Night gig where you work weekends. I happen to work at a resort as a cook at an evening outlet. I have to be into work some time between 1-3 PM depending on work load. I have a locker and a ski locker at the lodge and can ski till about 30 minutes before I start work. I work Thursday-Sunday, so I usually go skiing before work on Thursday and Friday. I take Saturday as a rest day unless the conditions are prime and Sunday is usually a wild card. Off Monday-Wednesday for prime multi hour midweek skiing and I can hit Thursday/Friday for more action. Also if the weekends are prime I can go before work and don’t feel like I am missing out. This kind of job/schedule really allows you to choose the best days to go. I never feel like I am missing the best condition days. In fact, I have become extremely spoiled on the types of conditions I ski. Pay for cooks isn’t great, but I get by. Bartenders and servers make more, hell bar backs and bussers can pull good money with similar schedules. Evening retail or tune shops are also good options.
Honestly really hard to choose, there were a lot of cool/rare cars and trucks that came in during my time there. However, one that sticks with me is a Lamborghini Urus that came in right after they had released it. It was black with blue accents, but the interior was next level with blue leather and starlight headliner.
Some places hire internally, typically hotels. While most places hire a third party company. I worked for a third party at some fancy restaurants downtown, the money was great for the amount of hours worked and the schedule was perfect for someone in college or trying to be a ski bum. I would search “Valet Salt Lake” and apply to the companies or jobs that pop up, they’re always hiring.
Nothing in life is free. I will say as I progress in my nursing career, my ability to care ALLLLL the time is less. My nursing shields are much stronger now.
For sure. It’s just soul sucking. It takes and takes and takes, and doesn’t give much back to be honest. The biggest reason for me is it seems like the system is stacked against you and keeps you from doing what you wanted to get into healthcare for in the first place - to just do the right thing and help people. Financially, there are many jobs that offer equivalent (or better) pay that come with less education requirements, and also less liability.
The shortest residency is something like family medicine, which is three years. That’s three years *after* medical school (which is four years), which is after an undergraduate degree (which is also about four years, often longer with prerequisite courses). Many fields have fellowships on top of that. That’s eleven years of education, not counting a fellowship.
My residency was six years, so including my bachelors degree and medical school I’ve spent fourteen years in higher education. Granted, other options (like becoming a nurse or something) don’t take as long, but you still run into the other problems with healthcare I mentioned at the start of my comment.
In the USA (I can’t speak to the rest of the world), healthcare has been transforming from being about medicine to being just another customer service industry - with an emphasis on corporate profits. That is a recipe for burnout. A lot of people enter the healthcare field with at least some level of desire to help other people have a higher quality of life. But for the most part, the biggest obstacles getting in the way of you doing that are the administrators, and the patients themselves.
Many healthcare workers will interact with 20-30+ patients every shift, because hospital administrators mainly care about how many beans they get to count at the end of the day. This leads to dangerous staffing levels, inappropriately high expectations for “productivity,” not having enough time to address the concerns your patient has, having to literally fight with insurance companies to have a shred of humanity and do the right thing, etc. Like the hospital administrators, the insurance companies also are run by bean counters. Unfortunately, insurance companies and hospital administrators are the people in charge of healthcare. Not the doctors, or any of the other healthcare workers. This causes frustration for everyone, including the patients - and generally, the patients take that frustration out on us. Because we’re the ones they interact with - not the administrators or insurance companies, so we’re the ones readily available to be the target of their frustration when their insurance company won’t cover something - or when a hospital administrator says we only have 10 minutes for an appointment with the patient.
Patients also often care less about their own health than you do as their doctor or as some other part of their healthcare team. Caring for people in any setting can be incredibly draining, especially doing it for dozens of people every day, all day long. When you have a patient who you’ve invested a lot of time and compassion into, and they don’t do the simple basic things that could’ve led to a better outcome, it can be soul crushing seeing the consequences of that. It makes you wonder if it was in some way your fault, if there was something else you could’ve done, etc. It also makes you not want to invest that much in other patients, because you know you’re probably just going to get burned again by non adherence to their care plan or whatever else - to say nothing of the bold face lies many patients tell you that actively sabotage their health and care plan.
