Ski Jobs

ise wrote:you might try somewhere bluedome or http://www.outdoorstaff.co.uk/ or http://www.adventuresportsholidays.com/jobs/index.php or http://www.traveljobs365.com/index.php but these are more for qualified people. Otherwise as Bandit suggested there's unskilledtoiletcleaners.co.uk or whatever it's called.

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amanda n wrote:ISE thats not fair, i would happily clean toilets if it meant i could wakeup every morning and see the mountains, and just sit at the top of them once a week feeling glad to be alive.

I wouldn't, there's no need for it. Living in the mountains isn't a break from the real world, it is the real world and I'm not going to live like a student :lol:

It's a real change from living in the city, Ise. Some of us just wanna experience what it's like and have that opportunity :)

ise wrote:

amanda n wrote:ISE thats not fair, i would happily clean toilets if it meant i could wakeup every morning and see the mountains, and just sit at the top of them once a week feeling glad to be alive.

I wouldn't, there's no need for it. Living in the mountains isn't a break from the real world, it is the real world and I'm not going to live like a student :lol:

My life as a student is pretty damn sweet :lol:

i'm afraid that if it meant i had to go work as a cleaner or any unskilled hard working job to live the life i want then i am not proud i would do it.

Amanda,
I have a degree, but yet I do lots of unskilled manual work, as well as management type stuff. I reckon one feels happier, and more balanced as a person, doing a bit of each. Of course, it is a bit different with me, because I'm self-employed, but I still have to do lots of gross stuff when cleaning, worse than toilets, and I spent years shovelling cow muck etc.

I admire your determination. If you're prepared to do anything, I'm sure you'll get a job, and then you can work your way up to doing whatever it is that you decide you like best. And the mountains are SO beautiful, I reckon it will be worth all the hard work, to live there.

I decided to be a farmer because I like living in the country, although I was brought up in the city, and I like working outside and manual work.

Best of luck with getting a job in a ski resort,

Ally

thanks Ally,

I have some contacts and will be making calls next week.

amanda n wrote:i'm afraid that if it meant i had to go work as a cleaner or any unskilled hard working job to live the life i want then i am not proud i would do it.

Seasonal work is just that, seasonal. In most ski stations that means 3 or 4 months at best. Mostly those jobs involve long, antisocial hours for so little money that they're actually below the minimum wage of the county you're in. Someone working in the average seasonaire job will ski fewer days in the season than their counterpart down the valley doing a normal job. Most seasonaires will leave at the end of the first and last season they do in debt. Some people might choose to do that for a few months but nowadays a lot of people now realise it's easier to try and earn enough in the rest of the year and just ski for a couple of months.

If you want to actually make a life here it takes considerably harder work than just being prepared to do unskilled labour for below minimum wage. I'd also avoid taking advice from people who imagine how great it all must based on their holiday no matter how well intentioned it is or those that did that one season and then went to something else. I think there's a handful of people who post here who can give some realistic advice. Determination and a preparedness to do anything won't get you anywhere at all on their own, what you actually need is a realistic plan and to have considered the downsides. Any dream doesn't do, what it needs is a plan :lol: