{"id":7739,"date":"2021-02-25T14:34:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/?p=7739"},"modified":"2021-02-25T14:34:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:34:40","slug":"where-did-the-season-go-kicked-out-of-the-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/where-did-the-season-go-kicked-out-of-the-alps\/","title":{"rendered":"Where did the season go? Kicked out of the Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly affected every single person on the planet. The job market has been hit especially hard by the virus, and with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/News\/Latest-news-from-LSE\/2020\/j-October-20\/One-in-10-young-people-lost-their-job-during-covid-19-pandemic#:~:text=More%20than%20one%20in%2010,pandemic%20began%2C%20new%20research%20shows.\">one in ten<\/a> young people having lost their job due to the pandemic\u2019s effects, what are they doing with all their free time in lockdown? Laura Snook, a 22-year-old from Cardiff, lost her job, quite literally, overnight. Lockdown measures forced Laura to abandon her job in the Alps as a resort representative and move back home to England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Life in the Alps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/image-of-laura-1.jpg\" alt=\"Laura at age 19 skiing on one of her first seasons in the Tignes, France.\" class=\"wp-image-7745\" width=\"771\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/image-of-laura-1.jpg 911w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/image-of-laura-1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/image-of-laura-1-770x536.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/image-of-laura-1-293x204.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/image-of-laura-1.jpg\" alt=\"Laura at age 19 skiing on one of her first seasons in the Tignes, France.\" class=\"wp-image-7745\" width=\"771\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/image-of-laura-1.jpg 911w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/image-of-laura-1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/image-of-laura-1-770x536.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/image-of-laura-1-293x204.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Laura on season, skiing between shifts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But what exactly is a seasonaire? In essence, it is someone who works \u2018seasons\u2019, usually in alpine areas, such as the Alps. During summers and winters, a plethora of youth flock to the mountains for a laidback life of hospitality work and mountainous adventures. For Laura, it was more than just a job. It was a lifestyle. A typical day in the life of a winter seasonaire would be a swift wake up for the morning shift in waiting or cleaning, on the slopes by 11am, a day of wondrous snow sports, an evening shift in waiting or bar work, and a night of raucous partying to follow. \u201cI absolutely fell in love with it out there\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2019-2020 winter season was going ahead as planned, even after Coronavirus crept into countries and forced mass lockdowns. Laura says \u201cwe were quite remote. Away from anyone, we had no local cases at all\u201d. As you can imagine, the sporting spring chickens thought their isolated cove in the mountains would be safe from the virus. Alas, the resorts wouldn\u2019t function without tourists, and the tourists brought the virus with them. \u201cWe heard on Saturday night at 8pm, that as of midnight that day, that France was going into a full lockdown.\u00a0All hotels, all bars, all restaurants basically had to close down completely. And for us, that basically meant we were out of a job in the space of like, 24 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sbit.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SBIT-Brexit-Impact-assessment-Dec-2017-Hi-Res.pdf\">Seasonal Business in Travel<\/a> say that this employment group (travelling from particularly the UK to European ski resorts) are \u201carguably already the worst hit by the pandemic\u201d, and \u201cstand to lose training and job opportunities\u201d. Wales in particular spend \u00a3792 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-55230533\">ABTA<\/a>, on outbound tourism, creating 12,373 jobs and contributing \u00a3639 million, which includes programmes to take people to the Alps to learn to snowboard. Laura\u2019s job loss represents a massive economic knock-on effect for the U.K. in terms of tourism post-Brexit alongside recovery from the pandemic. For the seasonaires themselves, thoughts turned to more pressing matters, such as finding a home to go back to after throwing all of their belongings into a bag and being put on a flight back to the U.K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura was lucky enough to have been able to return to the loving arms of her parents in her childhood home in Cardiff, Wales; unlike many of her friends, who were forced to couch surf until they could find a place to stay for the duration of lockdown. Homeless and jobless, the spirit of the seasonaire, one known to be fierce and unrelenting, had been knocked sideways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a distinct lack of media coverage on the specific job loss of seasonal workers, making them feel wholly forgotten about and abandoned. \u201cI think both myself and a lot of other seasonaires, we do feel very disposable at the moment\u201d. The precariousness of their situation was not helped by having no protections in place from Government, as they did not qualify for the furlough scheme, alongside a plummeting