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Vail Resorts has had a $20/hour starting wage for anyone with a pulse for 3 years now. Higher skilled positions get you more money. The catch is most are 4 day positions where you might work more than an 8 hour day but supervisors are to make sure very, very few get over 40 hours meaning you could do 4 x 9.75 hour days with no overtime.

Four days of work...And THREE DAYS of skiing/snowboarding! What's not to like?

While I tend to agree, the big problem with that plan is there's no way $20/hr is going to pay the rent in that neck of the woods. You'd have to commute in from afar, eating into the pay as well.

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The catch is most are 4 day positions where you might work more than an 8 hour day but supervisors are to make sure very, very few get over 40 hours meaning you could do 4 x 9.75 hour days with no overtime.

Personally, I'd consider that a selling point, not a "catch"!

4x10s is a very common shift schedule in police work.

I've worked 5x8s, 4x10s, and 3x12s/4x12s alternating, and 4x10s is my preference by far.

Having a 3 day weekend, or even better a day off midweek, more than makes up for the extra couple hours you spend at work. You're getting up, getting dressed, and going to work that day anyway, so might as well stick around a little longer in exchange for not having to do so for an extra day each week.

(But it's not exhausting like 12s, which is too far that direction.)

I currently work 4x10s, with Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays off. I never work more than 2 days in a row without either 1 or 2 days off. Every other workday is my "Friday". It's the perfect schedule.

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I'm hoping my daughter brings home a loaf of Italian bread once in awhile.