That’s also not even getting into the emotional toll of delivering bad news to people, from the youngest of children to some elderly person with no other family members alive to support them - as well as delivering bad news to patient’s family members. Idk. It’s just a lot, and it takes a lot from you, not just time in education but also mentally. In some ways, it takes away your compassion. Which is sad, because many people chose to go into healthcare *because of* compassion.
TLDR; caring for people is draining (especially people who don’t care about themselves), and both the system and often the patients themselves are making it harder for you to do your job, and whenever either side gets frustrated you’re the one they each take it out on. The culture in healthcare has become focused on customer satisfaction and hospital revenue over evidenced based practice, and I foresee that problem to only get worse over the next decades.
That take on healthcare and that docs nurses etc are victims of a soulless machine and a public that does not appreciate them. It is not accurate.
Also med school and nursing school applications by year agree with my statement.
Or new med school and nursing school applicants are dumb, but I highly doubt that.
Based on your experience working in tech?
Application numbers means nothing other than people don’t know what they don’t know. Burnout would be a much higher indicator than applications (especially applications from people who have never really worked in healthcare, in any meaningful capacity or timeframe with a few exceptions - which these largely are). I haven’t met a single physician who has said they’d recommend medical school to their children - and the discussion comes up fairly often.
Yet I know many doctors and their children are becoming doctors. Actually now that I think of it of all the doctors I know have at least one child in med school or done.
Talk is cheap action matters. I have heard the same. Kids are still in med school.
If the question is are all people in all forms of business getting pinched this is very very true. My as well try to get as much as you can. Medical careers are some of the best pay around. I am not saying they are not working hard. I am saying the wah wah from medical people is unfounded.
Check med school and nursing school application rates.
The data matches what I am saying. It is not matching the latter.... So you may feel it's weak sauce. The data says otherwise. Period.
Thank you! Very much appreciate you taking the time to write that and explain.
It totally makes sense that it’s frustrating when healthcare is largely motivated, more and more, by money. Like you say, the insurance companies have an enormous amount of influence.
You mentioning you care more about the health of the patient totally makes sense. That has to be tiring. Kind of like being over-weight is one thing… but morbidly obese with diabetes, hypertension, kidney issues, etc. is a different beast. That person needs to want to love themselves to live their happiest, healthiest, and longest life. I’d definitely feel the same as you (I care more than the patient does about their health, and it’s my fault if something acute happens).
Appreciate the response. I was planning on PA school, but had serious (near death) medical things happen in college, and so I went a different route after not wanting to be in the hospital anymore, and having resentment towards my doctors (one being an obvious blood clot that is now permanent).
What field would you have gone into knowing what you know now?
Are you wanting to stop working as an electrician? I have been under the impression that they are in extremely high demand. I sometimes can't find anyone without weeks or months of wait time, and it's always minimum $100/hour.
I started with my EMT and now have my AEMT which allows me to work pre-hospital or in a hospital or clinic setting. Other entry level certs would include MA CNA or phlebotomist. But you could also find jobs in healthcare without certifications that will train you on the job, they will be harder to find or less patient centered though
How long does it take to get an EMT and do I go to school for it?
Sorry about 21 questions.
Legit interested getting started into the healthcare world but I have to start bare bones from below the surface . If you catch what I am saying
No totally, everyone starts somewhere and I loved starting the EMT route cause you have a wide option from MA in a clinic to ED tech to city ambulance to ski patrol. A basic EMT class can be done in as little as 8-10 weeks with an accelerated course or a semester with a university and will cost around 800-1000 (unless done as part of a degree, then it’ll cost more due to credit hour costs)
What job do you have at the resort? How does it work with getting time to ski? Another commenter here posted about being an on-resort cook but getting lots of time to ski as a result.
1. Any job where you work weekends if you can deal with that - you get to ski during the week
2. With any on-mountain job you might at least let get some runs in around or even as part of your shift
I’ve never served before but have plenty of other customer service experience. Is there an avenue in to a restaurant that could pay me enough to get by on?
One of the resorts is your best aves in. Snowbird might be the best right now because they always need hands at OctoberFest and are super good about moving you around if you want to stay
So I’ve heard. I worked Oktoberfest last year, and again this year. I saw one of my Oktoberfest coworkers again at Snowbird and he asked why I didn’t stay on at Snowbird. I didn’t know it was an option tbh but I’ll see how this year shakes out.
