Kirsten Cook

Six jobs at once, 2022-23 — and the writer who put Our Base Is Our People on the blog

Legend of Showdown

Born
First skied at Showdown
First worked here: the 2022-23 winter
Years at Showdown
Positions: Floater Extraordinaire, 2022-23
Ski instructor, 2022-23
Spanish interpreter for the J-1 workers, 2022-23
Ran the swag shop on weekends; assistant swag shop manager, 2023
Marketing assistant, and the writer of Showdown's blog, 2023
Rental shop technician, 2023
Awards: Employee of the Week, 5 February 2023, with Patrick Estes

What they did

5 entries

2022-23 seasonJoined the staff and held six jobs at once: marketing assistant, assistant swag shop manager, Spanish interpreter, ski instructor, rental shop technician and Floater Extraordinaire
5 February 2023Employee of the Week, as Floater Extraordinaire. Fluent in Spanish, she eased communication with the season's J-1 workers; she also taught skiing, ran the swag shop on weekends, and was creating a Showdown blog
March 2023Showdown's blog, It's All Down Hill, went live
17 March 2023Wrote Meet Our J1's, on the sixteen young workers from Chile, Argentina and Peru who came to Showdown for the season
3 April 2023Wrote Our Base Is Our People, setting down the creed Katie Boedecker wrote in 2018, which was on the wall inside the lodge's main entrance and whose refrain new employees heard on their first day

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