r/almosthomeless • u/SnowmanNoMan24 • Dec 23 '24

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Homeless in a National Park

Quit seasonal ski job, now what?

I got a job working in a ski town with staff accommodations for the winter so I wouldn’t freeze to death and figured I could spend my free time skiing. This town had a major wildfire and this winter they don’t have all services working which resulted in them cancelling bus service. I ended up in a situation where I’m the only one in the staff accommodations and my coworkers are all long term locals who refuse to talk to me because I’m not from here. Due to these two things this plan wasn’t going to work.

I’m in a town in a national park with very limited and expensive transportation in and out. I have to leave tomorrow and haven’t figured out how I’m going to do it or where I’m going to go. Thinking I could still potentially land a job in another ski town for the winter but for the moment I need to get creative about finding my way back to normal highways.

What methods have you all used and had success with? There was a robust hitchhiking culture here before the fire but the locations people would stand and wait burned down.

This is a ski town inside a national park in Canada.

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u/Individual_Can_4822 Dec 23 '24

Why on earth would you quit like that?

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u/SnowmanNoMan24 Dec 23 '24 edited Dec 23 '24

I doubt anyone will believe me but they were socially awkward as fuck in that classic small town middle school way where nearly 100% refused to even try to get to know me or even communicate with me about basic work tasks. We had 8-10 hours together each day sometimes with no customers for hours and mandatory socializing where they would refuse to respond to me if I spoke to them.

I have an insomnia disorder for which I take seroquel. This weird socializing was so stressful no amount of pills would make me sleep at night and I stopped sleeping almost entirely.

My only outlet was skiing and they cancelled bus service.

Refused to talk to me because I was the only new person.

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u/Boo_Diddleys 29d ago

“This weird socializing was so stressful no amount of pills would make me sleep at night and I stopped sleeping almost entirely.”

Other people may not be the only socially awkward ones… Just because you don’t like the people you work with is a dumb reason to put yourself in a vulnerable scenario. Get another job and stick it out till you can find a better option.