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["1241.6"]I Really, Really, Really Like This Image - YouTube | i really really really like this imageIf you adulation The Mouse, animate at one of the bewitched Disney parks is absolutely a dream job. But if you've anytime ACTUALLY formed there, you apperceive it can be added like a nightmare. Whether you adulation it or abhorrence it, animate at a Disney esplanade is a big account — both to the (not so) admirable apple of Disney, and to the affection of animal nature.
We asked one woman (we'll alarm her Natalia, because she adopted anonymity) who formed for six years at Walt Disney Apple in Orlando to acquaint us in her own words what it was like, and aggregate she abstruse from cutting those big apparel that, yes, are really, absolutely hot.
In my six years animate as a Walt Disney Apple "cast member" (that's what they alleged us), I did aggregate from animate allure lines, to demography pictures of esplanade guests with costumed characters, to actuality an absolute costumed appearance (more on that one in a minute). And there was a lot of being I abstruse there, but I anticipate aloft all abroad it was this:
When you go to assignment at Disney, your best important job is to accumulate the apparition of Disney alive. There were consistently seven or eight of us walking about the esplanade at one time in Mickey Mouse costumes, but aback bodies would ask, "How abounding Mickeys are there here?", the acknowledgment was always, "One." And for whatever time those guests are in the park, they absolutely accept it. It's like a daylong abeyance of disbelief.
And what were all the costumed characters that I played, you ask? Well, at Disney, it is banned for casting associates to say they "played" assertive characters, because the characters are "real." Casting associates can, however, acquaint addition they "hung out with" characters. So, to acknowledgment your question, some of the added accepted characters I "hung out with" included: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Lilo, and Stitch.
When you get hired, you accept to go through what we alleged a "Disney conduct course," breadth you're apparent amaranthine films about the history of Disney, the parks, and the activity the chat "Disney" evokes in people. Typically if you've active up to assignment there, you already accept an affecting adapter to Disney, and the conduct advance pulls adamantine at those heartstrings.
Like a Disney Princess, you're encouraged to dream your way to convalescent your situation. But you appealing abundant assurance your activity away, accordant to assignment whenever and about continued Disney wants — and you're blessed about it. Like somehow accepting to assignment 80 hours a anniversary in a 120-degree apparel for $6.90 an hour is the greatest affair you could possibly be accomplishing for humanity.
["500.52"]Naked Banana | Know Your Meme | i really really really like this imageSome of the accepted characters I "hung out with" included Lilo and Stitch. Theme Esplanade Tourist/Flickr
But some bodies get sucked into it for life. There are the ones who were built-in and aloft with the sole activity ambition of animate for the Mouse. Again there are those who appear to Disney as a Academy Program intern, or as a melancholia employee, and again appear to the ability that they'd rather get chargeless esplanade acceptance for the blow of their lives than abide advancing their education.
Last are those who get captivated up in the wishes, hopes, dreams, and "making bodies happy" mindset, and eventually they acquisition themselves accepting invested so abundant time at Disney, that at some point, they no best accept the admiration to leave. Why do they get "so into it"? My assumption is Pixie Dust.
When you accomplish $8 an hour, 40 hours on the alarm isn't gonna pay your bills. So we formed 10- to 18-hour accouterment in adjustment to accomplish overtime. And if you formed a about-face of added than 20 hours, you got bifold time. So bodies would absolutely COMPETE to see who could assignment added 20-hour shifts.
The majority of bodies I knew there were workaholics and would assurance up for all the OT they could get. They'd assignment 80-hour weeks and adulation it. And as a full-time casting affiliate you were accepted to assignment overtime, any shift, 24/7/365. We absolutely looked advanced to animate those amaranthine shifts. Sure, we admired the action of authoritative $16 an hour, but best of all we aloof capital to be allotment of the abracadabra for best — and that trade-your-life-away charge was apparently why Disney didn't apperception advantageous out the overtime.
The affair they did apperception was giving bodies canicule off for anything. And I beggarly ANYTHING. I knew a woman who alerted Disney to her bells nine months afore it happened, and they gave her one day off. And it wasn't alike her bells date. They told her you can either get affiliated and quit, or assignment about our schedule.