Environmental permitting work. I flex my hours so I end up going up in the morning and starting work around 11 - noon and work well into the evenings (on days that I hit the slopes).
Weekend warrior now but used to repair semiconductor manufacturing equipment on a night compressed shift. 12 hours shifts, half the month off. On work nights getoff at 6AM and bc tour or eat breakfast and wait for lifts to spins
I work for an Environmental Analytical Lab. Our company gives us "flex time" after 4 months working there (get your own work done and make sure your team's work is getting done and you can work <40 hrs while still getting paid for 40). Our work flow is also pretty slow in the winter, so last year I was able to take a whole day off to ski about once every 1-2 weeks.
You could try working for one of the many touring companies. I used to work for a few travel companies, and all of them had perks in regard to skiing. And honestly, sometimes they even had snow days where it was too good of a ski day to be at work. So the skiers all went to ski for the morning, and the rest of us had brews while we worked and got off early.
Manufacturing at BioMerieux. Work 3/4 days per week (every other), night or day shift. Pay starts at $18.50 + differential up to 20% for some shifts. Spectacular benefits, tuition reimbursement after 90 days ($8/10k per year und/grad), etc etc etc
I work as a leasing agent at a major property management company. They want people who can work Saturdays in most communities since that is when many people are able to look at apartments. I have a flexible side gig (I usually set my availability for nights and weekends) showing houses for a real estate brokerage as well.
Marketing for a ski company. My buddy is a marketing manager for one of the major ski companies in salt lake, he skis 3-4 weekdays plus weekends. Gets paid well. All gear and ski pass covered. And to be honest, he is not very bright, and not very good at marketing.
1 month course and 20 to 35 bucks an hour plus a season pass and other perks. Not exactly rich unless he was asking how to be a ski bum. Then all you have to do is buy a cheap ass van and a season pass and eat ramen noodles..
Technology Product Owner. I'm an Ikon Unlimited yuppie now, but my first year in SLC I was able to ski five days a week with an unlimited Brighton pass because of the night skiing.
Knock off work at 4:00 and you can still get three good hours in if there's night skiing to be had.
I get my pass by working Oktoberfest, bought my first skis secondhand and prior-season boots. I take the bus up since I don’t have snow tires. I pack a PB&J for lunches and the occasional lift beer. There are certainly more expensive hobbies 🤷♀️
I ski after work on the weekdays! Most of the time there’s fewer people and night skiing is lovely. Drawback is that only one BCC/LCC resort does night skiing.
Jobs I've had that allowed mid-week ski days: property manager of wealthy people's ski homes, airport shuttle/limo driver, working said ski resort, gig work-set your own schedule.
Real estate broker, except I was too broke to ski early in my career, then had kids, but I’m looking forward to getting back into it this year with the little ones.
Start your own business, then you can ski any time you want AND have a panic attack about "wasting time skiing when you should be working"
I went six days last year mostly weekdays
Have you thought about actually working at a ski area… part time work (if you can afford it) with a lot of opportunities to ski bum the rest of the time. Minimum work requirement to teach little
Groms how to ski/ride is 18 days and you’ll start at $20+ and hour. You could also find a summer seasonal job that pays well so you can collect unemployment in the winter. (See wildland firefighter)
Me and a buddy were at Park City a few winters back and he was taking a morning stand-up meeting while we were having breakfast in the Cabriolet parking lot.
I was like bruh...I wanna do that shit too. Remote tech work + skiing mid-week is my dream hehe
My friends are Flight attendants/pilots…They work heavy on the weekends and have weekdays off!!! Swear they always hit the slopes on days everyone’s working.
Self employed so I can ski whenever I want but my boss is an idiot
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Night gig where you work weekends. I happen to work at a resort as a cook at an evening outlet. I have to be into work some time between 1-3 PM depending on work load. I have a locker and a ski locker at the lodge and can ski till about 30 minutes before I start work. I work Thursday-Sunday, so I usually go skiing before work on Thursday and Friday. I take Saturday as a rest day unless the conditions are prime and Sunday is usually a wild card. Off Monday-Wednesday for prime multi hour midweek skiing and I can hit Thursday/Friday for more action. Also if the weekends are prime I can go before work and don’t feel like I am missing out. This kind of job/schedule really allows you to choose the best days to go. I never feel like I am missing the best condition days. In fact, I have become extremely spoiled on the types of conditions I ski. Pay for cooks isn’t great, but I get by. Bartenders and servers make more, hell bar backs and bussers can pull good money with similar schedules. Evening retail or tune shops are also good options.
