 Poster: A snowHead
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has anybody got any experience of it? if so how much time do you get off on average? Whats pay like? what do you get payed for? etc
Im thinking of doing it for my gap year for a season.
much appreciated
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sun 28-10-07 19:38; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Christopher, Welcome to snowHeads 
In answer to your question, sorry, not a scooby, but good luck if you do.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Christopher, welcome to snowHeads
I've not worked as a transfer rep, so may be wrong, by my understanding of "transfer rep" is someone who works 1 or 2 days a week doing the extra transfers that the resort rep can't staff. Hence, you would get 5 or 6 days off....but wouldn't get paid much or get your accommodation included.
Is this what you are meaning, or have I misunderstood?
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sorry my fault i meant general repping
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Christopher -- Gapyears are a waste of time. Your study skills degrade fast. Go straight to uni.
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No problem.
Repping depends a lot of different factors. The company you work for, the other staff in the resort, the client group for the week etc. It can be very hard work, and you are the person who cops all of the complaints. Some of them will be valid, some of them will be things you can easily rectify, a lot will be becasue the person who sold them the holiday told them lies!! It helps if you are organised. The better planned you are, the more time you will get to ski. Time invested at the start of the season in getting to know the resort and the key people in it, will pay back later on. There are "easier" jobs in resort, but there can be a lot of satisfaction from repping.
I've only done peak week repping, so can't give you a person opinion on doing it for a season. If you haven't already, it's worth checking out www.natives.co.uk
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| Whitegold wrote: |
| Christopher -- Gapyears are a waste of time. Your study skills degrade fast. Go straight to uni. |
So, why is it that mature students consistantly outperform 18 yr olds at Uni?
Go for the gap year. You'll learn loads, have good fun, and apprach uni with a far more mature attitude.
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Whitegold, piffle and tosh, wish to hell I had had one, needed a break and it took a year of drinking and partying to get back on a study track
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Whitegold, In your infinite wisdom you have stumbled across a somewhat controversial matter. I am currently on a gap year and I would beg to differ. Despite being relativley clever I hated school-everything about it-so unwilling to "learn" but since starting my gap year i've done a complete u-turn-I now lookforward to oppurtunities to learn once again, and believe next year I will approach uni. with a more mature understanding. So despite the fact I work in tesco to fund my upcoming 3 months in Canada, I feel I remain relativley well educated and wil make a "good go" of university.
Ross
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Christopher, you will be unlikely to get a repping job with a TO at gap year age ( 18/19) Its not completley unheard of, but they generally prefer older people as you have a lot more responsbility than say chalet hosting/ bar work.
Pay - as with most ski jobs, a pittance, but plenty to live on as pretty much everything you need ( even cheap chalet wine!) is included, eg lift pass, accomodation, ski hire.
Repping itself - doing transfers, ski guiding, dealing with problems from injuries to suicides, broken marriages to broken bindings.
You'll get one full day off a week usually.
Have a look on natives to get a better idea of whats available and suitable to your skills. Most jobs, except Nannying tend to give you more than enough ski time.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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cheers for the advice, as you geuss i dont have much knowledge on the whole issue of working in a ski resort.
what does chalet hosting involve and how much time do you get off? etc
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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.
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Christopher, you're on the wrong site here - look at www.natives.co.uk. This is a forum for semi-fossilised old punters. 
Apply for rep/chalet jobs by all means, but at 18/19 you are more likely to land a hotel position - waiting/chamber staff, bar, KP/nightporter. The world and its dog advertises on Natives - currently about 500 jobs listed. As a general guide you can expect pittance wages supplemented by board and lodging, lift pass, travel, equipment hire. Working hours about 40 a week, one day off.
And don't listen to anything Whitegold has to say - I don't think he has ever set foot outside his own bedroom.
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Christopher, theres no hard and fast rules. Chalet hosting is working in a chalet, looking after guests, cooking and cleaning for them, taking them skiing, just making them feel at home. Its HARD work. I cant emphasis that enough. BUT its brilliant fun. How much skiing time you get depends on how good you are. An average day in Chalet NADE for a chalet host
7:27 - Get up
7:30 - start doing breakfast, put the porridge on etc
8-10 - serve brekkie, prep evening meal, make a cake, tidy common areas, nip round bedrooms
10 - 6 - ski/ board/ sleep / pub
6-6:30 - clear away afternoon tea/ cook and serve kids tea/ prep rest of evening meal
7:30 Lay up table
8:00 - Serve and eat dinner with guests, wash up
10ish - finish
Some days are harder and some easier depending on numbers/ guests/ weather- everything!
You'll get about 100euro a week and then you make tips on top of that ( again dependant on whether you are any good). You'll also get all your accomodation, food, ski hire, lift pass and insurance paid for. Depending on the size of the chalet you may be on your own, or with others, you'll need to be able to cook, not cordon bleu stuff ( unless you're a chef) but knowing how to put a good meal together is essential.
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You know it makes sense.
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well i can cook a mean tartiflette! that work sounds appealing, i prefer to be doing stuff all day rather than sitting on my back bottom. you say you take people skiing? does that involve like a couple of days a week averagedly? and how good does your skiing need to be?
i apologise for being so inquisitive
money wouldnt be too much of an issue as long as i got some left over from the season and as long as i could sustain myself with drinking etc
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Christopher, er, hold your horses there. Chalet hosting involves cooking food, washing up and cleaning toilets. If you want to ski with your guests that's up to you, but you do it on your own time - it's not generally part of the job. There are companies looking for ski guides, but again they prefer people with experience.
Now, go and look at Natives!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Christopher, ski guide- you should be a V. confident skier, able to ski reds and blacks happily.You're there to show them round the mountain, tell them crap jokes and flatter their (usually dire) ski skills. Like repping its more of an experience thing, youngest ski guide I knew was 21 and he'd already done a season as a chalet host. Ski hosts usually have to do chalet host duties too, like cleaning, doing changeover.
Natives is good- but READ some threads before you post otherwise they will eat you alive.
Are you planning on going this season or next?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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| Whitegold wrote: |
| Christopher -- Gapyears are a waste of time. Your study skills degrade fast. Go straight to uni. |
That idea is so last century!
One learns throughout one's life time. Not just until the end of uni. Those who stop learning gets left behind by time with their useless out-of-date knowledge. Looks like Whitegold himself might be one of such? 
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