Have you ever....

[Br'erBriere]

Thought about quiting your job to go work as a DVC guide?

I currently work in sales (account manager) and daydream every so often of how cool it would be to move from New York to Florida and work for the mouse.

They always say do something you love and you never work a day in your life. Well I can't imagine how much better it would be than to sell and talk about disney all day long to people and get them excited to want to own a piece of it.

The only thing I'd be concerned about would be how much guides make. Anyone know, anyone every consider this, anyone ever make the jump?

 

[vicki_c]

Never had that particular dream. And Florida has its good points definitely, but so does Buffalo! I moved from there to there myself a few years ago and it really wasn't all it was cracked up to be, for me and my family. Now I didn't work at Disney, of course, but I just think there's a big difference between visiting for vacation and living there all the time. We actually enjoy the parks a lot more now that we are further away -- it's more of a vacation when we go than it was when we lived there.

The best approach, IMO, is the snowbird thing -- but not very convenient if you have a job!

So just my "grass is not always greener" speech!

 

[Mouseaholic!!!]

Nope. My days of working for minimum wage ended when I got out of college.

 

[wildernessDad]

We envision things; our minds are very wonderful at imagining how things would be. But the truth may be far from our imaginations.

It might be nice as a retirement-type job.

 

[disneynutz]

Thought about quiting your job to go work as a DVC guide?

I currently work in sales (account manager) and daydream every so often of how cool it would be to move from New York to Florida and work for the mouse.

They always say do something you love and you never work a day in your life. Well I can't imagine how much better it would be than to sell and talk about disney all day long to people and get them excited to want to own a piece of it.

The only thing I'd be concerned about would be how much guides make. Anyone know, anyone every consider this, anyone ever make the jump?

I would be afraid that if I worked there and really new the truth, I wouldn't love it anymore.

Bill

 

[BWV Dreamin]

No never. I don't like mixing business with pleasure!

 

[FindTheMickeys]

I have had the thought about working for the mouse more than once. In the spring of this year, my company was down-sizing. My plan was that if I got job-eliminated then I was going to rent out my house and go work at Disney. I even went so far as to log into Disney's web site and research 'careers' (if you can call it that) with Disney. They don't make a lot, with the best paying job being the bus drivers who make a starting wage of $10.25 (and they have to get their CDL) - according to the website. Most other positions are somewhere in the $7.50-$9.00 range for starting pay.

Now, I read recently that Disney was cutting salaries for some CM's with the biggest hit being the DVC reps who work at the parks. Disney was supposedly upping their commisions and lowering their base salary, stated as dropping to $11.25 from like $13.75 (starting pay). With the cost of living being a tad bit more expensive in Orlando than in Indiana, it would definitly require a second income...

However, my plan is still to retire when I'm 60, then move to the warmer climate of Orlando and supplement my lagging 401(k) pension with money from the mouse...

 

[DebbieW]

I don't dream of working as a DVC guide, but I do plan to retire to Florida within the next year and work somewhere at Walt Disney World, assuming they'll hire me. It's been a long-term dream for me.

I spent 30 years working in a cubicle and retired from that job with a very nice monthly pension. I'm working now, in another cubicle, at a job that I promised my boss (a good friend of mine) I would do for 5 years. That ends in April 2010. I've spent the last 2 years fixing up my house so it's turn-key ready to sell. I recently finished the last of my projects here at the house, so it's a matter of getting to April (and getting through another long winter), staging the house, and hoping for a quick sell here in Columbus, Ohio. I'm not too worried about selling my house.

My biggest problem is that my husband took a job in Florida a couple of years ago. We bought a small house in the panhandle in Defuniak Springs for him to live in. I have GOT TO get rid of that house before I can make my way to Central Florida. What a nightmare I expect THAT to be!

Anyway, that's a long way to get to the point -- that being, NO MORE CUBICLE for me. I cannot wait to do something besides sit at a desk all day. I'll be happy selling balloons, selling coffee, selling merchandise, running a ride -- it doesn't matter to me.

I'll get there -- it's just a matter of time.