job market. Of course, Brexit is the nail in the coffin; for many, it was their last season, a season that was bitterly cut short and jaded by the effects of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura considers herself one of the lucky ones. \u201cI was very fortunate that I was able to pick up a job in ASDA\u201d. A short 15-minute drive from home combined with flexible hours means that although it doesn\u2019t hold a candle to the thrill and ferocity of a life working in the mountains, Laura still holds autonomy over her spare time and isn\u2019t stuck in a 9-5 office job. &nbsp;Laura\u2019s itch to stay active and never rest was not satiated by ASDA though; she couldn\u2019t leave her sporting hobbies by the wayside. An avid mountain biker, Laura took to the trails in Cardiff whenever she could, which, she says, gave her back a bit of the lifestyle that had been ruthlessly torn away from her. \u201cI\u2019m so lucky that we live in a part of Wales where we have got a lot of local bike trails. For me, it\u2019s really important to still be able to go mountain biking\u201d. By the smile on Laura\u2019s face as she rips down the trails, it is evident that the outdoor sporting life is one that she is unwilling to give up on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"Laura smiling after a day of riding at the Forest of Dean\" class=\"wp-image-7746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-770x511.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-1536x1018.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-293x194.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-1400x928.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"Laura smiling after a day of riding at the Forest of Dean\" class=\"wp-image-7746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-770x511.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-1536x1018.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-293x194.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/DSC_1742-copy-1400x928.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Laura smiling on a sunny day, riding at the Forest of Dean <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The relentless social aspect of season work &#8211; interacting with your guests, living and working with a group of strangers with whom you share lift passes and drunken stumbles, meeting new people every day in bars and on slopes or doing park laps \u2013 now seems a world away in a climate of social distancing and lockdown. For Laura, mountain biking bridged a crucial gap. \u201cI\u2019ve met all these great new friends through mountain biking\u201d, she says. \u201cThere\u2019s this whole community of mountain bikers. It\u2019s really just like being on season\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Precarious future <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many, the effects of the Coronavirus have left gaping holes in their lives. For most seasonal workers who were displaced, this virus has come at a time when they were living their last days of youthful exuberance in the carefree Alpine lifestyle. It is likely that most of them must begin to fulfil their passions elsewhere, Brexit having slashed their chances of finding work in the Alps as U.K. nationals, over French nationals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura herself worries about the future, despite her current security. She is starting to think practically about jobs in the U.K. \u201cI might want to be a bike mechanic\u2026 I just think I need to start thinking more about the future\u201d. She speaks only for the seasonaires that she knows, but as someone who has been doing seasons for over 4 years, her list is quite significant. \u201cFor season jobs and for jobs back in the U.K. now, they\u2019re so hard to come by with Brexit and COVID impacting the economy massively that, it really has made us worry about the future and what jobs will be available to us\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-2021-02-25-at-11.15.09.png\" alt=\"Laura riding down a trail at the Forest of Dean. \" class=\"wp-image-7747\" width=\"549\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-2021-02-25-at-11.15.09.png 496w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-2021-02-25-at-11.15.09-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-2021-02-25-at-11.15.09-293x190.png 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-2021-02-25-at-11.15.09.png\" alt=\"Laura riding down a trail at the Forest of Dean. \" class=\"wp-image-7747\" width=\"549\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-2021-02-25-at-11.15.09.png 496w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-2021-02-25-at-11.15.09-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/life360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/02\/Screenshot-2021-02-25-at-11.15.09-293x190.png 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Seasonaires like Laura hope to find a way through this unprecedented situation with grit and a healthy determination to not fit the 9-5 mould. For them, the only certainty is the uncertainty; but of course, living season to season, uncertainty is just part and parcel. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" title=\"Where did the season go?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QFo20ESoQkE?start=26&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"Where did the season go?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QFo20ESoQkE?start=26&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div><figcaption>Where did the season go? 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