Kevin Stickelman made a career out of his favorite hobby.
Stickelman got his first taste of skiing at age 10, on a fifth-grade field trip to a resort in Missouri. He spent his teen years and early 20s dabbling in the ski industry, working as an instructor at resorts across the Midwest and the West. But it took a “temporary” stint in Park City, Utah, to show Stickelman that skiing jobs were just as legit as the engineering jobs he initially intended to pursue.
A decade into his ski career, after a series of promotions, Stickelman took  … More