iluvtofly 0 #1 December 4, 2006 Hey all. So I just recently got my A license. Now I'm completely hooked. My roommates think I'm nuts because everyday I watch the same skydiving videos that I downloaded and talk about it nonstop. I just recently graduated college and am in the search for a job. Does anyone have any ideas of what kind of job will allow me to jump evenings and weekends? I can't find anything that won't interfere with my jumping. Unfortuantely only having my A license I can't be an instructor or coach yet. Please help. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,534 #2 December 4, 2006 Packing parachutes is hard work, and it pays reasonably well for something that you do at the DZ. It pays you for how hard you work, that's for sure. Most 9-5 jobs will let you jump weekends; evenings depend on your proximity to the DZ. One thing to consider is that if you plan your whole career around skydiving, you might end up in a less interesting job in the long run. And you'll be spending a lot of time at your job most likely. Wendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
beowulf 1 #3 December 4, 2006 Rob banks dressed in ex presidents masks. There is a nice how to movie out there somewhere. Just watch out for punk newbie FBI agents. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #4 December 4, 2006 That's QUARTERBACK PUNK to you! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RB_Hammer 0 #5 December 4, 2006 "Uh, Utah, get me two."..."I'm not lost. I don't know where I'm going, but there's no sense in being late." Mathew Quigley Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #6 December 4, 2006 Quote"Uh, Utah, get me two."... TWO! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MotherGoose 0 #7 December 4, 2006 You're a real blue flame special, aren't you, son? Young, dumb and full of come, I know. What I don't know is how you got assigned here. Guess we must just have ourselves an asshole shortage, huh?You think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimmytavino 16 #8 December 4, 2006 some good suggestions here regarding 'skydiving' related ways to get money,,, but there are also Non jumping ways... Spend less than you make..Stash money in a cookie jar or a coffee can. Money which you saved , by NOT buying a new CD or DVD or video Game... Pack a lunch rather than "going out" for lunch,,, ( I Know I Know,,, BORing.... well sitting on the ground at the DZ while your pals are getting in the plane,,,,, THAT'S pretty boring too....Stay the hell outta Bars !!!!!.. you can burn through plenty of lift tickets by going there...and then ( if it's the weekend) you're shot the next morning... Deliver Pizzas, shovel snow,,, mow lawns,,,sell your belongings on ebay... Use your imagination.. If you still have Youth on your side.. get going, and find a way to generate "surplus" income.... then use that to skydive with..... good luck jimmy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MotherGoose 0 #9 December 4, 2006 Dont forget selling blood and other "fluids", vital organs and "unwanted body parts", as well as prostitution. While your at it . . . sell your home and live at the dz, your life will be perfect .... promise! Oops forgot the [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags ...You think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #10 December 4, 2006 Guess we must just have ourselves an asshole shortage, huh? Quote Not SO far.....! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites MotherGoose 0 #11 December 5, 2006 -- Special agent Utah! This is not some job, flipping burgers at the local drive-in! Yes! - your surf board bothers me! Yes! - your approach to this whole damn case bothers me! And yes! - YOU BOTHER ME! And Pappas! Oh, for the love of Christ. How the hell did I even let you talk me into this whole bone-headed idea to begin with. -- Harp! We are working under-cover. It takes time. We've produced a few... -- NO! No no no no no no NO! Let me tell you what you've produced... Over the last two weeks, you two have produced exactly squat! SQUAT! During which time the ex-presidents have robbed two more banks. Now for Christ's sake, does either one of you have anything even remotely interesting to tell me? -- I caught my first tube today... Sir. Yes ...... we are geeks !!! and this is a helluva way to hijack a thread !!You think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites popsjumper 2 #12 December 5, 2006 Quote...While your at it . . . sell your home and live at the dz, your life will be perfect .... promise! Well, depends on your idea of "perfect" but it's working out for ME...except for Mondays when I have to clean up behind the DZ Kidz whose Mama doesn't work here anymore. My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites recovercrachead 0 #13 December 5, 2006 sell drugs.Track high, Pull LOW!