Staring down the barrel of an entire winter in the UK is starting to scare me...could you all explain how it's done please? I've recently sold my soul back to the devil and decided to go mainstream (and get one of those job things, that other people have), having done three ski seasons and the recent dip in weather conditions is making me wobble.
Have decided am going to need a daily injection of ski excitement whilst at work - can anyone suggest good blogs, ski websites, magazines and general sources of chit chat to keep me going?
Lorra love
Belle
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Sorry to break it to you Belle - you are no longer a "normal person" . I give it a month before the "I quit my job, can anyone recommend a town near an alpine ski resort where I can make a modest living and ski every weekend" post . Go on, you know you want to !
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The "Belle de Neige"? Still miss your blog. Keep us entertained with "best of" stories of your punters and seasonnaires and locals and we'll love you forever.
If you really have to go back to the UK, live in Scotland so you can still ski, or find another sports which is best in the UK winter (kayaking, ice climbing, gotta be more).
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
I have no idea, never had a job in the UK as it sounds horrible, I'm trying to blog a bit more these days, so if you are very bored check out jameswinfield.tumblr.com
Other than that, powdermag.com always has great articles, newschoolers.com (jibrats) and epicski.com (punters) are more US centric but occasionally have something interesting going on.
After all it is free
After all it is free
Move to Scotland or get involved in one of the Pennine or lake district clubs
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Belle de Neige, they are all miserable. Get out now, while you still can.
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The only way to survive the British winter for me is to get my turbo out and sit in the shed and cycle the nights whilst listening to music. And cling on to the forthcoming ski trip.
Not sure I'd be able to cope after having done ski seasons and coming back.
Sadly they all invariably require a second language, and whilst I'm competent at conversational French, the only way I'd become fluent would be to move there, and I can't move there without a job..
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
Belle de Neige wrote:
Have decided am going to need a daily injection of ski excitement whilst at work - can anyone suggest good blogs, ski websites, magazines and general sources of chit chat to keep me going?
Never be more than a couple of weeks away from your next ski trip. Magazines and websites just don't cut it.
Out of interest, why the decision to go mainstream?
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Move to Scotland or another country with decent skiing. No reason to get a sensible job away from mountains when you can get one near them.
get my turbo out and sit in the shed and cycle the nights
get out and ride! if ya can't be on skis, then riding a MTB in the snow is the 2nd best thing.
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Wakeboard... Def a good filler when not in the Mountains...
rob@rar, Nice pad btw Can I ask how you got your RSS feed for Les Arcs... Nice touch
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Just thinking about about the next powder day keeps my spirits up, but its tough, had a great morning cruising by myself last season before any one else was up, so put a little video together to help me get through the next couple of months, the music was the same as I was listening to, just a chill really
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
AlpineAddict wrote:
rob@rar, Nice pad btw Can I ask how you got your RSS feed for Les Arcs... Nice touch
Thanks. I built the website using Apple's iWeb (sadly now abandoned) and it has a plug-in for the RSS feed. I don't know much about how it works, other than it has a blog function with associated RSS I really must make more of it!
Sadly they all invariably require a second language, and whilst I'm competent at conversational French, the only way I'd become fluent would be to move there, and I can't move there without a job..
Not the ones I linked to - some German is obviously an advantage, but the company language is English, and it's possible to work (only) in English there even at the lowest possible rung assembling stuff in the factory.
In fact there are quite a few opportunities to work in English around here, particularly for engineers of various breeds. Swarovski often have fairly high level officey/account management/sales-type jobs too. IT people could also take a look at Barracuda Networks.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
All of the jobs I looked at said required good German skills . I work in IT though.
livetoski, Nice video mate... I love La Tania,a s is my first choice when visiting the 3V. After all teh pains I have had recently on my renovation project, this has reignited my enthusiasm for the coming winter
rob@rar, Thx for this... I must look into something like this...
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
macgyver, well just from the IT section there are two that don't mention German and one that only needs you 'to be able to communicate' in German. In fact only one actually actually asks for very good German! None of the marketing jobs require German (though one does require a native English speaker!), and of the fifteen Research/Development/Engineering positions, twelve don't even mention German, two state that some knowledge would be an advantage, and only one actually requires German!
So you can't have looked very hard!
After all it is free
After all it is free
Would it be any less dark in those towns where the real jobs are? I had forgotten about dark winters after living up a mountain for years but it's not so great down in the valleys.
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albinomountainbadger, depends which town you mean I guess. You could be at 5 different ski areas within 30 mins of leaving the office of the company I mentioned above, for instance; the nearest is 10 mins on the bus. The valley's quite wide at this point so no problems with light even in mid-winter, even less so in the suburbs up above the city. It would be pretty hard to design a better place to live (year-round/full time), in terms of a mixture of sport/social/economic opportunities.
I can't speak for Geneva/Cluses(?)/Annecy/Landeck/Munich/etc though. Would Chamonix and Bourg fall into the category of real town/city with 'real' jobs?
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clarky999, Thanks for the link, been thinking about trying to do something like this all summer.
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Belle de Neige wrote:
Staring down the barrel of an entire winter in the UK
Really? An entire winter? Surely you can manage at least one ski trip (and perhaps some week-ends in Scotland - travelling up Friday night and returning Sunday evening)? You need Something to look forward to, even if it is a while away.
PS This was a long weekend I did in mid April (!!) though I went up on Thursday evening so had potentially 3 days to ski. That was unusual but it is possible often from early November.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
clarky999, the technical editing job looks interesting! They are basically looking for a native English speaker with some German skills, more spoken I would hazard rather than written! I might just send off my CV and see what happens. I'm happy where I am (apart from the commute) but a positive response may help persuade my current company that I'm worth more!
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Samerberg Sue, go for it! It's one of a few companies I'm keeping an eye on for the future too.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
Belle de Neige,
When you can see that quite some snow has fallen in the alps, and a high pressure is on it's way, then you find a last minutes offer and go.
Preferably more several times each winter.
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Belle de Neige, they are riding bikes in the garage, watching movies, slavering over pictures of snow, living from one ski trip to the next and telling themselves they 'can't' do what they'd really like to do. GET OUT NOW!!
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AlpineAddict,
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livetoski, Nice video mate... I love La Tania
Thanks it was a fun morning
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Im having enough trouble waiting for november to come, let a lone a whole winter
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Lizzard wrote:
Belle de Neige, they are riding bikes in the garage, watching movies, slavering over pictures of snow, living from one ski trip to the next and telling themselves they 'can't' do what they'd really like to do. GET OUT NOW!!
Whereas those who are alpine residents are regular founts of unmitigated joy and endless stoke
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
livetoski, nice, a very relaxing watch.
To the OP.....the Lake Geneva area has plenty of opportunities to live close to the mountains and live a normal (well, expat) life the rest of the time.
After all it is free
After all it is free
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Staring down the barrel of an entire winter in the UK is starting to scare me...could you all explain how it's done please?
Booze - lots of it
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. I give it a month before the "I quit my job, can anyone recommend a town near an alpine ski resort where I can make a modest living and ski every weekend" post 
. Go on, you know you want to 
!
Can I ask how you got your RSS feed for Les Arcs... Nice touch 
. I work in IT though.
