Golf Club Fitter: Fits golfers with custom clubs using launch monitors. Typical pay $55k.
Skatepark Designer & Builder: Designs skateparks for cities and builds them by shaping, spraying and finishing concrete bowls, ramps and rails, usually for a skatepark company. Typical pay $60k.
Ice Rink Manager: Manages an ice rink for a city, college or private owner, scheduling ice time, running public skating and lessons, and keeping the ice systems running. Typical pay $58k.
Stadium Concessions Manager: Runs food and drink stands at a stadium or arena, usually for a concessions company, managing staff, inventory and lines on game days. Typical pay $62k.
Tennis & Sport Court Builder: Builds and resurfaces tennis, pickleball, and basketball courts, from grading the base to painting the colored surface and lines. Typical pay $58k.
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Grounds Crew Member: Helps maintain sports fields: mowing, raking, rolling the tarp, and painting lines. Typical pay $38k.
Ice Resurfacer Operator: Drives the ice resurfacing machine between periods and skating sessions. Typical pay $36k.
Clubhouse Attendant: Takes care of a team's locker room: laundry, food, equipment, and errands. Typical pay $35k.
Bicycle Mechanic: Builds, repairs, and tunes bicycles at shops, races, and bike-share companies. Typical pay $38k.
Ski and Snowboard Technician: Tunes, waxes, and repairs skis and snowboards and mounts bindings. Typical pay $36k.
Racket Stringer: Strings tennis, badminton, and squash rackets to players' exact specs. Typical pay $35k.
Snowmaking Technician: Makes artificial snow at ski resorts, often on overnight shifts in freezing temperatures. Typical pay $42k.
Arena Conversion Crew Member: Transforms arenas between events, like turning a hockey rink into a basketball court overnight. Typical pay $36k.
Baseball Bat Maker: Shapes maple, ash or birch billets on a lathe into baseball bats built to each pro player's specs, then sands, paints and finishes them. Typical pay $40k.
Aquatic Facility Technician: Keeps pools at aquatic centers, colleges and YMCAs clean and safe, testing water chemistry and repairing pumps, filters and heaters. Typical pay $45k.
Snowcat Operator: Drives a large tracked snowcat through the night at a ski resort, grooming slopes into smooth corduroy and pushing snow for trails and parks. Typical pay $45k.
Terrain Park Builder: Builds and maintains jumps, rails and boxes in ski resort terrain parks with shovels and snowcats, testing features to make sure they are safe. Typical pay $40k.
Synthetic Turf Installer: Installs artificial turf on sports fields and landscapes, grading the base, rolling out turf, sewing seams and spreading infill for turf companies. Typical pay $42k.
Sporting Goods Sales Associate: Helps customers at sporting goods stores choose equipment, shoes and apparel for their sports, and stocks shelves and runs the register. Typical pay $31k.
Football Helmet Reconditioner: Inspects, repairs, cleans, and safety-tests football helmets and pads every off-season so teams can use them again. Typical pay $38k.
Ski Boot Fitter: Fits ski boots to customers' feet, heating, stretching, and grinding the shells and building custom insoles so boots don't hurt. Typical pay $42k.
Climbing Hold Shaper: Sculpts the colorful grips bolted to climbing gym walls, shaping them in foam or clay, then molding and casting them in urethane. Typical pay $42k.
Archery Pro Shop Technician: Sets up, tunes, and repairs compound bows and crossbows, building arrows and fitting each bow to the archer. Typical pay $36k.
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