You charge consistently be assuming the abracadabra of Disney and accustomed on Walt's legacy, no amount what goes on in, what's larboard of your claimed life. It absolutely takes a appropriate brand to assignment there.
["485"]I Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Like This Image. by ... | i really really really like this imageWhen you assignment as adamantine as bodies do at Disney, you comedy hard, too. So partying is huge and casting associates accept gotten affectionate of a acceptability for angry aback they're not on the clock. For claimed religious reasons, I backward abroad from best of it, but because our amusing amphitheater was so small, anybody basically concluded up hooking up with anybody else. It was the best incestuous abode I've anytime been a allotment of.
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A lot of bodies lived in the aforementioned accommodation complexes too — abnormally the academy kids — so aback we weren't on the clock, activity for us wasn't clashing the freshmen dorms. Because we had so little time (sometimes as little as six to eight hours) amid shifts, it wasn't aberrant for bodies to affair appropriate up until assignment started.
We had one guy who played Grumpy the Cat from Pinocchio — a appearance who's declared to be a little clumsy and "off" — who came in one day afterwards a loooong night. Still activity the night before, he put on his apparel and got a achievement appraisement of AWESOME because he was so spot-on with the character. Anybody kept quiet, but we were all awful entertained.
The average Americans accept is that they're the best-behaved bodies in the park, and that it's the apprenticed foreigners who accomplish aggregate difficult. It's the EXACT opposite. Americans had this faculty of entitlement, and anticipation aloof because they'd spent bags of dollars to accompany their ancestors to Disney World, aggregate had to run smoothly.
If there was lightning in the breadth and we had to shut bottomward an attraction, they'd booty it out on us like we'd agilely acquired the abeyance — like we enjoyed animate in electrical storms. I get it, you alone your accomplished accumulation to go on Splash Mountain and now this brainless Florida acclimate is befitting you from accomplishing your Disney dreams. But you can't accusation the esplanade for that.
On the added hand, best adopted guests aloof seemed beholden to be there, no amount what. For example, at Tokyo Disney you're not accustomed to booty pictures with the characters, so Japanese visitors anticipation it was the greatest affair in the apple to get a account with ANYONE, alike if was aloof Chip (or Dale. Still can't acquaint them apart.). They'd alike accompany ability for us, like Japanese blimp animals. Europeans had the best-behaved accouchement I'd anytime seen, so affable and so gracious. American kids aloof screamed about absent to go aback to the pond pool.
["659.6"]i really, really, really like this image - #131418377 added by ... | i really really really like this image"Face characters" got paid $3 added than bodies who had to abrasion bristling suits. Mark Ashman/ Disney via Getty Images
Face characters, as they were called, like Belle or Prince Charming or anyone who doesn't accept to abrasion a thermal death-suit, get paid $3 an hour MORE than the "furries." (Save your amulet jokes, that's what they alarm characters whose active are covered and can't speak.)
But alike admitting the face characters still accomplish alone $11 an hour, they acted like they were Britney freaking Spears. Best of them were prima donnas, and we all hated them. But we additionally secretly capital to be them. It was a angry rivalry, so abundant so that all of us forgot we were almost authoritative minimum allowance either way.
When you eat, sleep, and breathe in the aforementioned abode 24/7/365, you either become a anchoress and adumbrate in a bend abroad from the blow of the casting associates in your area, or you band with them on a claimed level. They become your family.
I fabricated a brace of absolutely abutting accompany at anniversary administration I formed in, and I abide to accumulate in blow with today. I've been a bridesmaid at the bells of a brace who met one addition while animate on the aperture aggregation of Epcot's Soarin' attraction.
And there was one breadth administrator in accurate who absolutely advised casting associates as humans, and she was an important coach to me. She helped me through a absolutely boxy breakup, and would go active with me as I planned my post-Disney career.
When I go aback to appointment Disney Apple I accomplish a point to go about the esplanade and see all the accompany I acclimated to assignment with. And because of times like that — admitting the continued hours and life-consuming agenda — I sometimes still ambition I was aback animate there. Aloof maybe not on the 20-hour shifts.
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