summer in alaska

[rotorhead]

If you're planning on looking for work in the railbelt area or other spots on the road system and you're up to driving the AlCan, think trailer. You can always find older used camp trailers for sale at some pretty low prices down south. Of course, it's not cheap to pull one up here with gas prices what they are. Also consider that after a full summer cooped up together in the confines of a small trailer, you might be looking for another boyfriend at the end of the summer as well. Anyway, it's a thought.

How good are you at gutting and filleting fish? If you can sign on as a deckhand on a charter boat the tips can be pretty good...provided the captain can consistantly put the clients on fish! There are tons of 'six-pack' charter boats all up and down the Kenai penninsula, Seward, Clam Gulch, Anchor Point, Homer. These are all day boats, no overnights or far-offshore work for the tourist set.

There's a lot of adventure-type jobs available in the cruise ship tourism places if you have the right kind of experience, river rafting, kayaking, etc. The towns of SE are the hotspots for that kind of seasonal work, Juneau, Ketchikan, and especially Skagway. If you can pass the p1ss test you might consider applying for an aviation related job, like loading and unloading tour helicopters or lugging baggage to and from floatplanes. Some of the remote fishing lodges are usually looking for cooks, housekeepers, etc. The better ones are reportedly very good to work for and have very low turnover, but being stuck way out in the middle of nowhere at the mercy of your employer is the stuff of some pretty bad B movies.

Then there's the old-reliable...waiting tables. Here where I live in SE most of the restaurants close down for the winter; there's not enough business to keep them all open AND pay the heating bills. That means that the waitstaff and usually most of the cooks are all seasonal folks.

[barnacle9]

Rotorhead:

I think that info is very constructive - thanx

[oni1319]

thanks everyone for your helpful advice! keep it comin if anyone else has anything else to add