Working seasonal job in alaska

[jaxtonsgram]

Hi: I'm not on the road yet but getting closers. 16 months(I hope).  I've been doing a lot of research and have been looking at summer jobs in Alaska at remote camps(fishing or hunting or adventure camps not campgrounds).  Most I've read provide room and board. Has anyone done this and would you be willing to share experiences and/or recommend any camps? I haven't worked a job in 25 years so have no experience or references...so I just got my first job to obtain both. Will be working part time as housekeeper at a B &B. I'm hoping to also get kitchen experience there. Any other suggestions on how to prepare to get a job at a remote camp and what to expect?
Thanks nora

 

[akrvbob]

In my experience getting people to go remote is such a problem that if you have any reasonable explanation for your work absence, you should be okay. Building a resume is still a very good idea.

I lived i Alaska for 45 years and was a tour guide for a summer in Kotzebue Alaska in 1979 and did a 6 week raft trip in the Brooks Range of ANWR in 1982. Recently I was a campground host at remote camps in the National Forests in the Rockies and Sierras. Some thoughts:
1) Love nature because that's the one thing you'll have in abundance
2) like the company of your own thoughts--that's the other thing you'll have in abundance
3) be able to entertain yourself
4) in Remote Alaska, you better be able to adapt to any weather and some very extreme weather because anything is possible at any time. Incredibly terrible weather is much more likely that good weather
5) Can you adopt to constant sunlight and then 6 months later constant darkness.
Bob

 

[Canine]

If you can cook you'll be ok. Cooks seem to be most in demand and draw the best wages.Good Luck.

 

[jaxtonsgram]

In my experience getting people to go remote is such a problem that if you have any reasonable explanation for your work absence, you should be okay. Building a resume is still a very good idea.

I lived i Alaska for 45 years and was a tour guide for a summer in Kotzebue Alaska in 1979 and did a 6 week raft trip in the Brooks Range of ANWR in 1982. Recently I was a campground host at remote camps in the National Forests in the Rockies and Sierras. Some thoughts:
1) Love nature because that's the one thing you'll have in abundance
2) like the company of your own thoughts--that's the other thing you'll have in abundance
3) be able to entertain yourself
4) in Remote Alaska, you better be able to adapt to any weather and some very extreme weather because anything is possible at any time. Incredibly terrible weather is much more likely that good weather
5) Can you adopt to constant sunlight and then 6 months later constant darkness.
Bob

Thanks for your thoughts. I live in upper peninsula of Michigan and although we don't get 24 hours of daylight it is light from around 5 am till 1030 pm at the height of summer. I do like my own company. I've lived most of this summer by myself ( my disabled kids don't talk). This would just be the summer season. I've not watched TV or a movie since may. I'm practicing to see if I can handle it and I don't really miss it at all. I guess I sort of want to prove to myself I can do something like this. I think what would bother me the most would be the people lol. 

I can cook for my family but nothing special. Would be willing to cook. Guess out in the boonies it couldn't be too fancy. 
Anyone want to spend the summer in a remote camp with me?  My husband isn't too eager to go. 
Nora

 

[Canine]

How old are you and could you post a picture?I'll bet somebody would take you up on it.Good Luck.

 

[jaxtonsgram]

How old are you and could you post a picture?I'll bet somebody would take you up on it.Good Luck.

Ha. I'm 58 and you wouldn't want to see a picture. Someone would have to want it for the adventure, not to be with me. ?
Nora

 

[Yogidog]

Ha. I'm 58 and you wouldn't want to see a picture. Someone would have to want it for the adventure, not to be with me. ?
Nora

Nora, just had to respond! Sorry I disappeared had to save my self in Michigan, wanted to meet up.  Work about did me in and that traffic!

Bob D knows what he is talking about and employers for this kind of work often ask for pics, looked into stuff like this, cool opportunities. We'll both bobs know what they are talking about!

 

[Yogidog]

Nora, just had to respond! Sorry I disappeared had to save my self in Michigan, wanted to meet up.  Work about did me in and that traffic!

Bob D knows what he is talking about and employers for this kind of work often ask for pics, looked into stuff like this, cool opportunities. We'll both bobs know what they are talking about!

I think employers just want to make sure we are presentable, not beauty queens! I bet u are fine, a way around that pic would be they hire at quartzite, if u can make it to rtr.

 

[jaxtonsgram]

I think employers just want to make sure we are presentable, not beauty queens! I bet u are fine, a way around that pic would be they hire at quartzite, if u can make it to rtr.

I wish I could make it to this year's rtr. Probably not till next onebut who knows, its5 months away. I can always dream.
Nora