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  1. #26
    dentistry, obiously. we're all dentists.

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    get on a wildland fire crew, the job is tough as hell but exciting and you can make some bank if it's a busy season. If you can, try to get on a hot shot crew, you wont have a life all summer but you get to travel and are out on fires all the time. Hot shot crews are pretty bad ass but sometimes they like to take green folk and mold them from the start regardless of experience. The camaraderie is incredible and you wont have to work a day all winter.

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    Airline pilot 60 hours a month, free tix anywhere, 6 figure salary. Otherwise fishing guide/ commercial king crabber/ comercial fisherman (fishing is generally summer with decent wages, maybe)
    Its not that I suck at spelling, its that I just don't care

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    My sales job offers me autonomy and pays well, but you're only as free to goof off as you are successful when you're on the job. It's all aboot hitting quota, then the boss lets me do as I wish -but they don't make it as easy to make quota as I'd like.
    another Handsome Boy graduate

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    Set up a grpw op in BC
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    NEVER become a ski patroller!!!

    Talk to WOODSY he is GM of a Hotel and tears it up everyday he wants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mtbakerskier
    Set up a grpw op in BC
    ding ding ding - we have a winnner!

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    Quote Originally Posted by SPREAD EAGLE
    NEVER become a ski patroller!!!

    Talk to WOODSY he is GM of a Hotel and tears it up everyday he wants.
    you are sadly mistaken.
    I dont ski as often as I would like,
    there are good weeks and bad weeks.
    I think I have caught 3 solisundays this year?
    Hotel jobs I had where I DID ski every day
    -PM fornt desk 3-11
    -Night Audit 11pm-8 am
    -Night Hotel Manager 330pm-11 or 12 dependent ( this is the job I had when my dad told his friends I was his hero)

    also,
    bellmen, door man or valet, takes a year or so of time to get the good shifts though.

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    Snowcat Operator

    -Only requires a drivers license and maybe a decent driving record.
    -Pays better than most resort jobs that don't get tips.
    -Almost as fun as skiing during powder nights on steep slopes. Sliding the machines is a hell of a rush, especially when you are new.
    -You always know exactly how the conditions will be the next day.
    -Takes years to learn if you have decent terrain, which stimulates your mind.

    -Swing shift means you work in the evening get to bed by 12:30, still can get up for first chair on pow days.
    -Graveshift means having 3-4 days off and on work days working from 12am till 8-9:30 depending on how much work there is to do.

    I am generally lazy when it comes to getting out of bed, but I had no problem skiing all the time working those hours on a fulltime schedule.

    AND THE NUMBER ONE REASON TO BE A GROOMER BESIDES PICKING UP CHICKS IN A 200,000 DOLLAR MACHINE......

    -Sunrises and sunsets.

    It can be boring if you are retarded and become relegated to grooming beginner runs. But they come with a heater, a CD player and a seasons pass. I should have never left that job and stayed doing it for the rest of my life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steezus Christ
    Snowcat Operator

    -Only requires a drivers license and maybe a decent driving record.
    -Pays better than most resort jobs that don't get tips.
    -Almost as fun as skiing during powder nights on steep slopes. Sliding the machines is a hell of a rush, especially when you are new.
    -You always know exactly how the conditions will be the next day.
    -Takes years to learn if you have decent terrain, which stimulates your mind.

    -Swing shift means you work in the evening get to bed by 12:30, still can get up for first chair on pow days.
    -Graveshift means having 3-4 days off and on work days working from 12am till 8-9:30 depending on how much work there is to do.

    I am generally lazy when it comes to getting out of bed, but I had no problem skiing all the time working those hours on a fulltime schedule.

    AND THE NUMBER ONE REASON TO BE A GROOMER BESIDES PICKING UP CHICKS IN A 200,000 DOLLAR MACHINE......

    -Sunrises and sunsets.

    It can be boring if you are retarded and become relegated to grooming beginner runs. But they come with a heater, a CD player and a seasons pass. I should have never left that job and stayed doing it for the rest of my life.
    I always thought it would be a fun job, but then again I like to drive everything I get my hands on. It seems as if it would be a bit difficult to get with no experience however, you only need X amount of groomers

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    Actually most people think it looks boring because the machines don't move very fast. They just don't realize it feels fast on steep snowy slopes while you are worrying about tracks, blade, rear implement and the cd you are trying to find. It shouldn't be too hard to get if you just bug the mountain manager incessantly and let them know how much you would like to do it and how fun it looks. Thats how I got my first grooming job at Deer Valley when I was 18.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SPREAD EAGLE
    NEVER become a ski patroller!!!

