So after posting about wanting to work for Google I was contacted by Pat Donahue at Structural Wealth Managment, a financial management start-up in San Francisco, CA. While Google would have provided a great learning environment with many bright people to learn from, they have done much of their growing.

Structural Wealth has a small but bright staff and lot more room to grow so I’ll be learning and involved in architecting a revolutionary product. Sounds like a win-win-win.

Not sure where I’m going to be living yet but I’ll figure that out later.

I’ve been working a lot lately which has actually been really nice. Its funny how absence makes the hear grow fonder even when it comes to work. When you work in the field of computers and you take a few months to live you realize there’s a lot of catchup to do.

For example, after finally getting invited to use google analytics and finding some fun tools like google sitemap I’ve gotten a new appreciation for how the internet works and really how information works in general. Plus I learned that there are quite a few people coming to this site even when I don’t update it. 85 page views on Sunday? That’s more than a few people who weren’t in church.

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Of all the types of bums in the world, ski bums probably have the most fun. Everyday we do the same thing; wake up early, eat, work, eat, ski, eat, drink, dream of skiing. There is no responsibility needed, just put in the 25-30 hours of work a week and ski the best snow on the mountain.

At first I thought it would get tiring or even boring to ski everyday but it’s simply not true. If anything skiing is one of the most addictive drugs there is. The more you ski the better you get. The better you get the more you want to ski. The body craves the adrenaline and builds a tolerance that can only be satisfied by ever increasingly challenging runs and deeper snow. Everyone who comes to the mountain whether they are an employee or a visitor is here for the same reason: to get high on powder snow.

For the past month now I’ve been working at the Goldminer’s Daughter Lodge as a cafe cashier or barista. This means I either place breakfast and lunch orders for people and take their money, or I make chai lattees, espressos and serve beer. I have my bar tending license and my food handlers permit so I can serve alcohol and prepare food… its kind of a scary thought. When I’m not steaming milk in the glassed in cafe which is a stone’s throw from the main base lifts, I’m working on becoming a better skier.

I haven’t met one person who was a ski bum and regretted it. I’m having a great time and I hope to ski with you.

Spent the day with the boys from Brookfield on the lake. Check out the pics.

Well I applied to two jobs out at Alta, my favorite ski mountain in the west and I got the one I wanted at the Gold Miner’s Daughter! They got 650″ of fresh pow last year and consistently get some of the best snow in the US. It may be a sasauge fest but that’s nothing new.

If you are reading this then it probably means you’re my friend, and that mean you need to come out there and visit me. You take care of the plane ticket and I’ve got the rest You have to come make some turns with me.

This is what I will look like next year (lot’s of sausage)
POWWWW!

Well this is my last night at Bowdoin where I will be staying in my own apartment. After this I’m just a visiting bum sleeping on someones couch. All the bums on the net yell hooooo!