Top Vacations for the Newly Unemployed

Work the Slopes

Losing your job doesn’t mean you have to give up skiing. It just means you have to make skiing your life. Hardship duty, we know.

Where: The Base Camp Group (44-0-20-7243-6222) offers ski instructor training courses around the world from Banff to Verbier, at prices to suit every budget. It provides coaching on the slopes, exam preparation, instructor shadowing, work experience, and credentials in first aid and mountain safety. When you finish, you’ll have an internationally recognized qualification, and you’ll even get job-interview coaching and access to Base Camp’s extensive online job vacancy database.

Price: A six-week course averages about $5,000.