I volunteer at the mountain as either ski patrol or a snowboard instructor. I do 13 days of work (almost always before the mountain even opens - setting up signs, fences, shovelling snow, etc.) and then get a free season pass and have no other responsibilities for the year.
Even when buying a pass it's $900 for the year... which means I just pickup 2 weeks of some odd jobs to pay for it.
I bought my snowboard gear around 7 years ago (used).. so at this point it has cost cents per day.
I have no money from "when I was a software engineer", so it's not like I'm living on some big slush fund or something - I just make smart decisions now about how much money I spend, because that directly dictates how much I'll have to go to work.
I volunteer at the mountain as either ski patrol or a snowboard instructor. I do 13 days of work (almost always before the mountain even opens - setting up signs, fences, shovelling snow, etc.) and then get a free season pass and have no other responsibilities for the year.
Even when buying a pass it's $900 for the year... which means I just pickup 2 weeks of some odd jobs to pay for it.
I bought my snowboard gear around 7 years ago (used).. so at this point it has cost cents per day.
I have no money from "when I was a software engineer", so it's not like I'm living on some big slush fund or something - I just make smart decisions now about how much money I spend, because that directly dictates how much I'll have to go to work.