Rocky Mountain High

So last night I was thinking (again) to myself. I thought "self, you only have another 6 months to live in the midwest because you have to, where are you going to live after that?" and you know what self said afterwards? "Clearly the mountains or a beach."

I've been doing research on different ways to work in the mountains. Yes, IN the mountains. None of this Denver bullshit. Sure, Denver is nice. But the thought of looking at mountains and knowing I'm not actually there would make me too sad every day. But it's really hard to find a good PR firm/boutique in the mountains, as I'm sure you can imagine. So I started looking into my options in working for a resort. I stumbled upon the Vail College Program.

On the surface it looks a lot like the Disney College Program. A bunch of college kids who either want to live out there childhood dream of living in Disney World (nothing wrong with that, because I was totes accepted to be in the DCP, but had to decline) or a bunch of college kids who want to do nothing but live in the mountains like John fucking Denver. I'm choosing the latter on this one. I have some reservations about it, though. Like I said, it's a lot like DCP. DCP can either REALLY help you or it can just be a way to get away from everything and live in a fairytale place for 6 months while working a minimum wage job. That's like the Vail program. There's a lot of internships that are offered, but there are also a LOT LOT LOT of minimum wage jobs offered too like serving.

But then I really got to thinking again. How bad would it be to spend a semester in the mountains and living the dream? And you know what I thought after that? Not bad at all.

So I took it upon myself to apply last night. I filled out the obnoxiously long application and told them all about how awesome I am. I uploaded my resume and as of 10 this morning I got an email back saying they had reviewed both and I had passed the first round of screening. Now, I don't know how hard it is to get through the first round of screening, but we'll see. They said they start really recruiting in July, so I should be expecting to make an appointment for a phone interview within the next 2-3 weeks.

So there's that. Now I'm just going to go back to my mediocre life in Iowa.