I WANT TO WORK FOR WAVEGARDEN!!!! but how?

Contact them maybe....

 

Pole vault over the fence and turn in your app. Seriously though you could probably turn in an app online. Thats how most company's do it now a days.

 

let us put together your resume, metard can help with graphics

 

What's your degree in?

Even though that doesn't really matter nowadays since college has turned into a scam to get young people into lifelong debt

 

Yes! Do it!

 

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Misison: I'm just a bro trying to get a job where I don't hate my life, can you hook it up? If you can, I promise not to blow it.

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nah, ya think?

 

Get in front of their business office and pole vault back and forth with a banner reading "Y'all bunch of wave making kooks!"

That will get there attention.

 

I would start by searching Google until you find the US equivalent. The fact that they're based in Spain would seem to hurt your chances with this specific company unless they have a US office. After that, since surfing is the type of sport that inspires a fair number of enthusiast to forego some more basic comforts in life for the sake of catching waves, recognize this is probably many people's dream job. If you've actually found a company that fits what you're looking for, you then should attempt to get the contact information for one or several decision makers at the company and offer to do whatever work they need done for free (Tip: I know it's the internet age but try picking up a phone and talking to somebody which actually passes as initiative today). In the off chance your free labor is attractive to them, go work for free and work your tail off asking for any additional responsibility you can get while you pray that a paying position becomes available that they think you're a good fit for.

 

This is pretty good advice. By just sticking to Wavegarden, you limit yourself quite a bit. How good is your Spanish anyway?

There's not many Wavegarden-like companies out there, and even if your degree is in engineering it's probably not advanced or specialized, so lets think elsewhere. You want to find multiple companies that you want to work for. Just concentrating on Wavegarden is unrealistic, at least in the short term.

So, make a list of companies and organizations that you would want to work for. Then try to contact the people who could give you a shot. Find out where these people would be- maybe industry shows, maybe charity meetings, maybe you could network at a memorial paddle out. "Hey dude excuse me I gotta take this call on my lifeproof Iphone 7."

Seriously though, think outside of the box about contacting them. If you can't afford to bust your ass for free, find a way to help them part time, or blow your savings on that instead of a surf trip.

And think of other companies. What about something like Waves for Water? Doing good, maybe seeing the world, and being in locations with surf? You could also use your (hopefully excellent?) GPA to move on to a four year school with a better/more appropriate major, perhaps in San Diego or Hawaii.

Edit: There's also Suny Maritime. It's in the Bronx, you could still surf. I met a dude at LB that was going there, learning to captain the boats that ferry supplies to container ships. You would be on the water. Hey, maybe you could end up captaining some surf trip yacht! If it works out, don't forget about 'ole Slashdog, every yacht needs a female massage specialist.

 

ho slashie! a lot of advice on employment from a starving artist

 

Wavehouse and Disney brah. I don't know what exactly you want to do with the company. The technology has been developed. Unless you are in construction or project management, I assume the only gig you would get is maintenance or a ride attendant.

Back to the technology. The wavehouse style waves can be lame, like the one in the link you showed, but they can also turn the thing up to be DOH Pipeline status, and then the pros get on it. Same is true for the one in Disney etc. They can make these things pump a lot harder, but the one in Orlando basically has a governor on it and the bottom contours and equipment were developed to max out with a very low output for safety reasons.

So, unless you can convince one of these companies to open up a location and be able to max out the output of a park, then you can take tickets, sells drinks or clean the pool.

Do what everyone else does. Find something you like to do and live by the ocean. I think most people that try and make their passion into their livelihood really sacrifice a lot of their lifetimes for no reason, while a few of them get through it and live the dream.

I am close to people that do surf camps, do a little shaping here and there. Whatever they can to get the bills paid and stay in the ocean. But they are also pushing 40 and showing up to the spot in a 20 year old minivan... Its all about being happy I guess. Funny thing is, I am in the water just as much as them....

 

True story: An email about 5 years ago to Under Armour almost landed me a wetsuit guinea pig development gig with them. No sh**. Sent an email to the development department. Took em months to respond, but they were interested. Almost worked out. Had I still lived in Maryland, I would have been wrapped in free rubber for the rest of time. The lady said no one else had ever mentioned wetsuits to them before. Go figure.

Just shoot somebody an email and don't sound like a bafoon.

 

Haha damn dude I knew that was comin down the pipe... but before I even finished my edit! Nice. You've got my number on that one. BTW if anyone wants portraits done of their favorite local breaks, I paint them for free, in exchange for transportation and room & board(s).

Then perhaps you can clue young polevaulter in to some of your academic and life choices.

 

Terrible Advice 101, by Zach619.

Graduate. Move to Hawaii, California or OZ and get a cheap apartment by the coast. Get a job bartending or waiting tables at a busy place. Somewhere with flexible hours, lots of free daytime and the ability to get shift covered at the drop of a dime and take a week off here and there.... Surf everyday of your life, as much as you want to.... Try and locate yourself by a major city and "Suss" things out for a year or two. Opportunity will eventually present itself to you in various forms. Friends, acquaintances, that drunk regular at your bar that really does turn out to run a very important business. Then you jump on it when you are ready and so on and so on. At least get a couple years under your belt of being very happy, making enough cash to live well and travel, then a few years later, when you want insurance and a 401K and all that crap, probably a wifey and all that, then you put your degree to use. Viola.

Bad advice I know, but it worked very well for this guy. Cause here is another poor assumption about wave parks. Most of them will be developed in land locked places. So, that kinda defeats the purpose, unless you want to train to be the best gentle wavepool surfer on earth.