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Best job to mix with skiing ?

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Bromium
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What do you think is the best job to have ?
A job where you can mix skiing and working

I'm so confused, plz help my skier's mind !
Nov 12 2013 9:37PM
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JAHBRADOR
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professional weed smoker.
Nov 12 2013 9:38PM
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AndrewUtter
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Work at a local ski shop, so you deals on your equipment, and you are by all the stuff that you love. Win-win situation
Nov 12 2013 9:42PM
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cannaguts666
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JAH BRADOR! THATS WHATS GOOD MANG
Nov 12 2013 9:44PM
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Skierra69
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If you can handle kids, be a ski instructor. You get a free pass to the resort your working and there's always that off chance that you end up teaching a future pro. Then when you're watching them shred in the X-games you can tell all of your friends that you taught them.
Nov 12 2013 9:45PM
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SnowMiser
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ask Logan Imlach
Nov 12 2013 9:48PM
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humpty
Posts: 1190 - Karma: 3,162
Ski shop or dairy queen its open only in the summer, or park crew
Nov 12 2013 9:59PM
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GrahamGould
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Bar Tender. Ski all day, and work at night
Nov 12 2013 10:00PM
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future-spins
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I have a friend that is the marketing and web manager for a fairly small resort and he gets to shred alot
Nov 12 2013 10:02PM
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snakerton
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welfare.
Nov 12 2013 10:03PM
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artrud
Posts: 598 - Karma: 1,471
professional skier
stripper
hooker
Nov 12 2013 10:07PM
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cyberginger
Posts: 574 - Karma: 7,083
Private ski coach?
Nov 12 2013 10:09PM
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PM4FreeJiberish
Posts: 447 - Karma: 3,533
I hear being a Pro skier goes pretty well with it
Nov 13 2013 12:49AM
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Nieds
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Ski patrol would be sick.
Nov 13 2013 1:00AM
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.Asain-Skiier
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drug dealer
Nov 13 2013 1:01AM
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theVan
Posts: 204 - Karma: 225
ski shop! sure, you have to deal with some lame shit but every entry level job has that. Bonuses are free passes, great deals on gear, lots of cool experience, good connections, and room to move up.
Nov 13 2013 1:03AM
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lineskier10
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ya this or a restaurant job cooking dinner
Nov 13 2013 1:14AM
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SnowshoeThompson
Posts: 1095 - Karma: 1,433
snow cat operator. I get paid to sit on my ass, listen to music and push snow around. If you work a morning shift you get off just before the lifts open up to public.
Nov 13 2013 1:15AM
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DaNinjew
Posts: 240 - Karma: 44
truckers drive all night ski all day
Nov 13 2013 2:42AM
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250r
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yea you'd probably make more money doing that then cooking, but you'd want to make sure you wouldn't be getting shifts going till like 2 am every night. i cook mainly because i just like to cook, but where i work we only do dinner, so i normally start work at 3, maybe 1:30 or 2 if its going to be busy. I can ski to work so i can stay on the hill until abut 2:30. Then ill get done work any where between 9-12, sometimes earlier if we're overstaffed that day. can be a bit hard sometimes, but i normally can get home and get to sleep early enough to feel well rested waking up early for pow.
Nov 13 2013 2:52AM
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HuckNorris44
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Trustifarian
Nov 13 2013 3:12AM
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milk_man
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I've heard it's actually way harder than it looks.. Takes quite a bit of training to be able to drive it properly
Nov 13 2013 12:14PM
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Gherbs
Posts: 530 - Karma: 903
park crew
Nov 13 2013 12:16PM
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mehregan15
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gearhead at backcountry.com... i work 1:30-10pm, and shred all morning.
Nov 13 2013 12:16PM
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Dr.Dickless
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Sales Rep for a Ski company
Nov 13 2013 12:17PM
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SFB
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SKI patrol
Nov 13 2013 12:28PM
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Mr.Huck
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A Blow Job.
Nov 13 2013 1:14PM
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-RB-
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Free ski team coach
Nov 13 2013 1:15PM
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noparking
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ski patrol
Nov 13 2013 1:24PM
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mooseman077
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Start slangin that cane. Just head to Cecilias and start stackin cash.
Nov 13 2013 1:42PM
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RimJobber
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I work at a waterpark during the summer as one of their their pools/slide maintenance supervisors. Rack up the cash over summer so I have money the rest of the year. This year I'm working at a local resort to get enough to move out though.
Nov 13 2013 1:46PM
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Vino
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An office job nice enough to pays you a good amount, give you day off when you want them (powder days), and good amount of vacations week (for ski trips). And you can also ski on weekends and nights.

Pretty much all I need
Nov 13 2013 5:01PM
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Peter.
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heart surgeon
Nov 13 2013 5:14PM
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howlongcanausern
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on-mountain office job....accounting/hr/it/marketing
Nov 13 2013 5:24PM
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TheLastMohican
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custodial arts
Nov 13 2013 5:31PM
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PeppermillReno
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This.

