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Thread: Life/Career in the mountains
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05-17-2016, 01:19 PM #26
plumbing is dirty work...stick with electricity.
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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05-17-2016, 01:31 PM #27
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05-17-2016, 01:35 PM #28
What about a singer?
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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05-17-2016, 01:39 PM #29
Hotel and restaurant managment? I don't know anything about it, but someone has to manage all those resorts.
It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
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05-17-2016, 01:52 PM #30Good-lookin' wool
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05-17-2016, 02:02 PM #31
^Yep, fuck college, go to trade school and become an electrician. Take winters off. If you're a good employee they'll always take you back come spring.
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05-17-2016, 02:08 PM #32
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05-17-2016, 02:08 PM #33
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05-17-2016, 02:23 PM #34"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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05-17-2016, 02:35 PM #35Registered User
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Did the seasonal thing for awhile. Best thing you can do is educate the young man on budgeting and planning for retirement.
Don't discount the long term effect of not contributing to retirement accounts as a seasonal making subsistence wages. As noted, lots of people do well the trades. Lots of people also seem to get caught unprepared for the inevitable downturns that come with that as well.
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05-17-2016, 02:35 PM #36
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05-17-2016, 02:40 PM #37
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05-17-2016, 02:41 PM #38
Depends on what it means to the kid to be "in the mountains."
If proximity to mountains is enough, SLC = pretty much any sort of job you can think of. Substitute other near-to-the-mountains cities/towns and you get the idea.
But if you mean living in a tiny remote town, that's a whole different question.
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05-17-2016, 02:46 PM #39
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05-17-2016, 02:54 PM #40
IT / Tech. Good money. A ton of jobs where you can telecommute. I can basically work anywhere with an internet connection and have a super flexible schedule. Even though I don't live in the mountains (I easily could and my family just closed on a second home there) I'll often ski mornings while answering a few emails on my phone while riding the lift - no PTO time needed.
As for trades, well, on the aforementioned second home I'm having trouble finding an electrician and a plumber on short notice because they're all booked up, so that market is far from saturated.
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05-17-2016, 03:16 PM #41
This has been my experience. Most of the regular people, ie not trustfunders or those who made money elsewhere and decided to move here, I know decided they wanted to live here and then figured out how to make that work for the quality of life they wanted. Furthermore there is no magic job that will let you play in the mountains a lot and still make good bank. Not many successful(depending on your ideas about that idea) mtn town people I know are core/work-just-enough to ski types. They are around but most of those people washout after a few years. People that make it here work just as much as they play and take it just as seriously for a few reasons:
1. Living in a mtn town, especially Aspen, is usually pretty expensive. Even more so if you want to raise a family here.
2. People that want to live here and be successful tend to be intelligent, motivated, competitive people and take their day jobs just as seriously as their skiing, unless of course it's a powder day.
But at 12 years old tell him to stop stressing about that far in the future, work hard in school regardless of the subject, get as smart as possible, and spend all of his free time outdoors."They don't think it be like it is, but it do."
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05-17-2016, 03:23 PM #42
Life/Career in the mountains
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05-17-2016, 03:41 PM #43
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05-17-2016, 04:04 PM #44
If your kid wants to live in a mountain town then he should move there after high school/college and make it work. Once he's there he'll figure it out. I moved with nothing lined up and found a job/place to live once I got there.
Trying to plan things out at 12 might be a little early but summer jobs in landscaping/construction/catering would be good experience that translates to decent paying jobs in most ski towns. As others have said learning trade skills is a way to make good money without a 4 year degree.
I've done accounting for a couple ski resorts and while the money might not be the best the benefits have been pretty great in my opinion. I get to ski almost every day of the winter and on powder days my boss doesn't expect me in till 11 or 12, plus early lift access is nice on busy mornings. As baby bear pointed out having the right boss/office environment has a large part to do with having the flexibly to get out of the office. The summer is similar a similar schedule flying paragliders in the morning before work.
A friend of mine is an accountant and works remotely. With cloud based software there seem to be more and more jobs you can do from anywhere you have a good internet connection. I have other friends in town that do bookkeeping and seem to be as busy as they want, often turning away new clients because they have enough work."College sailing isn't about who wins the most races, its about who can stand in the morning"
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05-17-2016, 04:15 PM #45
I'm working on my early retirement
same here - but for the most part it's nbd to work on a powder day once in awhile. I've found a ton of people move to mtn/ski towns and then scoff at working office hours, but I'd way rather be a weekend warrior/ dawn patroller and easily get 50+ days in then have to work the same or more elsewhere to have enough money to get up here on the w/e's and maybe get 10 or a dozen days
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05-17-2016, 04:40 PM #46
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05-17-2016, 04:58 PM #47
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05-17-2016, 05:03 PM #48
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05-17-2016, 05:34 PM #49Best Skier on the Mountain
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05-17-2016, 05:55 PM #50
I think people mentioned nursing earlier too, but I second that for a solid mtn town career.
around here they work a 3 or 4 day schedule and there's so much flexibility and if driven etc there is a ton more money to be made in various specialties (anesthesiology etc)
and unlike other mtn town jobs it's one of the higher ends that you can really move around different places and still command a decent salary
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