Give me your knowledge of Alaska, Please (Wasilla: friend)

[Xa'at]

The coolest! Incidentally, you're missing an absolutely awesome (albeit cold) beautiful day. I am too, because I'm stuck inside doing calculus.

[cobolt]

Yea well don't post any pics and make the hurt worse!! We had a nice dusting of snow yesterday and the rain washed it away t his morning.....has been steadily raining ever since....

[Atalanta]

Originally Posted by Manmountain

No Brainer, fly to Fairbanks, go to College area and rent a room somewhere . Go thru the ads in the paper for a quicky job. You can go to all the roadhouses and festivals etc and meet tons of people , play volleyball at 2 in the am drunk , and then on your days off do Denali, fly on the local airline to a bushtown for the weekend.

And use the bus and buy a bike will take you everywhere.

Fairbanks huh.
I can't wait to get there to go thru the newspaper to find a job.
I will need to have one lined up before I go.
I will see if they have a newspaper on line
thanks

Originally Posted by stiffnecked

Ketchikan. The number one place in the summer for jobs. That is summer jobs. Start applying now as they are already starting to take applications. My sophomore college daughter has already started sending out resumes. She worked for the lumberjack show last summer and is looking for something less chessy....

I have not heard of Ketchikan, I will do a search and check it out.
Thanks for the tips

Originally Posted by Manmountain

This person has a career as a teacher and a job is low on the priority list.

As a first trip to get to know 'The Big Land' go to the SE for the summer?

Stuck in Ketch?, 400 miles and 700$ roundtrip to Denali?

Whats left of the real alaska will be found in the interior.

What do you mean about getting to know the Big Land, and what is left of Alalska is in the interior?
I take it not built up in the interior.
What town in the SE would you reccomend?

Originally Posted by bongo

I would work at Denali National Park, one of the most beautiful places in the world!! What an experience that would be. They even have employee dorms & dining room.

That thought has crossed my mind.
I will check 'er out

[Arcticthaw]

Fairbanks paper is the Newsminer newsminer.com • Fairbanks, Alaska
Fred Meyers, Wal-mart seem to always be hiring. If you come early enough you could get work with the visitor industry.

Working in Denali park area could be lots of fun especially if you feel or are younger.

[Xa'at]

Originally Posted by Atalanta

What town in the SE would you reccomend?

Although I always have a soft spot in my heart for Juneau, I'm going to say Ketchikan here, too. I believe they have the most seasonal jobs if you time it right.
But, if you're not sure how you feel about living in a tiny little town (9,000 ppl) in the middle of nowhere, you could try Juneau. We're a "slightly larger (30,000 ppl) town in the middle of nowhere"!

[bongo]

There are always the fish canneries for summer jobs, too. But I'd rather be in Denali than in fish slime any day, but that's just my personal bias. My husband did the canneries for a summer in his younger days & thought it was a blast.

[Barkingowl]

Here's a link to some useful Alaskan lingo...

JuneauAlaska.com: Local Lingo: How to speak Alaskan

[Xa'at]

Originally Posted by Barkingowl

Here's a link to some useful Alaskan lingo...

JuneauAlaska.com: Local Lingo: How to speak Alaskan

Those are funny...
But there's nothing more amusing to us than an outsider using too many of those words in an attempt to pass as a local...

[Barkingowl]

Originally Posted by Xa'at

Those are funny...
But there's nothing more amusing to us than an outsider using too many of those words in an attempt to pass as a local...

So its better to just be yourself...

[Xa'at]

Always.....