OMG what shall I do?

You will get one of them and have many,many weeks of skiing waiting in the wings :D

Strikes me that you should make the decision quickly and re-arrange the holiday now and in a few days it won't be an issue. The decision is the hardest part, the rest just falls into place after that.

Better to make the wrong decision quickly than make no decision at all.

Hi all, long time no post.

I think you made the right decision with the interview. The snow will always be there (hopefully!) but in this climate there aren't too many jobs going.
I was all set to go and do a season in Banff getting my instructor badges. I had paid some of the money and was set to leave mid December.
I applied for a graduate scheme for next September when I get back but didn't get the job. They rang back 2 days later and offered me a permanent job that was better than the grad scheme with better opportunities. The only catch was it started straight away and not next year.
A massive amount of soul searching went on, with my heart and finances committed to Canada and my head and logic saying take the job.
5 weeks into the job and I definitely made the right choice although I am still gutted.

I reckoned it was better to get a job in the industry I wanted, at a time when graduate jobs are hard to come by. As you said, no job = no skiing. Plus, my new company have been very understanding and have said I may be able to the course in a few years time. If it leads to happier times at a job you enjoy, then it must be worth it! :-)

Thank you everyone, you have helped a lot...I will be changing my holiday dates first thing in the morning. I've set my heart on where I'm booked to go and I don't want to risk there being no spaces left for February. Tino you're right the sooner the better! :D

Good to see you back online smirnoffskier!

snowb4ndit wrote:Thank you everyone, you have helped a lot...I will be changing my holiday dates first thing in the morning. I've set my heart on where I'm booked to go and I don't want to risk there being no spaces left for February. Tino you're right the sooner the better! :D

Good to see you back online smirnoffskier!

Hiya. Sorry to hear you wont be joining us in ADH now, but I am pleased its for the right reasons. For the sake of a £20 admin fee, changing the holiday is absolutely the right thing to do. I was looking forward to skiing with you and Scapula, but there will be other opportunities. Whereas, there might not be other opportunities for your career. Best of luck for the job, although I feel a little sad you 2 won't be there now.

Tony_H wrote:

snowb4ndit wrote:Thank you everyone, you have helped a lot...I will be changing my holiday dates first thing in the morning. I've set my heart on where I'm booked to go and I don't want to risk there being no spaces left for February. Tino you're right the sooner the better! :D

Good to see you back online smirnoffskier!

Hiya. Sorry to hear you wont be joining us in ADH now, but I am pleased its for the right reasons. For the sake of a £20 admin fee, changing the holiday is absolutely the right thing to do. I was looking forward to skiing with you and Scapula, but there will be other opportunities. Whereas, there might not be other opportunities for your career. Best of luck for the job, although I feel a little sad you 2 won't be there now.

The main reason I have been in such a quandary about this Tony is because we were going to be meeting up with you and Mrs H. If it wasn't for that, changing the holiday to three weeks later would be no hardship.

I did explore the option of flying back for the interview but that would mean missing two days skiing and it would have become very complicated.

I hope there will be another opportunity for me to see you put thise Neos to work. :wink:

Hi Snowbandit,
I'm glad you came to a decision about this. It seems the silver lining in the cloud is that the snow is likely to be much better in Feb than Jan :D. You just need to find some more friends to go with now.

Smirnoff skier,
Well done for finding a job. My older daughter is graduating this summer and there don't seem to be many jobs around.

Ally

AllyG wrote:It seems the silver lining in the cloud is that the snow is likely to be much better in Feb than Jan Ally

Listen at Michael Fish here :wink: