My professional experience has been influenced by many and I've gained new knowledge. Recent professional endeavors have started from an opportunity for a position that I mostly had no prior experience for and would required on the job training. I found I retained a lot of info if I was able to learn it and use it right away. Ski Patrol has taught me to be a self-sufficient, sharp, adaptable, quick thinking teammate, utility player, leader, ethics, and compassion. The Colorado Rapid Avalanche Deployment program has taught me loyalty, focus to detect subtle changes, be thorough, and confident. There is really a lot more a Ski Patroller learns from their experiences than what you can put on paper.
Prior to my Ski Patrol career, being an Auto Technician showed me how to breakdown problems in systems, find the cause, and repair it. Visual learning has taught me to picture a process in my mind and perform the task without actually seeing what I am doing. That type of critical thinking has crossed over into ski patrol, ski-tour route planning and has helped me picture metamorphic processes in the avalanche science world. One could even call it three-dimensional thinking.
Prior to my Ski Patrol career, being an Auto Technician showed me how to breakdown problems in systems, find the cause, and repair it. Visual learning has taught me to picture a process in my mind and perform the task without actually seeing what I am doing. That type of critical thinking has crossed over into ski patrol, ski-tour route planning and has helped me picture metamorphic processes in the avalanche science world. One could even call it three-dimensional thinking.