I’m trying to get a ski resort job in Aspen for the 2010-2011 ski season. How hard is it to land a job?

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1. Alasdair M says:

   January 29, 2010 at 7:53 pm

   ski resorts rely on a huge number of seasonal workers. getting a seasonal job (such as a cashiering position or as a liftie, etc.) should be straightforward. if you go to a job fair, give a good account of yourself, do not have a felony in your history and are not a complete moron, you should have no trouble getting a job.

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2. mm12992000 says:

   January 29, 2010 at 9:20 pm

   I worked a few jobs in Aspen. Played guitar and set up lunch (for $3/hour but got a ski pass) on the mountain, and bus-boyed at night to make $$. Both jobs were easy enough to get, I just walked around for a few days and put in applications, got a few hours and picked the best ones. You just need enough to survive out there, and everyone is really cool and generous. This was right after xmas. Just get out there and you’ll find something, it’s awesome.

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3. DaveInSeoul says:

   January 30, 2010 at 10:39 am

   I spent two years out in Colorado ski-bumming. If you are ‘on-site’ jobs, the are usually fairly easy to get, but don’t try and apply from out-of-town and don’t expect to get paid well. All the jobs I worked (I worked in Summit County, not Aspen, but it is the same pretty much all over the ski-towns) were minimum wage or slightly over, and were the direct result of me being on the spot when someone decided to ‘take the job and shove it’.

   Good luck in finding a job that pays more than the minimum wage, and be prepared to live with a roommate or two (almost everybody does it). Also, don’t plan to be there the entire year. That was the mistake I made, and while I did it for one year, I didn’t last the second. While there are more summer jobs in Aspen than in the past, trying to stay employed in the fall and spring is really, really, hard.

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