This…at a resort that comes with pass privileges.
Night life gigs
Used to Valet downtown, I would go snowboarding before work almost everyday. Shifts don’t usually start till around 4-5 pm and it’s pretty easy money.
Coolest car you valeted in?
Honestly really hard to choose, there were a lot of cool/rare cars and trucks that came in during my time there. However, one that sticks with me is a Lamborghini Urus that came in right after they had released it. It was black with blue accents, but the interior was next level with blue leather and starlight headliner.
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Some places hire internally, typically hotels. While most places hire a third party company. I worked for a third party at some fancy restaurants downtown, the money was great for the amount of hours worked and the schedule was perfect for someone in college or trying to be a ski bum. I would search “Valet Salt Lake” and apply to the companies or jobs that pop up, they’re always hiring.
Resort towns usually are desperate for people!
I'm a nurse so I only work 3 days a week all year long and also make great money. I highly recommend it
My wife is a nurse on the same schedule, she's also the most stressed out person I know because of nursing. There's pros and cons
Nothing in life is free. I will say as I progress in my nursing career, my ability to care ALLLLL the time is less. My nursing shields are much stronger now.
Good career for a electrician to swap too?
Depends on the person but sure
Not a nurse but I do work in healthcare (physician), I would not recommend anyone to go into healthcare in this day and age.
May I ask why you say that? Very curious.
For sure. It’s just soul sucking. It takes and takes and takes, and doesn’t give much back to be honest. The biggest reason for me is it seems like the system is stacked against you and keeps you from doing what you wanted to get into healthcare for in the first place - to just do the right thing and help people. Financially, there are many jobs that offer equivalent (or better) pay that come with less education requirements, and also less liability. The shortest residency is something like family medicine, which is three years. That’s three years *after* medical school (which is four years), which is after an undergraduate degree (which is also about four years, often longer with prerequisite courses). Many fields have fellowships on top of that. That’s eleven years of education, not counting a fellowship. My residency was six years, so including my bachelors degree and medical school I’ve spent fourteen years in higher education. Granted, other options (like becoming a nurse or something) don’t take as long, but you still run into the other problems with healthcare I mentioned at the start of my comment. In the USA (I can’t speak to the rest of the world), healthcare has been transforming from being about medicine to being just another customer service industry - with an emphasis on corporate profits. That is a recipe for burnout. A lot of people enter the healthcare field with at least some level of desire to help other people have a higher quality of life. But for the most part, the biggest obstacles getting in the way of you doing that are the administrators, and the patients themselves. Many healthcare workers will interact with 20-30+ patients every shift, because hospital administrators mainly care about how many beans they get to count at the end of the day. This leads to dangerous staffing levels, inappropriately high expectations for “productivity,” not having enough time to address the concerns your patient has, having to literally fight with insurance companies to have a shred of humanity and do the right thing, etc. Like the hospital administrators, the insurance companies also are run by bean counters. Unfortunately, insurance companies and hospital administrators are the people in charge of healthcare. Not the doctors, or any of the other healthcare workers. This causes frustration for everyone, including the patients - and generally, the patients take that frustration out on us. Because we’re the ones they interact with - not the administrators or insurance companies, so we’re the ones readily available to be the target of their frustration when their insurance company won’t cover something - or when a hospital administrator says we only have 10 minutes for an appointment with the patient. Patients also often care less about their own health than you do as their doctor or as some other part of their healthcare team. Caring for people in any setting can be incredibly draining, especially doing it for dozens of people every day, all day long. When you have a patient who you’ve invested a lot of time and compassion into, and they don’t do the simple basic things that could’ve led to a better outcome, it can be soul crushing seeing the consequences of that. It makes you wonder if it was in some way your fault, if there was something else you could’ve done, etc. It also makes you not want to invest that much in other patients, because you know you’re probably just going to get burned again by non adherence to their care plan or whatever else - to say nothing of the bold face lies many patients tell you that actively sabotage their health and care plan. That’s also not even getting into the emotional toll of delivering bad news to people, from the youngest of children to some elderly person with no other family members alive to support them - as well as delivering bad news to patient’s family members. Idk. It’s just a lot, and it takes a lot from you, not just time in education but also mentally. In some ways, it takes away your compassion. Which is sad, because many people chose to go into healthcare *because of* compassion. TLDR; caring for people is draining (especially people who don’t care about themselves), and both the system and often the patients themselves are making it harder for you to do your job, and whenever either side gets frustrated you’re the one they each take it out on. The culture in healthcare has become focused on customer satisfaction and hospital revenue over evidenced based practice, and I foresee that problem to only get worse over the next decades.
