I've lived in Steamboat for 19 years, but I've been coming here since the early 1970's. I remember once coming to stay for the summer when I graduated from college. So, I started looking for a job in the classifieds, in the Pilot, which only came out once a week, if memory serves...
Here's what I found: construction jobs, heavy equipment jobs, waitstaff jobs, county jobs, and a few specialized type gigs like nursing, attorneys, doctors, etc.
Well, I was a newly minted grad with a BA in Anthropology, hardly a marketable skill set, but still, I was young, wanted to work, so I got a job at the Holiday Inn. At the "Greenhouse", a 24 hour restaurant. I turned out to be the world's worst waiter. In fact, and I don't know if this was "gender discrimination", or just red-neckness, but almost every baseball cap wearing, pickup truck driving dude, specifically asked if debbie could please wait on them, not me.
I handled the rejection well, but the message was clear: this was not a man's job! At least, thats how I felt. I was unceremoniously fired a few months later, when the cash register was short fifty bucks. I didn't steal it, but I got fired for it as if I did. No biggie. That was just the first in a long series of shitty job experiences in Steamboat Springs.
In the next installment, I'll tell you a few more stories of being overqualified  by virtue of my higher education. I had to lower my expectations... so I left town, went back to Orange County, and enrolled in grad school. Not all bad.