of enjoyed it.  Does anybody here have experience as an accountant?  Is it a good job for getting lots of days on the mountain?  I would imagine if you get your work done consistantly there would be some flexibility in the hours, but I could be wrong. 

Dec 19 2012 9:59PM
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H8CH
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Engineer for an oil/gas/reknewables major....
Dec 19 2012 11:32PM
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