Replying to Long-term ski bumming experiences?

I know there are some crazy people out there who made it work. Everybody was right, it is nearly impossible to limit a gap-year to one year, especially if high school was a bad experience. I don't have much confidence that I will make the college thing worth my money.

This living off of spaghetti, busting ass in the summer and working a night-job in the winter thing is fucking wonderful. I'm leaning towards doing this for awhile and working my way up at the resort and what-not.

Wanted to hear about some of your experiences living cheap and skiing every day!