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites DougH 270 #14 December 5, 2006 Marry rich!!!! I am waiting for the lotto to come thru, personally!!! "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites MotherGoose 0 #15 December 5, 2006 I hear yah . . . I lived at the DZ part time this year . . . I think I'm gonna move into my trailer permanently soon. At least its paid for. Kinda hard to pick up chicks with a 1973 Voyager mobile condominium!! Chicks can be really shallow like that ...You think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites popsjumper 2 #16 December 5, 2006 I'd have a better chance with the Voyager...they REALLY don't go for the bunkhouse. My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites hexadecimal 0 #17 December 5, 2006 Sell yourself on lower wacker drive in Chicago wearing a short skirt and a bad wig. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites adventurechick 0 #18 December 5, 2006 Bring tandems!, Sell plasma, pick up an extra odd job, move into a garage (living with a few people of the opposite sex who don't speak english, might be a bad idea though), quit going out (no bars or restaurants), or you can just find yourself a sugar mommy....lol jk. PMS #449 TPM #80 Muff Brother #3860 SCR #14705 Dirty Sanchez #233 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jarrodh 0 #19 December 5, 2006 The funny thing for me is that I have loved that movie for years before I started skydiving. Its such a cheesy but awesome movie and me and my brother have been watching it since I was about 8. My favorite part is when Ronald Reagan (swayze) is at that gas pump and he usues it as a flamethrower. I think about attempting that everytime I fill up but Id rather not be incinerated.2 BITS....4 BITS....6 BITS....A DOLLAR!....ALL FOR THE GATORS....STAND UP AND HOLLER!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites airtwardo 7 #20 December 5, 2006 Quote"Uh, Utah, get me two."... I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhino, I should have had you get me three of these ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites MotherGoose 0 #21 December 5, 2006 QuoteQuote"Uh, Utah, get me two."... I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhino, I should have had you get me three of these "Let me tell you something, Harp. I was in this bureau while you were still popping zits on your funny face and jacking off to the lingerie section of the Sears catalog. But there's something I've learned in all my years..........Respect for my elders !! "You think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites MotherGoose 0 #22 December 5, 2006 QuoteI'd have a better chance with the Voyager...they REALLY don't go for the bunkhouse. Well you're absolutley right there, they arent big fans of the "open concept" living conditions. The privacy and coziness of a nice weathered old trailer is all they need.You think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites airtwardo 7 #23 December 5, 2006 QuoteQuoteQuote"Uh, Utah, get me two."... I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhino, I should have had you get me three of these "Let me tell you something, Harp. I was in this bureau while you were still popping zits on your funny face and jacking off to the lingerie section of the Sears catalog. But there's something I've learned in all my years..........Respect for my elders !! " Do you think that taxpayers would like it Utah, if they knew that they were paying a federal agent to surf and pick up girls? Babes. I beg your pardon? The correct term is Babes, sir. ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites MotherGoose 0 #24 December 5, 2006 You know nothing. In fact, you know less than nothing. If you knew that you knew nothing, then that would be something, but you don't!! Think we can petition for a sequel?? The long-awaited return of Johnny Utah !! Id pay to see that in a heartbeat. More 5 minute freefalls from 4500 feet !!! I just cant get enough!!!!You think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites airtwardo 7 #25 December 5, 2006 The long-awaited return of Johnny Utah Didjano...that Mathew Broderick was supposed to play Johnny? THAT woulda SUCKED! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL. Insert image from URL × Desktop Tablet Phone Submit Reply 0
