Category Archives: work

So does your email mean that you’ve definitely got a place at Disney? And if you enjoyed it so much why did you leave in the first place?

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Well, originally I left full time work because I was there as part of the Disney College Program. My intention was to go seasonal, finish out my last semester of college, graduate, get married, and then feel around our options to see if I could go back full time. But when I graduated, they took away my status as a college program representative, and when they did that…they accidentally took away my seasonal status. I didn’t even know until I called to schedule a shift.

I thought about applying to go back, but I ended up getting my seamstress job, and then my tutoring job, and then I *thought* that “oh, teaching is a real job, I should just work really hard until they give me a teaching job.”

And I got it, and y’all know how well that turned out.

BUT NOW I’M GOING BACK TO DISNEY AND I’M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!

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I’m meeting with the principal in less than half an hour to discuss next year. As in whether or not I’m coming back next year. I’m going to throw up. Prayers and happy thoughts are thoroughly welcome right now.

…wait are you serious. I made more money than you at my shitty summer job at a university lab which was basically washing glassware and holding things for people. $10 per hour. How. Why. AGH.

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IT. SUCKS. SO. MUCH.

In each pay period I:

-tutor (10 hours)

-work the afterschool care program (13 hours)

-assist the music teacher (6 hours)

-teach my theater arts class (10 hours)

-work in the library (10 hours)

This comes out to 53 hours of work per pay period.

So yeah, a bit less than $5 an hour.

This does not include rehearsals, which is between 6 and 9 additional hours per week (or 12 to 18 hours per pay period). I am not paid for directing, as it is assumed to be part of my theatre arts class. Oh, and that doesn’t include the Saturday rehearsals.

If I added in the rehearsal time to include hours I actually work, I would make about $4 an hour.

Raurgh.

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oh my lord I’m proctoring SAT tests and I have to drink a ton of water because I have to read so much stuff but now I really have to pee and I don’t get another break for an hour please pray for my bladder.

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This is how I teach Hamlet.

And might I add how proud I am that I did all of this from memory? I guess it helps that I’ve studied Hamlet approximately eighty bajillion times. But I just have so much fun explaining it, because the kids are all like “dude, Shakespeare’s boring” and I’m like “HOW CAN IT BE BORING?! LOOK AT HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED!!”