Alaska jobs

[snowfire]

Any AK locals know of a good place to get ahold of job listings? Any good websites etc?

thx.

[dude_le_skibum]

i would be up for more info too. like i could make it in spring.

how does green card work for canadians ?

[bigAK]

check out the classifieds at http://www.adn.com (anchorage's newspaper)...

[fez]

Speaking of which, ONS, if you should find yourself finding a couple experienced restaurant professionals, one of which (me) is reasonably skilled in web programming , for any sort of employment in your heli-ski operation, just drop me a message!

[Fieldys Nuts]

try searching "alaska job bank" that should get you to the state site with all kinds of job listings.
F.N.

[gonzo]

you two should buy a boat and become king crab fisherpeople. i hear that is where the big bucks are...and then maybe be smoke-jumpers to get some extra cash on nights and weekends.

[Stikki]

Originally posted by gonzo
you two should buy a boat and become king crab fisherpeople.

Yeah, because a 100+ foot boat and commercial king crab license are practically free!

The money is in opies anyway (opelio crab).

[grrrr]

I first got to Alaska when the money was rolling in from king crab and shrimp. I would go to the bar in Kodiak and drink for free all night as highliners rang the bell to buy 200 people a round. It was routine in those days to cash a $10,000 check at the bar at midnight.

At Solly's they had a jewelry store inside the bar, open all night. You could buy jewelry for the bar girls, but to really prove you were successful, you would pay cash for a crab watch. Two gold crabs encrusted with jewels and gold nuggets, emeralds or diamonds for eyes holding the face of the watch. Worth about a summer paycheck for most maggots.

I wonder how many fisherman woke up in the Shelikof motel...girl gone, watch gone.

[ak_powder_monkey]

There's usually alot of jobs working at lodges as a cook from may- september,

[snowfire]

thanks guys! I'll check into some things... unfortunately, buying a fishing boat probably isn't an option. I would need something that would pay my rent and let me ski, and wouldn't require being rich at the beginning.

so next question, where do you ski? Where besides Alyeska can you go, if you don't own a heli or something?

[gonzo]

Originally posted by snowfire
...I would need something that would pay my rent and let me ski, and wouldn't require being rich at the beginning...

slow pitch...

[ak_powder_monkey]

Originally posted by snowfire
thanks guys! I'll check into some things... unfortunately, buying a fishing boat probably isn't an option. I would need something that would pay my rent and let me ski, and wouldn't require being rich at the beginning.

so next question, where do you ski? Where besides Alyeska can you go, if you don't own a heli or something?

Aly, Alpenglow, or hiking everything else is midwest style

Alp is sick sic sic stuff it only lacks steeps but on pow days the fresh doesn't get skiied out ever, it ends up getting wind packed before it gets skied out

[AKturnanburn]

Snowfire, when are you thinking of coming up? right now the jobs are obviously getting filled up for winter so you better hurry...

A great time to come up is early April there is good coverage and usually some awesome late season storms that roll through. it also gives you a couple of months to get leads on solid summer jobs starting in late may/early june.

good luck...

[dude_le_skibum]

will wash dishes for heli time, oh i can program too, but would rather wash dishes.

[Plakespear]

Originally posted by Stikki


The money is in opies anyway (opelio crab).

But there's even MORE money in OPIATES!!!

And it's probably safer than commercial fishing

[iceman]

Originally posted by grrrr
I first got to Alaska when the money was rolling in from king crab and shrimp. I would go to the bar in Kodiak and drink for free all night as highliners rang the bell to buy 200 people a round. It was routine in those days to cash a $10,000 check at the bar at midnight.

At Solly's they had a jewelry store inside the bar, open all night. You could buy jewelry for the bar girls, but to really prove you were successful, you would pay cash for a crab watch. Two gold crabs encrusted with jewels and gold nuggets, emeralds or diamonds for eyes holding the face of the watch. Worth about a summer paycheck for most maggots.

I wonder how many fisherman woke up in the Shelikof motel...girl gone, watch gone.

Nice. Well said. Closest thing to the Wild Wild West we'll see in our lifetimes.

I wonder what that dude was talkin' about, a hundred foot crab boat? Moron.

[BobMc]

Originally posted by iceman
I wonder what that dude was talkin' about, a hundred foot crab boat? Moron.

BIG CRABS!


BobMc

[iceman]

Originally posted by BobMc
BIG CRABS!

I AM a little itchy, now that you mention it.

[Stikki]

Originally posted by iceman
I wonder what that dude was talkin' about, a hundred foot crab boat? Moron.

Huh? All the crab boats I've been on that are used in the Bering Sea crab fisheries are 100+ foot boats. Most are around 130-150 feet long. How else are you going to brave 35 foot seas with a load of 200 1-ton crab pots?

[gonzo]

Originally posted by Stikki
Huh? All the crab boats I've been on that are used in the Bering Sea crab fisheries are 100+ foot boats. Most are around 130-150 feet long. How else are you going to brave 35 foot seas with a load of 200 1-ton crab pots?

by rockin out with your fuckin cock out my man! yeeeow!

[iceman]

Originally posted by Stikki
Huh? All the crab boats I've been on that are used in the Bering Sea crab fisheries are 100+ foot boats. Most are around 130-150 feet long. How else are you going to brave 35 foot seas with a load of 200 1-ton crab pots?

it's possible that I was inebriated when I wrote that.

[grrrr]

100 feet would be small for Bering Sea crabbing. The pots are closer to 800 lbs, not counting line, floats, bait or crabs, but whose counting.

Coming in full, they will often weigh close in to one ton.

I still have divots in my shinbones from where the pots would hit as I landed them on the launcher. Amazing how I hardly registered the pain when it happened. I think I was just more or less focused on staying alive than something as minor as a bone chipping and cracking.

[bad_roo]

Originally posted by gonzo
by rockin out with your fuckin cock out my man! yeeeow!

You gonna let your cock get near about a grillion ANGRY CRABS? Those fuckers are bound to be pissed about being dragged from the depths of the abyss onto a boat only to be presented with a non-crustacean playing air guitar with his man meat.

[bad_roo]

Originally posted by gonzo
you two should buy a boat and become king crab fisherpeople. i hear that is where the big bucks are...and then maybe be pole-smokers to get some extra cash on nights and weekends.

?

[snowfire]

If I end up moving to AK, it would probably be in May, because I have to graduate. Things are in the very beginning stages...but I am giving it some serious thought.