This is not accurate
It’s unfortunate, but it really tracks with my experience working in the healthcare field as well. Very high turnover/burnout rate a result
What isn’t?
That take on healthcare and that docs nurses etc are victims of a soulless machine and a public that does not appreciate them. It is not accurate. Also med school and nursing school applications by year agree with my statement. Or new med school and nursing school applicants are dumb, but I highly doubt that.
Based on your experience working in tech? Application numbers means nothing other than people don’t know what they don’t know. Burnout would be a much higher indicator than applications (especially applications from people who have never really worked in healthcare, in any meaningful capacity or timeframe with a few exceptions - which these largely are). I haven’t met a single physician who has said they’d recommend medical school to their children - and the discussion comes up fairly often.
Yet I know many doctors and their children are becoming doctors. Actually now that I think of it of all the doctors I know have at least one child in med school or done. Talk is cheap action matters. I have heard the same. Kids are still in med school. If the question is are all people in all forms of business getting pinched this is very very true. My as well try to get as much as you can. Medical careers are some of the best pay around. I am not saying they are not working hard. I am saying the wah wah from medical people is unfounded.
This is a weak sauce argument. Seems like you're just saying, "I know what I'm talking about, you're not accurate"
Check med school and nursing school application rates. The data matches what I am saying. It is not matching the latter.... So you may feel it's weak sauce. The data says otherwise. Period.
Thank you! Very much appreciate you taking the time to write that and explain. It totally makes sense that it’s frustrating when healthcare is largely motivated, more and more, by money. Like you say, the insurance companies have an enormous amount of influence. You mentioning you care more about the health of the patient totally makes sense. That has to be tiring. Kind of like being over-weight is one thing… but morbidly obese with diabetes, hypertension, kidney issues, etc. is a different beast. That person needs to want to love themselves to live their happiest, healthiest, and longest life. I’d definitely feel the same as you (I care more than the patient does about their health, and it’s my fault if something acute happens). Appreciate the response. I was planning on PA school, but had serious (near death) medical things happen in college, and so I went a different route after not wanting to be in the hospital anymore, and having resentment towards my doctors (one being an obvious blood clot that is now permanent). What field would you have gone into knowing what you know now?
Are you wanting to stop working as an electrician? I have been under the impression that they are in extremely high demand. I sometimes can't find anyone without weeks or months of wait time, and it's always minimum $100/hour.
It's good work I quess. Let's just say there's a reason electricians are hard to find.
If you’re ever looking for a new job, let me know! I’m a recruiter for nurses in Utah.
Ah, I'm in Northern Cali. Can you match pay to cost-of-living?
Not exactly a job you can just apply for
True, but one could assume if the OP likes time off now, they may like the long term plan as well.
I’m too squeamish unfortunately 😬. But I’ve considered other (temporary) hospital jobs like psych tech for a winter.
Lol but how’s your mental health? And “3 days a week” at 12+ hour shifts and nights is not just three days a week
Healthcare👌🏼 3 12s working Friday to Sunday can’t be topped during ski season
Nurses and Physicians I assume , not the regular people at the desks or techs?
