Carver Occupations

[Steve Prokopiw]

I'm with Rob on the misconception of trying to eek out a living in snowboarding.I love what I do and have added a fair number of hardbooters to my buddy/client list this season,nine brand new hardbooters,to be exact,(and numerous new carving buds,long live OES and INWES !)BUT powder days on the bunny hill are hard work no matter how cool the clients;and if I don't go to heaven,eternity will be spent with beginners on an icy catwalk with no end...

Same goes for the rest of the things I do for money in order to avoid a real job.So I put myself in the blue collar/service category since I do other stuff like bike ride/race with coaching clients in the rain or lay sod when the work is available or run spin classes at 5:50 am with a hangover:)

Today,though,I am a stay at home dad and just put the kids down for a nap after snowshoeing on the bike path.In general,I love my life,and someday when I dig out from under my mountain of debt,I'll love it even more.

[C5 Golfer]

Used to be a Mech Engineer/Machine Designer but now just a 12 month/yr Golf Bum and 5 month/yr Snowboarding Bum. :biggthump:biggthump

[boarderboy]

90% current time spent trying to keep son in Middle School.

long-term, hope to get him through high school and into some kind of post-secondary education overseas, if he's so inclined.

then I want to re-retire to a cold clime with little traffic, lots of snow, some vertical, at least a few lifts and some decent groom.

I then want to board til the end of time or until I die - whichever comes first

(unfortunately not original - "cribbed" from Robert August, Endless Summer II) his Valhalla is Costa Rica...

[LeeW]

hmm, wish you had "ski area occupation" type of job. :)

[big mario]

http://www.bomberonline.com/VBulletin/member.php?u=1551

powerball winner would be nice!

mario

[AK in PA]

Geologist, working in stormwater management for a local engineering company. Formerly worked in the environmental field, and as a lab manager and petrographer. 75 days almost describes the full extent of Pennsylvania's snowboard season the last few years. Used to ride that many days in college. Then came marriage, a house, kids....

[tex1230]

http://www.bomberonline.com/VBulletin/member.php?u=1551

I tried to read your occupation but got stuck reading your quiver over and over and over...vampire...vampire...vampire....

[Dave Pushee]

I assumed that "retired" fits in the unemployed category so...

Previously business management.

[Erik J]

I voted service industry

I'm a chef - wouldn't trade it for anything - even snowboarding.

[Rik Fromdahl]

i wrap toilet paper... I know it's a "$hitty" job, but people always need our products... truthfully though, the best part is the time off. every 4 days we get 4 days off. the worst part is reading in the paper the other day that our ceo basically won the lottery (for the second year in a row). last yr? 3.5 million. this year? 3.89 million including a $1 million "bone us". all this for an a$$hole that wouldn't give us (the people that make his products) a decent raise last fall. :flamethroit didn't even keep up with cost of living increase . yay corporate greed!

[Galen]

"bone us"...that is priceless!:lol:

[paragonUE]

you left out fishmonger

IM A SKILLED WORKER DAMNIT

(hate my job)

[martyagt4]

On the left, outside rear. Also do consulting for Porsche Motorsports NA. Engine tuning basically.

[Gleb]

damn, you guys have some cool jobs.

I'm a pharmacy student with 3 more years to go. I'd like to think: Future Lottery winner, but thats just my retirement plan.

[BlueB]

IT Applications Support Analyst' date=' but, I want BlueB's and Dave*'s jobs instead.

Huh? Somehow you've got it wrong... We are not snow bums, just ordinary hard working people. Yes, we do ride a lot, especially Dave. Blessed with the mountains on our door step, all it takes is a bit of determination and planning...

I'm an Industrial and Graphic Designer, running my own small multidisciplinary studio. However, for few years already, all of my work hours were sub-contracted to a superyacht building yard.

I'm a part-time instructor too, Sundays only. That hardly qualifies as a job, anyhow.

Boris

[Fleaman]

Powerlineman

[refried]

I've recently had to retire after closing the service station I was running. The place was sold to a real estate developer from Portland a few years ago and the new owner wants to sell because it doesnt make him the money he hoped it would (he only wanted the property, not the station). It's a shame because I was one of three mechanics on the island and the only place you could get air, It's also been a full service station since 1928 and many of the old ladies around here have no idea how to pump their own gas.

So I spent the last weekend putting all the tools from a 4 bay shop into a 1 car garage (they don't fit). Now I get to decide what I want to do next, Open another shop? Fix boats again? or work from home and do lots of riding, kayaking/rafting whenever I want? I'm tired of working 60 hr. weeks so I'm going to try to take some time off before I decide.

[crucible]

Me, I'm a safety and rescue specialist- with the bonus of being able to go to a ski-hill during the winter and actually call it WORK sometimes.

I help the lift and tower technicians with their safety programs and the operations managers with thier OSHA compliance, among other things....

Like Boris said, all of us in the Vancouver Lower Mainland have real day jobs, we're just lucky that some of our ski-hills are within the metro city limits.

It does make for some interesting advance planning sometimes- like today, I will be wearing my business casual clothes over my Patagonia capilene so that once I'm done with my last call at 4 PM, I can bust straight up to Grouse Mountain for another session of night skiing- boards and gear all prepped up and mounted for quick deployment.

[Jack M]

so far, fully one third of us are geeks.

[trailertrash]

so far, fully one third of us are geeks.

you needed this poll to tell you that? :rolleyes:

[rwmaron]

Trained in healthcare (BSN in nursing); last 20 years in IT.

[J'suis là]

Huh? Somehow you've got it wrong... We are not snow bums, just ordinary hard working people. Yes, we do ride a lot, especially Dave. Blessed with the mountains on our door step, all it takes is a bit of determination and planning...

Yeah I guess that suggestion did come across, uhm, oops; I shouldn't compose posts when cramming stuff between batches and reports. I'd just received mixed news from an interview I had in Vancouver. It was a bit disheartening (but had other leads) so when I saw. . .

Another fun day at the "office"...

. . .I got a bit envious of Vancouver's proximity and presence to significantly more interesting mountains. Anyway, I have it even less wrong since lately in the range of duties I do, to design (applications, reports, systems) is more interesting than to support (unsophisticated technology users). Hm...

[paragonUE]

I think i may be the only alpine riding fishmonger, in the world

[ecnalubma]

The best job in the world! Firefighter. (it still feels like bragging every time I say it)

[skatha]

MD, although I'd hardly recommend it as a profession, although things are looking up...I found a job that I sleep all night, work weekends only if I want to (hello, 3 day weekends) and don't have any administrative hassles....

Oh, and I'm going to set up a practice doing only sport medicine in the next 2 years....

My dream job is to set up a clinic in Colorado-half days only, closed for pow.

I saw a doc working in Taos in March-on the slopes, no less....take a few turns during lunch, eat on the lift...I could do that....

As it is, I'm still the unofficial doc for bomber.