[SandrA9810]

Me and my room-mate, Kari, want to go work for Disney next year. And she's been into theatre since middle school. She doesn't do acting, she's the "lights, sounds, props, I'll fix it" kinda person, AKA techie. She's told me that it's not that easy to get into the Union that techies work under. But I was wondering if there was some kind of CP program that could get her foot in the door.

How flexible is Disney with other jobs?? She's got a full time job at the Home Depot that she likes a lot, plus we'll need something to pay the expenses of rent. We'll have to live off property since with have our own little "zoo".

[cinderbella]

Originally Posted by SandrA9810

Me and my room-mate, Kari, want to go work for Disney next year. And she's been into theatre since middle school. She doesn't do acting, she's the "lights, sounds, props, I'll fix it" kinda person, AKA techie. She's told me that it's not that easy to get into the Union that techies work under. But I was wondering if there was some kind of CP program that could get her foot in the door.

How flexible is Disney with other jobs?? She's got a full time job at the Home Depot that she likes a lot, plus we'll need something to pay the expenses of rent. We'll have to live off property since with have our own little "zoo".

I was a Theatre Design major....Disney dosn't offer a college program for tech work, although I am sure if she did get into the college program she could request in the costuming department --this is really the only area of tech work where someone could work without being specified--the best thing for her to do is to go to a theatre hiring conference called SETC which is held every March around the southeast...Disney does a lot of their hiring there...BUT it is very selective, unless she majored in Theatre Design and she is the BEST in her feild, it is very very very very hard to get your foot in the door at Disney...they have thousands of applicants and only a few jobs to go around...another route to take is to go to a theatre hiring conference such as SETC (there are others in different regions of the country) and get a job with other theatre companies and work up to Disney...
I was once a Theatre Design major with a dream of working for disney--but in reality they pay about 7 dollars an hour, even for full time, and it is very hard to live off of that in central flordia..

[SandrA9810]

Try living off of 7 bucks an hour in south florida... everything is more expensive down here. Even gas is about 10-15 cents higher than it is up there. When we were there, the front page of the sentinal talked about the housing boom that market price is up to $200,000. Down here it's already in the 400's and higher.
I don't know if she's the best of the best, but her high school teacher asked her to come help her out after she went off to college. Her original idea for after college would be a high school drama teacher. She went to the University of Miami for about 3 years before she dropped out because it was too expensive out of pocket. She's gonna get her AA in theatre hopfully after this semester from community college, and then we'll head to UCF so she can get a BA in theatre, and she's hoping to double in History like she originally was going to.
We're both hoping to get a job at Disney, part-time. We definatly need full-time jobs on the outside for necessities. But of course she's the perfect student/worker/and everything else. So she can do whatever she wants. Even getting a third part-time job when she isn't even trying, after having a full-time and a part-time, and wanting to go back to school in the fall.