re: Working at Disney Parks. Anyone ever worked at one?

I would say that for young people, you get a lot of exposure to a huge company filled with opportunities, and you develop a lot of really close friends. And on your days off, you get to enjoy parks and still see your friends on duty...


My in-laws worked there when WDW opened, that's how they met. They loved it there and always toyed with just going back to work there part time for fun. A co-worker of theirs JUST RETIRED from WDW. She was our free-ticket person... dangit.

Wife's best friend worked there in college program and went to corporate for a decade before becoming a SAHM. She has nothing but great things to say about her time there and is a huge Disney fan.

One of my friends did the college program and went back to Disney a few years later in marketing... still there today doing some very cool stuff that takes him around the world to all the parks. Says working in the parks was best time of his life.

My wife has a cousin that has worked there his entire adult life, doing something so insanely cool and specific I can't say it here. His dad did it before him, and even has pictures with Roy Disney.

Two cousins were performers there and it led to careers in performance ballet, broadway shows, etc... and they are very close to the friends they made while working at WDW.