Gotta say I’ve seen a lot of young people here taking jobs in hospitality and tourism.
There are jobs here for you if you’d like to explore Alaska in your free time.
Opportunities to study abroad and earn some good money exist. We heard several times about young people who came here for better wages than at home.
They’re working hard in tourism serving people like us while we travel. We appreciate that.
There seem to be staffing shortages at the same time. We’ve been the invisible table at restaurants, been ignored after ordering and waiting for the rest of our order, been refunded for food we never received, and sat in the ZONE between being finished with our meal and waiting for the check to arrive.
That tells me that if you decide to come and work here you will WORK. You may be put in situations where you don’t know or have’t been trained. The businesses need you and don’t have time to train. Seems like Alaska hasn’t quite caught up again to post Covid slumps.
Tomorrow we fly home. What a trips it’s been. dmc