A soon to retire old timer looking for some info

[Swissdog2010]

Yes, it may seem odd, but there you have it. Doc, who moderates the CM forum suggested I might find an answer to my question here.

There is a strong likelihood that I will retire within the next 2-3 years. I am very much interested in making Disney my second career. I have a background in Engineering with experience in Teaching as well, both corporate and college. My dream job would be splitting time between the parks and corporate training (Disney University?) I would love to be able to talk to someone about those opportunities. I have tried the Disney Career site but that seems oriented to specific job searching whereas I need a little 'face time' to ask some less specific questions. We come to WDW twice a year so I can walk over to Casting but I'd like to know some things before I do that. Is there anyone out there that could point me to a resource where i could pose some questions? Doc said CMs frequent this forum and might be able to help. I'd appreciate anything anyone can offer. Thanks in advance.

 

[leeg229]

Hmmm I wish I could help, but I'm not too knowledgeable about how you would go about doing something like this but I just wanted to say that I think it's awesome that you'd make Disney a second career. I think the corporate training would be fascinating. Or since you have collegiate teaching experience maybe you could teach a College Program class like Organizational leadership, Corporate Analysis, or Exploring Leadership which takes trips to the park to study the lessons you learn in the classroom in action. But like I said I have no idea how you get into something like that and I hope that another poster is more knowledgeable than I am.

 

[Swissdog2010]

Hmmm I wish I could help, but I'm not too knowledgeable about how you would go about doing something like this but I just wanted to say that I think it's awesome that you'd make Disney a second career. I think the corporate training would be fascinating. Or since you have collegiate teaching experience maybe you could teach a College Program class like Organizational leadership, Corporate Analysis, or Exploring Leadership which takes trips to the park to study the lessons you learn in the classroom in action. But like I said I have no idea how you get into something like that and I hope that another poster is more knowledgeable than I am.

Thanks, actually you did help since a principle area that i've taught is leadership and team building. I was part of a group that developed a leadership training class at work (army R&D post) and I taught a few leadership course at the college level so that gives me something to discuss if i find someone to talk to, so thanks.