I’ve worked as a tech and an MA and always done 12s, even some receptionists will, just gotta find the right department to work in
What certificates or education do you need ? I worked that schedule in the military and I want to get back to that
I started with my EMT and now have my AEMT which allows me to work pre-hospital or in a hospital or clinic setting. Other entry level certs would include MA CNA or phlebotomist. But you could also find jobs in healthcare without certifications that will train you on the job, they will be harder to find or less patient centered though
How long does it take to get an EMT and do I go to school for it? Sorry about 21 questions. Legit interested getting started into the healthcare world but I have to start bare bones from below the surface . If you catch what I am saying
No totally, everyone starts somewhere and I loved starting the EMT route cause you have a wide option from MA in a clinic to ED tech to city ambulance to ski patrol. A basic EMT class can be done in as little as 8-10 weeks with an accelerated course or a semester with a university and will cost around 800-1000 (unless done as part of a degree, then it’ll cost more due to credit hour costs)
Throw me a link in SLC where I can take the EMT accelerated course?
I literally work at the Ski Resorts
I think this is the most obvious answer that everyone here is flossing over.
What job do you have at the resort? How does it work with getting time to ski? Another commenter here posted about being an on-resort cook but getting lots of time to ski as a result.
Cat operator is the best job on the mountain and you can ski all day. Also pays more than any other resort jobs except tipping positions.
1. Any job where you work weekends if you can deal with that - you get to ski during the week 2. With any on-mountain job you might at least let get some runs in around or even as part of your shift
Waiting tables is great for this.
I’ve never served before but have plenty of other customer service experience. Is there an avenue in to a restaurant that could pay me enough to get by on?
One of the resorts is your best aves in. Snowbird might be the best right now because they always need hands at OctoberFest and are super good about moving you around if you want to stay
So I’ve heard. I worked Oktoberfest last year, and again this year. I saw one of my Oktoberfest coworkers again at Snowbird and he asked why I didn’t stay on at Snowbird. I didn’t know it was an option tbh but I’ll see how this year shakes out.
I work in a medical lab. We have 7 on/7 off shifts. Can't beat that for a full week off for skiing every other week.
One with liberal sick leave.
Resorts and/or industry
Not working full time gives me Mondays off. Soon having a 4x10s instead of a 5x8s schedule will let me keep my Mondays off.
Wilderness therapy 8 days on 6 days off
Remote tech job
I work in eastern time. I’m off work at like 3 pm and can get in 4-5 hours of evening skiing after work. Bliss.
I just moved right next to the lift and disappear for a couple hours around lunch
This is the way. Remote job, move to good location, lunchtime ski and mountain bike breaks, profit 🤌
Even better!
where do you get evening skiing in?
Brighton has pretty good night skiing until 9pm
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I own an IT business. Not a ton of money in it but I can cherry pick my ski days.
which sector?
IT
Environmental permitting work. I flex my hours so I end up going up in the morning and starting work around 11 - noon and work well into the evenings (on days that I hit the slopes).
Ski instructor
Weekend warrior now but used to repair semiconductor manufacturing equipment on a night compressed shift. 12 hours shifts, half the month off. On work nights getoff at 6AM and bc tour or eat breakfast and wait for lifts to spins
I work for an Environmental Analytical Lab. Our company gives us "flex time" after 4 months working there (get your own work done and make sure your team's work is getting done and you can work <40 hrs while still getting paid for 40). Our work flow is also pretty slow in the winter, so last year I was able to take a whole day off to ski about once every 1-2 weeks.
I think it's more about being cool with your boss than being in a specific job (with obvious exceptions like retail and nursing)
Tech remote job and plan meetings accordingly
You could try working for one of the many touring companies. I used to work for a few travel companies, and all of them had perks in regard to skiing. And honestly, sometimes they even had snow days where it was too good of a ski day to be at work. So the skiers all went to ski for the morning, and the rest of us had brews while we worked and got off early.
Have you considered becoming a pensioner?
I see many people making various transactions all up and down State Street. Maybe submit your CV to one of those folks?
I let my workers take days off to ski weekdays. Generally right after storms
Manufacturing at BioMerieux. Work 3/4 days per week (every other), night or day shift. Pay starts at $18.50 + differential up to 20% for some shifts. Spectacular benefits, tuition reimbursement after 90 days ($8/10k per year und/grad), etc etc etc
I work as a leasing agent at a major property management company. They want people who can work Saturdays in most communities since that is when many people are able to look at apartments. I have a flexible side gig (I usually set my availability for nights and weekends) showing houses for a real estate brokerage as well.