    Talk to WOODSY he is GM of a Hotel and tears it up everyday he wants.
    Not everyday, but today.
    today was $

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    More you can find when patience you have paduwan ski bum

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    Telecommute???
    Work for a big, soulless, company for a few years, find a position that requires some expertise, but not a lot of interaction with others (some sort of data crunching), then propose the idea of leaving the office and working from home, as a contractor or consultant. Next, move to a ski town and hopefully make enough green to live comfortably. Ski during the day, and work at night.

    Of course the down side is that you are the first to get the ax in a down year.

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    I'd have to say: stock broker. C'mon everybody's doin' it.

    yep.

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    Evening Concierge= $$$
    Bartendings a good gig but very few places are gonna let someone new roll in and grab all the evening shifts.
    Waiting tables is good as you can usually find someone to cover or pickup shifts. Money is dependent on staffing and business.
    Ski teching was also a decent job. Always had fresh loved gear, good bro deal gig. If the shops well staffed and you can pull 4 hour breaks even better.
    Night tuning= $$$
    A lot of resorts offer Host gigs work so many shifts for your pass.
    A lot of my freinds have bailed on the resort thing, bought passes and found their own night jobs.
    The lift mech's were I work sure seem to be on the hill a lot.
    If your into traversing a lot ski patrol 4 U a lot of due paying in that feild.
    At least in my experience.
    "When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
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    Sfb, are you going to be around here next season?

    As far as jobs go, just rememeber your doing this to ski, not work. Find something at night, and you'll be happy skiing all day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TeleAl
    We had this thread already.

    Stay in school, save your money, start ski bumming when your in your early thirties when you can afford it.

    Don't have kids (in or out of marriage).
    I sure hope that wasn't the conclusion of the thread. Start ski bumming in your early 30's? When your body starts to break down? Who says you'll live to 30? You can always afford it. Why wait?
    Avoiding the real world since 1979

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    Talking

    It depends.
    Balls Deep in the 'Ho

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    I vote for waiting tables - your pass isn't include which kind of stinks but depending on the place - you can make a killing and actually live very comfortably and you can ski every day all day. I quit my real job in Jackson and actually make more waiting tables and I can play all day. Also, most places will give you a discount on your pass and huge discount on food/booze but like the rest of the board said - as long as you have your days free......
    Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MOHSHSIHd
    well, my family is in the carwash business back in NJ....


    i was thinking about following my dreams or some shit like that, but now im thinking i may get a business degree and then help my dad expand out west....ski everyday and work by night....

    i dont know....thats a cop out though
    The family business can be a really great opportunity to skip many years of dues paying...

    You know that old saying "Do something you love and you'll never work a day in your life"? I think it doesn't make sense for most of us. First off, I have several things I absolutely love doing including climbing and skiing. Years ago people would suggest I could be a climbing guide or ski patrol or some such. The problem is having zero money SUCKS BALLS and seriously impacts your chance of having fun. The things I love doing don't pay squat. I don't expect to love my job - that's why they have to pay me to keep me coming back. Now if you love doing something that pays reasonably, go for it. I hear dentistry is a lot of fun...

    Life for sure isn't about money, not even close, but you have to have a balance. Dirtbagging it gets old when you are eating top ramen and still can't afford $100 in gas money to tear over to Utah for the dump of the season.

    If you can work with your Dad you should think real seriously about grabbing that opportunity. You could be a lucky one that gets to skip forward to the lifestyle where powder days midweek are yours for the taking and you still get to live well. Most folks pay a lot of dues to get there on their own.

    On the other hand if you really have a dream you should follow it. My problem was that my dream was (and is) to have no job!

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    Quote Originally Posted by This End Up
    Telecommute???
    Work for a big, soulless, company for a few years, find a position that requires some expertise, but not a lot of interaction with others (some sort of data crunching), then propose the idea of leaving the office and working from home, as a contractor or consultant. Next, move to a ski town and hopefully make enough green to live comfortably. Ski during the day, and work at night.

    Of course the down side is that you are the first to get the ax in a down year.
    This is my hope for next year. The axe thing is definitely something to think about, but the way things go around here I figure I'd be almost as likely to take the bullet staying in the office as working from home.

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    I'd try for Kind Bud Manicurist if I were you.If you're lucky after your internship you can step up to the job of personal mamagramist!
    Calmer than you dude

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    find a couger...


    that would rule..

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