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To be able to support your mountaineering lifestyle, what do you guys do?
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Jbrow327 wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 6:44 pm To be able to support your mountaineering lifestyle, what do you guys do?
You're full of questions....


I'm a project superintendent for a golf course construction company. We also own courses, and offer management and support for courses all over the country.
Sports fields too.

I travel a lot to projects out of state, which can be tough on my preferred lifestyle, but at same time interesting and sometimes exciting.
Going to the desert of AZ in a few days, for 4 months, in the heat of the summer, not so great! But Scottsdale is nice.
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you can do 14ers with jorts and gas money, i work in IT though
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cottonmountaineering wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 6:58 pm i work in IT though
Then you know what chatbot is.
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For the last several years I worked for Trader Joe's. It's just grocery store money, but it's a better living wage than any other grocery stores, and the flexibility is what kept me there for so long. Made my own schedule so I could run or bike or peakbag in the morning and then work a 3pm-11pm. Was also able to take off whenever I wanted without any consequences - for example last year on July 5th I decided I wanted to do the JMT and explore the Bishop area so I put in for July 20-August 8 off and they were just like "sure have fun". Then I took off August 20-30 for a Telluride trip. Again, no problem. Money was always sort of tight but I'm fine with cheap rent for a tiny room in a shared house, fine with a very low budget diet, fine with mostly minimalism so I had no problem sending all my funds to gas and (sometimes secondhand, no bells and whistles) hiking gear.

Now, though, I work for a tech startup. Entry level stuff, my education is not in anything related. Better money is nice but the real draw was 1) a schedule of 10 hour shifts Thurs through Sun so I get Mon through Wed off every week and 2) being able to be full time remote, so I'm looking at a summer of living out of my car and renting office space in various mountain towns in CO, CA, MT, and fall in UT and AZ, so I can be out there all the time.
The lack of schedule flexibility now is a major drawback though. I don't get to call in and tell them I'm gonna work this day instead of that day based on the weather, like I did at TJs. Ah well, adulthood. It was a goal for most of my life to get a remote job so I can functionally live on the road while keeping healthcare and a steady income, startup world delivered.
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I make all my money via affiliate links selling extremely tiny blue backpacks.
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I promote satanism and partake in homosexual drug fueled orgies atop piles of tax payer money while slowly caressing my nipples with an autographed first edition of Das Kapital.

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Dave B wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:21 pm I promote satanism and partake in homosexual drug fueled orgies atop piles of tax payer money while slowly caressing my nipples with an autographed first edition of Das Kapital.
TMI, but :lol:

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highpilgrim wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:25 pm
TMI, but :lol:
Just figured I'd get it out there before Tucker Carlson gets ahold of it.
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Dave B wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:21 pm I promote satanism and partake in homosexual drug fueled orgies atop piles of tax payer money while slowly caressing my nipples with an autographed first edition of Das Kapital.
Huh. I figured you more the signed Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals type.
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