So that was good enough for me (once I figured out that “Copper” was actually a ski resort).Īnyway – Copper Mountain threw me behind the counter to sell tickets for lessons, lift access and events – and I was both miserable and absolutely horrible at my job. I had no idea how to be a ski bum, so I just drove to Denver from my home in AZ and asked an incredibly stoned ski shop employee where I should “ski bum,” and after about a ten-second pause, he said: “…………….Duuuuuuuuude, Copper’s raaaad!” Sidebar – in case you wondered why I chose Copper Mountain. What was really terrifying was thinking about all of the people who didn’t pass the test and were forced to run the lifts, but that’s another story. “If it is sunny outside, is it day or night?”Īnyway, I got all the answers right and was deemed “smart” so I was not allowed to be a waiter and instead forced to sell tickets at the ski school (b/c that is what smart people do, I guess 😊). This “science” consisted of giving every job applicant an aptitude test with insanely easy questions, e.g. I applied to be a waiter b/c I just wanted to wait tables, ski, and drink beer (not necessarily in that order).īut, Copper Mountain was owned by Mobile Oil at the time, and they were trying to bring “real hiring and management science” to those crazy ski resorts. In 1985, I applied for a job at Copper Mountain Ski Resort in Colorado b/c I wanted to be a ski bum – and to ski for free, you had to have a job on the mountain.

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