Oh, and he retired as an officer. Meaning, he housing allowance for his last two posts paid enough for him to buy two decent houses in fairly expensive areas - Miami and NYC (thanks COLA, and obviously with mortgages), from which he has since been collecting rental income from for years.
We weren't all that financially happy 40 years ago, either. My husband was making less at the same point in their careers than the greatest generation with more education and working longer hours. And mortgage rates were at 15%; we were able to assume a 10% mortgage and finance the remainder at 18% - a good deal at the time. Being able to assume a lower rate mortgage was a selling point at that time - and I suspect it will be the same pretty soon - if not already.
Hoping by the time we're up there, we will also have "good old days", since right now we're having "mostly content days"
What cast member feedback are you talking about?
I've talked with cast while in the parks . A few CMs have advised their mgrs have asked them feedback onging.
surveys?
You asked them about the dress code changes? What did they say?
Damn.(GASP) AGAIN!
Oh, dear... this country has gone to heck in a hand basket. I think I will start a petition to change the name Hoover Damn (sorry, I had to write it) to Hoover Gosh-darn it!
I was just informed that one is dam. In the words of Roseanne Roseannadanna.... "Never mind"
If you think that is scary now wait until you are at least half way into your retirement and you get kicked in the teeth like 2022 did. When I started out almost no companies had pension plans and there was no 401's to be found. I remember so clearly having a guy come in and speak to management about the NEW retirement plans that people could directly contribute to and that if they started at age 25 and put $20 per week into it (that was before matching funs were even brought up) that by retirement you would have a million dollars in your account. Bear in mind that interest rates for almost any collateral type loan was around 14%. It was also just before Credit Cards were starting to be the thing.
Maybe I should have stayed in the military. At the time it didn't seem like a good idea. If I even thought that I might not ever have to go to a war zone again I might have, but the country seems to like to utilize the military quite often. Plus I hate following orders that had the threat of jail time existed for not following them. I was never good at taking orders, I was to sarcastic and quick to respond for it to ever have worked out pleasantly.
Or, go the other way. Fully nude cast members.
One CM said he did not seem to faze him that both sexes could use same costume shirt and pants.
Better slap on that Hawaiian Tropic all over that exposed skin. That FL sun is brutal.
Oh okay. I never thought the same costume shirt and pants would be an issue because that’s the way of uniforms everywhere. People here are talking about seeing things at WDW that are not the norm elsewhere; that seems to be causing some controversy