MotherGoose 0 #11 December 5, 2006 -- Special agent Utah! This is not some job, flipping burgers at the local drive-in! Yes! - your surf board bothers me! Yes! - your approach to this whole damn case bothers me! And yes! - YOU BOTHER ME! And Pappas! Oh, for the love of Christ. How the hell did I even let you talk me into this whole bone-headed idea to begin with. -- Harp! We are working under-cover. It takes time. We've produced a few... -- NO! No no no no no no NO! Let me tell you what you've produced... Over the last two weeks, you two have produced exactly squat! SQUAT! During which time the ex-presidents have robbed two more banks. Now for Christ's sake, does either one of you have anything even remotely interesting to tell me? -- I caught my first tube today... Sir. Yes ...... we are geeks !!! and this is a helluva way to hijack a thread !!You think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #12 December 5, 2006 Quote...While your at it . . . sell your home and live at the dz, your life will be perfect .... promise! Well, depends on your idea of "perfect" but it's working out for ME...except for Mondays when I have to clean up behind the DZ Kidz whose Mama doesn't work here anymore. My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
recovercrachead 0 #13 December 5, 2006 sell drugs.Track high, Pull LOW!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DougH 270 #14 December 5, 2006 Marry rich!!!! I am waiting for the lotto to come thru, personally!!! "The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MotherGoose 0 #15 December 5, 2006 I hear yah . . . I lived at the DZ part time this year . . . I think I'm gonna move into my trailer permanently soon. At least its paid for. Kinda hard to pick up chicks with a 1973 Voyager mobile condominium!! Chicks can be really shallow like that ...You think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #16 December 5, 2006 I'd have a better chance with the Voyager...they REALLY don't go for the bunkhouse. My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hexadecimal 0 #17 December 5, 2006 Sell yourself on lower wacker drive in Chicago wearing a short skirt and a bad wig. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adventurechick 0 #18 December 5, 2006 Bring tandems!, Sell plasma, pick up an extra odd job, move into a garage (living with a few people of the opposite sex who don't speak english, might be a bad idea though), quit going out (no bars or restaurants), or you can just find yourself a sugar mommy....lol jk. PMS #449 TPM #80 Muff Brother #3860 SCR #14705 Dirty Sanchez #233 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jarrodh 0 #19 December 5, 2006 The funny thing for me is that I have loved that movie for years before I started skydiving. Its such a cheesy but awesome movie and me and my brother have been watching it since I was about 8. My favorite part is when Ronald Reagan (swayze) is at that gas pump and he usues it as a flamethrower. I think about attempting that everytime I fill up but Id rather not be incinerated.2 BITS....4 BITS....6 BITS....A DOLLAR!....ALL FOR THE GATORS....STAND UP AND HOLLER!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #20 December 5, 2006 Quote"Uh, Utah, get me two."... I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhino, I should have had you get me three of these ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MotherGoose 0 #21 December 5, 2006 QuoteQuote"Uh, Utah, get me two."... I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhino, I should have had you get me three of these "Let me tell you something, Harp. I was in this bureau while you were still popping zits on your funny face and jacking off to the lingerie section of the Sears catalog. But there's something I've learned in all my years..........Respect for my elders !! "You think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MotherGoose 0 #22 December 5, 2006 QuoteI'd have a better chance with the Voyager...they REALLY don't go for the bunkhouse. Well you're absolutley right there, they arent big fans of the "open concept" living conditions. The privacy and coziness of a nice weathered old trailer is all they need.You think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #23 December 5, 2006 QuoteQuoteQuote"Uh, Utah, get me two."... I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhino, I should have had you get me three of these "Let me tell you something, Harp. I was in this bureau while you were still popping zits on your funny face and jacking off to the lingerie section of the Sears catalog. But there's something I've learned in all my years..........Respect for my elders !! " Do you think that taxpayers would like it Utah, if they knew that they were paying a federal agent to surf and pick up girls? Babes. I beg your pardon? The correct term is Babes, sir. ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MotherGoose 0 #24 December 5, 2006 You know nothing. In fact, you know less than nothing. If you knew that you knew nothing, then that would be something, but you don't!! Think we can petition for a sequel?? The long-awaited return of Johnny Utah !! Id pay to see that in a heartbeat. More 5 minute freefalls from 4500 feet !!! I just cant get enough!!!!You think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #25 December 5, 2006 The long-awaited return of Johnny Utah Didjano...that Mathew Broderick was supposed to play Johnny? THAT woulda SUCKED! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites