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What are your favorite jobs or your worst job. Maybe you have a dream Job that you really want to have. I Found out I got my dream job today. Right now I am a Ski instructor at my local mountain. :)
The pros of being an instructor is...
getting free ski waxing
Ski pass
9% off on food
additional 10% off on the gift shop so that like 20%
Skiing
I hated washing dishes, I'll say that much.
Right now I work in a ski shop. It's pretty cool- I get cheap passes to the resort, a free discount card that includes skiing, and discounted gear. It can be kinda annoying though, the people who come in can be so obnoxious, and sometimes there's stupid drama.
Worst Job: Food. Specifically a Pizza place.
Best Job would have to be my current job as a Marketing Director.
Perks:
-Free skiing at 5 mountains(hills though lol)
-Free trips to Vermont, Whistler, and Europe
-Proforms for everything
-Free passes to events such as iF3, trade shows, etc.
-Never pay for beer
-The job description is basically to spread stoke on skiing. And to go skiing as much as possible
Cons:
-It's stressful as fuck at times.
-Corporate dinners...ugh
-Corporate is very difficult to work with.
-Shop owners are very difficult to work with.
-NO ONE CALLS YOU BACK, EVER. UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE.
-Firing people
-Interviewing people
Working as an Usher is the best job I ever held, too bad the pay is crap. You spend about 30 minutes helping people find their seats then you spend the duration of the play or concert getting paid to read in the hallway and occasionally show a wayward soul where the bathroom is.
Great college job though, I never missed a reading assignment.
worst job i ever had was retail. getting paid nothing to work too hard and never be appreciated. minus the time i won an incentive trip to california all included. those days have come and gone.
my current job is decent, but i miss being a seamstress. ultimate dream job is tattoo artist, and owning my own clothing company. oh the elbow grease.
i kind of vote for the never working too. hahah
Right now I nanny for a family that has all three kids going to school from 9-3 every day. Pretty much all I do is ski in the morning then go hang out with some chill ass kids untill they fall alseep or their mom gets home. I'd really like to get a job in a ski shop or something like that when I'm done racing.
I'm a lift mechanic and I absolutely love it.
Pros: winter is our chill time of year where most days we get paid to shred
No off season which is rare in the ski industry
All other departments are scared of us
Get to work on giant badass machines
Driving remote work roads in the summer and seeing incredible flora and fauna
Can fix anything on my car in the shop
Snowmobiling
Cons: lifts do break down and then it's panic time
Climbing on super sketchy shit in blizzards
Working outside during all manner of bad weather scenarios
Super early mornings
Grease on everything
Right now, I'm working as a ski instructor for my home hill which is super sweet!
Love being able to ski to work, work to ski and spend time with great clients and improving my own skiing! I went through the Ski Resort Management program which helped a ton!
Also spend my fall in a ski shop sellin' ski stuff which is cool! Too bad our winter hasn't started off too well, but I get to talk to people about snow every single day which is pretty sweet.
Also just started working with a Ski/SNB tour operator working to sell snow trips from Alberta/Sask/Prairies to the mountains! Big learning experience but it's a cool job.
If anyone's interested, let me know, PM me!
MinggWorst Job: Food. Specifically a Pizza place.Best Job would have to be my current job as a Marketing Director.
Perks:
-Free skiing at 5 mountains(hills though lol)
-Free trips to Vermont, Whistler, and Europe
-Proforms for everything
-Free passes to events such as iF3, trade shows, etc.
-Never pay for beer
-The job description is basically to spread stoke on skiing. And to go skiing as much as possible
Cons:
-It's stressful as fuck at times.
-Corporate dinners...ugh
-Corporate is very difficult to work with.
-Shop owners are very difficult to work with.
-NO ONE CALLS YOU BACK, EVER. UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE.
-Firing people
-Interviewing people
do you have a marketing degree? did you have any prior experience going into your position ?
Fluffysnowkittydo you have a marketing degree? did you have any prior experience going into your position ?
Nope, not at all. I'm in my second year of marketing/finance right now. I applied to be the Social director(event planning & communication person) but they thought I would do well in marketing instead haha.
Current: Marketing Manager of one of Australia's largest Ski/ Snowboard Shops.
Pros:
Great Experience.
Cool customers
Great discounts
Get to work in a great industry
Cons:
Don't get to work on the floor very much
My office is still 'being built'
Stressful as fuck
Hard to balance with Uni & Social Life
Best: Motivational Speaking at Disadvantaged Schools
Worst: Staff Trainer for a Snowsports Industry Brand
Ski instructed, but I'm not able to ski this season because my ACL is a lil bitch, so I'm working in a ski shop instead, which I'm super stoked about.
SKI SHOP-
Pros:
Making connections and learning from various reps
Better understanding of the product field
Discounts
Free pass
Folding stuff
Cons:
Retail customers
Folding stuff
INSTRUCTING-
Pros:
TIPS ON TIPS ON TIPS
Requested privates
You learn by teaching
Free pass
New friends
Kids can be hilarious
Ski Bus kids sneak you hot chocolate
Cons:
the tears and snot
groms that hit jumps without permission
rubber knees
energy draining
being asked why chair 69 is so important
All my jobs haven't been too terrible actually. TGR, NS, Bootfitter, Barista, Nanny, Landscape.
I've been working at Corbets Cabin (restaurant at top of Jackson Hole's Tram) this past summer and now again that winter's here. I get to make and eat waffles, chill at the top of a mountain, and ski everyday. This and writing for NS are pretty damn rad.