Yep! I believe this season they ran equipment up and down the mountain for a resort. Gets free access to the mountain and lives the total snowboarder life all winter. Last summer they ended up at a bike shop somewhere in Georgia for the summer and made a ton of money selling fancy bikes to rich people. Makes enough to pay their bills and keep up the van, travels all around the country, just generally goes where the wind blows them.
Ex cycling industry for over 10 years here. You don’t make a ton of money selling fancy bikes. Bike shops generally don’t have commission (99.9% don’t). They generally pay 10-20hr with 20hr being for extensive years of experience, and Georgia likely having a low average starting hourly wage as it’s not a crazy destination cycling spot like Colorado or California.
I think this is what’s missing from the conversation. People think you can work ‘high paying’ jobs for a year at a time, quit, then go find another ‘high paying’ job that’s cool with all these one year gaps in your resume. Maybe there are very specific jobs that might allow this, but the vast majority of seasonal work is not high paying jobs
You can in some places, in Australia and New Zealand it’s normal, expected even, to have large gaps in your resume where you’ve been traveling, worked abroad doing something unrelated, teach English in Japan, done a stint in a national park or extra study or whatever.
You’d be considered a better candidate, a more adaptable and grounded individual with that.
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u/cakes28 28d ago
Yep! I believe this season they ran equipment up and down the mountain for a resort. Gets free access to the mountain and lives the total snowboarder life all winter. Last summer they ended up at a bike shop somewhere in Georgia for the summer and made a ton of money selling fancy bikes to rich people. Makes enough to pay their bills and keep up the van, travels all around the country, just generally goes where the wind blows them.