Jobs in the industry

yeah, thats another thing. i love to ski, but would i love making skiing my work? i could take away from the play aspect. but i have like looked into diff jobs and they're so much out there for the ski industry, that half of it is just like office work and would barely have nothing to do with actual skiing. i really love the sport and want to make it something i deal with everyday for the rest of my life. when i get old and can't ski (hopefully never happens ahaha) i want to still be working with the thing i love. extremely cheesy statement, but the truth. =]
 
There are so many different jobs you could get at a ski resort. you could do marketing or management. or accounting. or do an events management or hospitality. if you do those and you cannot find a job at a ski resort right away you could always work somewhere else...and you could even use them to land a job at oakley or salomon or another company in the ski industry. they need accountants and marketing and managers! or you could go for fashion design and try and get in and design ski clothes for a company! that would be cool!

i wish i had known about ski resort managment majors before i went to school! that would be sweet. but if your paretns have any say in anything, one of the other majors that you could use in other areas and not be stuck in the ski industry might seem more appealing to them, and if they are paying, you have to keep them happy to a point!

good luck! and just so you know, most people do not work in the area they got thier degrees in! go figure!
 
Lyndon State has a 4 year Ski resort management degree. Its a pretty good prgram, you end up leavign with a B.S. in Recreation and Ski Resort Management when you leave. I go there now and its a pretty sweet program.
 
Dentists ski? bwwaah

There is a forum full of bitter dentist that don't ski enough

A degree is a peice of paper

Marketable skills trump

Maybe not finacially but $$$ isn't always the key to happiness

Lead your own life not the life your parental units desire

In the long run hey will still love and repect you..

IMHO Bartending, food service is one of the best skills you can have under your belt

That or pole skills (wink)

 
SkiWee, im a junior at Johnson & Wales Uni - Campus in RI, i know out east but they have a resort management / hospitality management degree that I am in the middle of now... check it out theres a campus in denver 4 years bachelor degree. Learnin lots of cool shit about the industry + tons of time to ski. Already talked to co-op edu companies about salary jobs after graduation, sun valley ID, Vail, Whistler and Hood. Not alot of people specialize in outdoor adventure and snow resorts, most go for warm beach styles so leaves a lot of good career options for us. Check it out, let me know what you think
 
You can meet a ton of people who work in the management/business side of skiing just by being friendly on the lifts.

I met this one guy who managed the food operations for vail. He was super busy ordering everything and getting everything set up in the summer but when winter came everything just fell into place and he had a ton of time to ski. And best of all was he made a ton of money compared to being a lifty or something.

Just do well in school and go to a good college and get a good education that will allow you to do anything in life. If you just bum around your going to see a lot of doors closed.

If not, and you are hot, I plan on being rich and living in a ski town when I'm older, you can shoot me a pm and we can keep in touch and you can live with me

 
Exactly, thats the way im thinking. I want to major in business, finance or marketing, and find out what happens. if i can get into the industry with a company, thats fine, if not thats fine too
 
I met this guy on the top of a 11,000' Wasatch peak. He pounds nails all summer and in the winter he skis a different peak/place every day. Dude racks a ton of vert. Then he posts his observations on his website. He is a hippie looking freak. I'm sure some doors are closed to him, but He's a wizzard and he can open other doors. Like the doors to the white room. The white room is a powerful place, kind of place that can kind of change your life. Your plan sounds good the board room, rich ,a hot wife

Stay away from the white room

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Did that Vail F&B manager tell ya about the 22" rainbow he got out of Gore Creek by chance?

 
I think nearly everyone on this site wants a job somehow related to skiing, just lots aren't serious about it yet.
I'm at the stage where I have to apply to all sorts of universities and colleges and make some big decisions, so this thread is great! I was thinking about this course, a degree in Marketing and Design. It sounds dope, but kinda limiting in that none of the courses are transferrable.
So now I'm thinking a degree in Geography, it's super broad, and it can lead to environmental design and some other things along those lines. Does this sound like it could end up getting me anywhere close to the ski industry?
Here's another thing: I don't want to just end up in the industry to end up in the industry. I want to do what I want to do, and if it applies to the ski industry somehow, even better. I think this is how you should pick your courses. Look at descriptions, and see what appeals to you, then look at where it could take you in relation to skiing.
This thread came around at the perfect time! Thanks for making it.
 
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