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05-09-2017, 06:12 PM #76Registered User
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05-09-2017, 06:17 PM #77
thankfully im not hourly and get paid piece work
and if the pieces dont pay enough
i don't fuckin work for u"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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05-09-2017, 07:15 PM #78
Instructor is the wrong answer.
I went that path in my mid-20s. I skied every day, but if I had the chance to do it again I'd go evening food service without hesitation.
Pick front or back of the house, dont show up baked. Do your job and do it well.
Ski every pow day from opening till early afternoon.
Plenty of day time on shitty snow days to do other life stuff.
As discussed, the other option is live cheap, work your ass off doing manual labor of some sort all summer, budget well, buy your pass, and pay bills with savings from Dec-April...
Maybe try a combo of both. Just set and stick to a budget.
Good luck, hope it works out!Last edited by JayPowHound; 05-09-2017 at 07:33 PM.
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05-09-2017, 07:51 PM #79
Buy a beater car and deliver pizzas. Delivery drivers make pretty good money and you're all alone in your car most of the night.
When I was a surf bum one summer this is what I did. Surfed everyday. Bonus, usually got out by 930 after the dinner rush and still had time to party.
Get a cheap Honda fit or something. Learn to fix it by watching YouTube.
If I could pull it off in Hawaii with a ridiculous cost of living then you should be able to make it happen in Utah.
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05-09-2017, 09:35 PM #80The JONGiest
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Considering doing a summer job up at the hill to try and get a better winter position, but I feel that's still not a good option... have a different construction esque gig that would probably be a better setup for saving money
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05-09-2017, 11:28 PM #81
OP, you sound like you would make someone that depends on his business to feed his family a wonderful employee. To ski 7 days a week I would suggest
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ice cream man route- own the routeLast edited by wooley12; 05-09-2017 at 11:57 PM.
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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05-10-2017, 09:31 PM #82Registered User
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05-11-2017, 07:15 AM #83
Swing or graveshift technician at semiconductor, biomed, manufacturing plant. Career job, good pay usually and ski every day! Need some skills though and the typical ski town doesnt have many options in those fields although slc, denver, pdx, seattle they are numerous
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05-11-2017, 11:50 AM #84Registered User
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retirement
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05-11-2017, 12:56 PM #85
IME, I would agree but you have to work at something before you can retire from it. The OP seems to want a career that requires no or almost no work. I had a job like for ten years that paid very well. 35 wks/yr. Mostly 3 day weeks consisting of 10 actual working hours per week. Legal. No degree required. I don't think they allow grown up jobs like that anymore.
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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05-11-2017, 03:17 PM #86
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05-11-2017, 03:33 PM #87The JONGiest
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I'm technically a statistics emphasis in my econ degree... and was going to pursue a stats degree but actually plan on doing grad school for that sometime in the future instead. Def. not afraid of math, actually trying to get in to data viz type stuff.
Most of my coding is stats related stuff
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05-11-2017, 05:03 PM #88
Have your dad front the money for a food cart at the Lagoon Amusement Park and sell waffles, bears ears or whatever it is that Mormons think of as junk food. I've already done some marketing research for you
"The food at most of the stands is standard amusement park fare. Nothing spectacular, but will taste pretty darn good after hours of walking around in the sun. "
You're welcomeA few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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05-11-2017, 07:46 PM #89
You should sell blow in Aspen. Why settle for only powder days, when you can have powder nights too?
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05-11-2017, 07:50 PM #90The JONGiest
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I shall provide quality brats and beer. Not so much cause it sells, but because I like brats and beer.
Dude keep it on the dl alright, like fucks sake you don't build an empire by screaming to the heavens you're selling blow. But for real, I'm a purveyor of fine powder if ya'll catch my wind drift
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05-11-2017, 07:52 PM #91
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05-11-2017, 08:34 PM #92
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05-11-2017, 11:26 PM #93
Not my idea. I worked one summer in an amusement park in HS. I was the lazy ass employee manning the Skee Ball game at $1.25/hr while the college kid across the way was killing it selling crispy sugared waffles.
OP - Brats? Beer? Think cost of goods. $0.27 of flour, sugar over the counter for $2.75 and some of that in cash. "Lemon water with that? Gimme a dollar and thank me." The last college course I flunked was stats. Taught me a lot.A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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05-12-2017, 08:24 AM #94
You can be my house cleaner.
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05-12-2017, 05:03 PM #95The JONGiest
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05-12-2017, 07:25 PM #96
Yeah, while you tune up the Wags
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05-12-2017, 07:32 PM #97
Not bad. Not bad at all. Was thinking more like calculus and algorithms, but you might have a niche you can exploit for databasing and such.
The only problem is that it takes good contacts to really exploit a niche. Your's isn't terribly esoteric, but to do it as an independent contractor, you need contacts in the biz.
If you have them, go for it.
Grad school is a good plan, actually. You can figure out a good schedule that let's you ski in between studying and TAing. For a STEM masters, you might pull 20 or 30 grand.
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05-14-2017, 06:29 PM #98
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05-14-2017, 07:28 PM #99The JONGiest
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05-15-2017, 12:26 AM #100
Heed this advice grasshopper, and you might never miss a pow day again.
Buy a beater car and deliver pizzas. Delivery drivers make pretty good money and you're all alone in your car most of the night.
When I was a surf bum one summer this is what I did. Surfed everyday. Bonus, usually got out by 930 after the dinner rush and still had time to party.
Get a cheap Honda fit or something. Learn to fix it by watching YouTube.
If I could pull it off in Hawaii with a ridiculous cost of living then you should be able to make it happen in Utah.
Get your priorities in order, don't party too much, gamble, or chase high maintainance tail around and you can have it pretty good. You can still have some travel flexibility, you can still do summer fun things, you don't have to be on your feet with people in your face all night, you don't have to be there till 3 in the morning, and you can ski pow on any day of the week provided you don't do day shifts. Day shifts are the worst, don't get sucked into that, you are better off as a ski instructor."The skis just popped me up out of the snow and I went screaming down the hill on a high better than any heroin junkie." She Ra
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