If you were to start a ski business....

[deadheadskier]

Ski all day and sit in the bar in the evenings, lean over to the guy on vacation next to ya and say "want to meet a pretty girl?"
I would need new clothes.
I think GSS would excel at this.

challenge would be importing pretty girls. not many of them in ski towns, especially single ones

 

[jarrodski]

when i get 350 million saved up, i'm going to get one of these... run a cruise line up and down the east coast where customers act like pirates for a week at a time. eating whole chickens, drinking out of gallon jugs and shooting pies at other boats... that'll run from april to september... giving me all winter to myself while the crew does yearly maintainence on the ship.

i'll attest to working in the ski industry doesn't neccessarily mean skiing every day....

 

[RootDKJ]

when i get 350 million saved up, i'm going to get one of these... run a cruise line up and down the east coast where customers act like pirates for a week at a time. eating whole chickens, drinking out of gallon jugs and shooting pies at other boats... that'll run from april to september... giving me all winter to myself while the crew does yearly maintainence on the ship.

i'll attest to working in the ski industry doesn't neccessarily mean skiing every day....

That sounds like a great plan. Can I be on the crew?

 

[jarrodski]

That sounds like a great plan. Can I be on the crew?

summer or full time? can i use your skis?

 

[SkiDork]

arrrg!

 

[eastcoastpowderhound]

I thought about being a pimp. That's what many ski areas need. The laws are probably pretty lax for the first couple violations. Maybe a couple of RVs in the parking lot and move from ski town to ski town. Of course there is a stigma to being a pimp but maybe the money would ease that.
Ski all day and sit in the bar in the evenings, lean over to the guy on vacation next to ya and say "want to meet a pretty girl?"
I would need new clothes.
I think GSS would excel at this.

now that's a service the industry needs! Screw the stigma, think of all the silly ski outfits you could wear...mad steezy sleazy.

 

[bvibert]

when i get 350 million saved up, i'm going to get one of these... run a cruise line up and down the east coast where customers act like pirates for a week at a time. eating whole chickens, drinking out of gallon jugs and shooting pies at other boats... that'll run from april to september... giving me all winter to myself while the crew does yearly maintainence on the ship.

i'll attest to working in the ski industry doesn't neccessarily mean skiing every day....

That sounds like a great plan. Can I be on the crew?

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summer or full time? can i use your skis?

Summer please.

 

[mondeo]

now that's a service the industry needs! Screw the stigma, think of all the silly ski outfits you could wear...mad steezy sleazy.

Might be easily confused with park rats...

 

[jarrodski]

Might be easily confused with park rats...

you mean easily blend in with park rats when runnin from the man!

 

[Johnskiismore]

this.


Working in the restaurant business in a ski town is the LAST thing I would ever consider for a ski business. Please don't take offense to me asking, but how old are you? The reason I ask is below:

I initially went to college to be a writer, but left after a year because it wasn't what I wanted to do and I needed to 'find' myself. A friend got me a job waiting tables despite having zero experience at a restaurant on Cape Cod. I spent two years working in restaurants with my summers on Cape Cod, my winters in Stowe making what I thought was pretty decent money except for the brutally long off seasons when many restaurants close, but the mountain is closed as well, ocean is too cold to swim in, so limited options for something to do.

Never the less, I was determined to get a degree and work my way up the restaurant/hotel food chain, which I did at UVM. I spent four years after school working at resorts and basically only skiing 10 days a season as once you get to high management level, you work 12 hours a day 6 days a week.

Meanwhile back at the farm in Stowe (which pretty much has the most steady year round business of any ski town in New England) old friends who owned restaurants were consistently thriving and then failing. Working everyday from 10 in the morning until midnight, (is that what you call tits for hours?) barely scraping by paying the bills, struggling to find a single seasonal employee who wouldn't steal from them and even gave a crap about work as most are only in town to ski and party. I arrived in Stowe in 1995. Again, busiest year round ski town in New England. Out of 75 odd restaurant / bar venues in town, I can count on one hand the number of owners that remain today 14 years later. There are many space that I've seen turn over a dozen times.

I used to have your dream........gave it up about five years ago because I wanted to have a life. Want to own a restaurant? Do it in a city. If you do it right there, you'll have plenty of time and money to go to ski country and focus on what you love there........skiing.

If you must live year round in a ski town, become a doctor, lawyer, dentist, accountant.

Almost everyone I know who works in restaurant/hotel services and lives a comfortable life in a ski town are able to do so because of two reasons...........trust fund or supplementing their income growing weed.

good news is, because of my time spent chasing that silly dream, I've got crash space whenever I want it up in the mountains

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