re: Outdoor Jobs

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RogerTheShrubber


What is the difference between this Coolworks site and the site you posted in summer jobs thread? Is the company in the other thread basically a headhunter for these types of jobs?

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Nah, I think I posted Coolworks and our website, which is exclusively for our company. Coolworks is a posting site where outdoor companies or agencies can post job openings for work. Not all are directly outdoor related, sometimes they have IT jobs, etc. You can brows it by State, job, etc.

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Many of these can turn into careers. I highly recommend this as a career path. Tourism will never go away


Also- can these really turn into careers? Is it possible to make enough of a living (not rich, but not paycheck to paycheck)?

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Absolutely. I love it and have tried to do other things, but keep coming back. Starting pay for entry level summer work isn't great, but if you want to make a career it's a fast track to management. I started as a driver/guide for Cruise West years ago working seasonally, the next year I was operations lead, two years later I was asst. division manager and the following year I was division manager.

I'm working as Ops Manager for one of Alaska's largest tour companies (not the largest) and was hired as Sales Director, just switched to Ops this week. Absolutely love the energy, the travel, the fun things I get to do, working with hundreds of younger people, training them etc.

Lots of opportunity to start in the open door and pursue a career being a pilot, guide, fishing captain, etc. Like I said, entry is pretty low paying (though the tips are awesome) but it's a rapid advance if you choose to make it a career.


The best thing to do on Coolworks is pick "Jobs by State" and peruse the jobs available in each State.