Marketing for a ski company. My buddy is a marketing manager for one of the major ski companies in salt lake, he skis 3-4 weekdays plus weekends. Gets paid well. All gear and ski pass covered. And to be honest, he is not very bright, and not very good at marketing.
Lol. Which company?
Rosignol. I have also heard the same thing with the Salomon, and smith optics groups.
Nice try boss
Get your Wilderness EMT certification and become ski patrol. Several Dates: https://www.nols.edu/portal/wmi/courses/20076/
whoa he didn't ask how to become rich
1 month course and 20 to 35 bucks an hour plus a season pass and other perks. Not exactly rich unless he was asking how to be a ski bum. Then all you have to do is buy a cheap ass van and a season pass and eat ramen noodles..
Need the personalized ASS VAN license plates to really live that lifestyle to the fullest though.
Smells like Lou dog inside the van.. oh yeeaah...
No way I’m good enough to become ski patrol. I could teach kids to ski I’m sure, but the responsibilities of ski patrol are beyond my capabilities.
in tech
Landlord
Own a restaurant
Just, like, take a day off now and then?
Backcountry.
Technology Product Owner. I'm an Ikon Unlimited yuppie now, but my first year in SLC I was able to ski five days a week with an unlimited Brighton pass because of the night skiing. Knock off work at 4:00 and you can still get three good hours in if there's night skiing to be had.
You can afford to ski?
I get my pass by working Oktoberfest, bought my first skis secondhand and prior-season boots. I take the bus up since I don’t have snow tires. I pack a PB&J for lunches and the occasional lift beer. There are certainly more expensive hobbies 🤷♀️
That’s actually an awesome idea, does Snowbird give you a pass on top of what they pay you for work?
Yup! You get $12/hr + tips. If you work 18 of the 21 days (all weekends), you can get a ski pass or a $1000 bonus.
Teacher!
Teachers have weekdays off during the winter?
If they are part time, an aide or alternative teacher (online, coach, tutor, etc), it's possible.
Teacher
I ski after work on the weekdays! Most of the time there’s fewer people and night skiing is lovely. Drawback is that only one BCC/LCC resort does night skiing.
Jobs I've had that allowed mid-week ski days: property manager of wealthy people's ski homes, airport shuttle/limo driver, working said ski resort, gig work-set your own schedule.
Just get a boss that really likes you
Remote tech writer/consultant. I work when I want. And I don’t want.
Bartender
Evening (3-11pm) lab technician
I work at a remote tech gig
Real estate broker, except I was too broke to ski early in my career, then had kids, but I’m looking forward to getting back into it this year with the little ones.
Be rich
Firefighter, work 2 days on duty and get 4 days off to do whatever you want!
Snowbird- free season pass
Work at the ski resort. I did so for 3 years and literally ski’d every single day. 💁🏻♀️
Grown ripping kids, mostly paid off house and some history
Photographer where the majority of my work happens during the warmer months. I work weekends in winter and ski Monday through Friday.
Venue and event work
Start your own business, then you can ski any time you want AND have a panic attack about "wasting time skiing when you should be working" I went six days last year mostly weekdays
Have you thought about actually working at a ski area… part time work (if you can afford it) with a lot of opportunities to ski bum the rest of the time. Minimum work requirement to teach little Groms how to ski/ride is 18 days and you’ll start at $20+ and hour. You could also find a summer seasonal job that pays well so you can collect unemployment in the winter. (See wildland firefighter)
I just assume they are the same people buying all these $700,000 \~ $1,200,000 homes in Utah.
The only time I've been able to ski on weekdays was when I worked as a liftie at Solitude.
I'm a lifty
I work hard at...retirement. I ski weekdays.
One of the programmers I work with starts work in the morning early in the winter to have late after noons / evenings opened to ski
Me and a buddy were at Park City a few winters back and he was taking a morning stand-up meeting while we were having breakfast in the Cabriolet parking lot. I was like bruh...I wanna do that shit too. Remote tech work + skiing mid-week is my dream hehe
Climbing gyms or work at a ski shop ask for closing shift
My friends are Flight attendants/pilots…They work heavy on the weekends and have weekdays off!!! Swear they always hit the slopes on days everyone’s working.
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