Yellowstone
Anyone working at Yellowstone this summer?
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Ok, here goes.
We worked for The Yellowstone Association 2015 summer and will be returning 2016 summer. We worked in the Visitor Education Center (bookstore) at Old Faithful. This is a paid job. You are expected to work 30 hours/week per person with 2 consecutive days off. We were paid 9.00/hr (may going to 9.50 this year). This is a sales position and you are expected to promote membership in the YA. If you love Yellowstone this is not hard to do. Experience with POS systems is helpful, being tactful with all kinds of people is essential. There are a few slow times but generally you are quite busy. They provided a FHU site less than a mile from Old Faithful and subtracted 120$ /month for site. Many people hiked to work (around the bison). It is a wooded campground and satellite tv is difficult but not impossible. Cell service is adequate if you have Verizon. This can't be said for most areas of the park. You get discounts in the general stores and there is a coin operated laundry in the campground. It's a beautiful, magical place to live and work. But it is a job. The employees have get together soon and you get to know your fellow workers pretty well. Working with foreign visitors is .......an experience!
In talking with workers for concessionaires (Delaware North and Xantera) their work force is a little younger with lots of students (both domestic and foreign) and they 'work hard' as well as have dormitory style housing. We did not talk to camp hosts so cannot compare their experience.
Hope this helps!
We worked for The Yellowstone Association 2015 summer and will be returning 2016 summer. We worked in the Visitor Education Center (bookstore) at Old Faithful. This is a paid job. You are expected to work 30 hours/week per person with 2 consecutive days off. We were paid 9.00/hr (may going to 9.50 this year). This is a sales position and you are expected to promote membership in the YA. If you love Yellowstone this is not hard to do. Experience with POS systems is helpful, being tactful with all kinds of people is essential. There are a few slow times but generally you are quite busy. They provided a FHU site less than a mile from Old Faithful and subtracted 120$ /month for site. Many people hiked to work (around the bison). It is a wooded campground and satellite tv is difficult but not impossible. Cell service is adequate if you have Verizon. This can't be said for most areas of the park. You get discounts in the general stores and there is a coin operated laundry in the campground. It's a beautiful, magical place to live and work. But it is a job. The employees have get together soon and you get to know your fellow workers pretty well. Working with foreign visitors is .......an experience!
In talking with workers for concessionaires (Delaware North and Xantera) their work force is a little younger with lots of students (both domestic and foreign) and they 'work hard' as well as have dormitory style housing. We did not talk to camp hosts so cannot compare their experience.
Hope this helps!
