Who wants to work for Disney when their kids are grown?

[alc571]

Also the International Program is really designed for young people not retirees. I am an alumni of the program and was 20 when I did it. We thought people who were pushing 30 were old!! I would say early 30s is about the oldest I ever encountered. Some as young as 18. The accomodations are shared and segregated sex so you could not live with your spouse. I do remember seeing one or 2 older people on the US college program who were "mature students" but not on the IP.

I'm sorry, but who are you to say what age is appropriate or not. There's no age restriction from what I understand, and other alumni I've dealt with have said plenary of countries have cultural reps into their 40's.

I totally plan on doing this. I'm retiring in 5 years, and moving to FL. I plan on applying to the Cultural Rep program for the first year of my retirement. I'll only be 41. I realize that's not "20 something" but I'm pretty sure Disney doesn't care and neither do I. Age is just a number...

 

[EastYorkDisneyFan]

I have no idea the legalities of working in FLA but I did meet a CM on Main Street that had retired to FLA. She spoke to me when she noticed the Canadian Flag pin I was wearing.

She liked speaking to someone from Toronto and the funny part was where she lived was about six blocks from my house.

That reminds me of one time when I was waiting for Oh Canada and I got to talking to two of the CM's at the front entrance, one of them was from Toronto and the other was from somewhere in Nova Scotia. The one from Nova Scotia got very confused by some of the things we brought up like Sam the Record Man for example as they had never been to Toronto.

 

[tinkerbell181]

Like others have mentioned you need a working VISA to be employed in the US you can't just show up at casting and apply for the job without papers.

Also the International Program is really designed for young people not retirees. I am an alumni of the program and was 20 when I did it. We thought people who were pushing 30 were old!!

I would say early 30s is about the oldest I ever encountered. Some as young as 18. The accomodations are shared and segregated sex so you could not live with your spouse.

I do remember seeing one or 2 older people on the US college program who were "mature students" but not on the IP.

I agree. I did the program mid 90's and it was like a party college dorm atmosphere at Vista Way. Living in such tight quarters it surrounded you. I'm almost 40 and I can't imagine surviving it now!
Or perhaps it has drastically changed since then?

 

[dsneygirl]

I'm sorry, but who are you to say what age is appropriate or not. There's no age restriction from what I understand, and other alumni I've dealt with have said plenary of countries have cultural reps into their 40's.

I totally plan on doing this. I'm retiring in 5 years, and moving to FL. I plan on applying to the Cultural Rep program for the first year of my retirement. I'll only be 41. I realize that's not "20 something" but I'm pretty sure Disney doesn't care and neither do I. Age is just a number...

I'm basing it on my experience. The oldest person I encountered was probably 30. That is what I saw. Never met one but they may exist there were just none in the Canada pavilion that I met.

It's very much a college, party atmosphere working for minimum wage. Most were students, recent grads etc so making $6 an hour covered your rent, food and beer.


ETA: You may have seen older people working in the various countries but they are not on the Cultural Program. Each pavilion has various "permanent" CMs to help with the constant turnover of Reps. They are usually people who either a) have permanent residency in the US or b) are dual citizens and when they applied to WDW, they were assigned to a pavilion since WDW wants to keep it as authentic of an experience as possible. So when I worked there we had a woman who had met and married her DH on the program. He was American. She was probably late 20s/early 30s. She didn't live in the housing or be a part of any of the programs activities. Another woman had moved down to Florida with her hubby years early and had dual citizenship. She worked as a server in Le Cellier for years.

Same situation in many countries (Germany, UK etc)