I think its hard to get welfare though but unemployment is the fucking tits.

If you can get laid off through no fault of your own from a job in November and you do all the bullshit to get extensions (like section 31 I think it is training its really easy to sign up for some bullshit training and not do it and collect another 4-5 months) you can get free money for 2 ski seasons and a summer.



I scalp tickets on stubhub.  Pretty good ski bum job.  I miss my unemployment though I'd give anything to have it back and get a free 400 bucks a week :(.
Nov 13 2013 6:57PM
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PeppermillReno
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For a more serious answer any job that is second shift (4-midnight or so) is going to be good.

Human services is a great place to look for these.  Get a sweet gig working with some chill folks with disabilities or work in a nursing home.  The pay isn't horrible its more than you'd earn on the mountain.

Just avoid the really shitty jobs (disabled people are not all considered equal some of them fucking suck and are assholes) and you'll have a sweet set up.


I worked in a group home for a year.  I loathed working second shift.  BUt this was in Boston MA not somewhere near the mountains if you had that job in Reno or Salt Lake City you'd be golden.


Nursing homes and other low level human service jobs are always hiring there is no way you will not get a 2nd shift job at one of them if you want it.  AND THERE ARE SOME SERIOUSLY HEADY GIGS IN THAT FEILD MOST OF THE PEOPLE ARE LEGIT AS HELL AND JUST NEED A LIFT TO THE GROCERY STORE AN SOMEONE TO KICK IT WITH!


My only words of warning are if you work shitty jobs like this as an adult there is no going back.  Unless you have prior experience doing skilled work in an office you can kiss ever having a good job again goodbye.  Jobs like what I described will not work in your favor on resumes if you want to get a good job.

I went to a top 50 US News+World Reports University and I'll never be able to get a legit job in my life because I have a 3 year gap (and growing) in employment and my only jobs I have ever done are sub teaching (not a bad ski bum job too) or working with developmentally disabled folks.


Hope this helps.
Nov 13 2013 7:11PM
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cream-n-bacon
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Nov 13 2013 7:23PM
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methscratchface
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You have much to learn aspiring dirtbag......
Nov 13 2013 7:35PM
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SFB
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solid 1st post.
Nov 13 2013 8:11PM
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El.
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I know that this probably isn't an option unless youre twelve and deciding what you want to be when you grow up, but dentists have a TON of vacation time.

My dentist sure takes a lot of days off to ski
Nov 13 2013 8:30PM
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katrina
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i am a grad student and i teach human anatomy cadaver lab at the univ. so i ski by day and chop people up by night.
Nov 13 2013 8:37PM
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PositiveSpin
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I'm a crisis therapist in Michigan. Every week I have a either a 3 day weekend or a 4 day weekend. The beauty of working 12 hour shifts...
Nov 13 2013 9:03PM
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PositiveSpin
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Or a Janitor if you want to be a dick about it.
Nov 13 2013 9:06PM
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T.L.
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This guy knows what he's talkin about.  There's not a whole lot better than stepping out of the snow cat at the top of the mountain as the suns coming up.
Nov 13 2013 9:34PM
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CoryFlynn
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Give lift dome
Nov 13 2013 11:22PM
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stephengillboy
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Weigh out your options:
9-5 "real" job=30-40 days when the mountain is crowded

Lifty=1st tracks on a pow day, but its cold as shit and you're stuck watching everyone shred the rest of the day(especially shitty on a pow day)

Ski school= don't buy into their bullshit, they have to ski with 4 year olds 5 days a week for at least 3 years, then they're still stuck skiing with gapers from texas. "You know how you can tell if someone is a ski instructor? They'll tell you!!"

Shop employee= badass discounts on all your gear, plus pass and other discounted tickets. The only problem is the amount of skiing, you get stuck inside on a lot of awesome days.

Hospitality(Bar/Restaurant/Bell/Valet)= Get the night shifts, you'll make a ton of cash and get to ski EVERY day from open to close. Honestly can't beat it.

My advice is to never get a "real" job. Work in hospitality, find someone in a shop and make them your BFF and then bribe lifties with nugs to get that early chair.
Nov 14 2013 1:25AM
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assface
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Work construction in the summer and live with as few expenses during the winter. A lot of jobs in the ski industry will not actually let you ski as much as you would like to imagine
Nov 14 2013 3:57AM
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PKNeison
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A groomer, instructor, pro skier, ski bum
Nov 14 2013 6:44AM
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Afterbang.no
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Well all you guys hating in ski instructors.. I teach 9- 12 year old kids to ski park, so basicly i ski park with kids for money.. it's pretty dope! And it's awesome to watch them progress over time, and see how stoked they get when they land their first 3's and 5's etc
Nov 14 2013 8:35AM
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Bock
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yea my neighbor is a dentist and he goes on like 3 or 4 ski trips a year.

When you're young do lawn care. its only when skiing isn't, and if you're good and work hard you'll make way more than any real job.
Nov 14 2013 8:40AM
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