I’m not sure what the solution is… Disney is having a hard time staffing parks at current rates, one of the reasons they agreed to the increasing pay (starting is now $18 an hour).
Who is supposed to work at Disney Parks? If you are over 20 and still working at a Disney park apparently you’re a complete loser with no motivation that doesn’t have a “real job” - ok so where are all these 18 & 19 year olds coming from? I’m guessing they are using all the CP’s they can find!
I wouldn’t call anyone a loser who works an honest job.
You just explained why I don’t think we’ll ever see a 5th park at WDW though, it’s also why I call it the dog chasing his tail, a low paying job will always be a low paying job (relative to prices) no matter how much it pays. As Disney raises pay for “low skill” jobs everyone else has to simultaneously raise rates for ”skilled” jobs to remain competitive, as a result prices go up and everyone’s buying power remains relative despite pay going up.
The world will always need dishwashers, my first job, but that doesn’t make it a career that should be able to provide for a family.
People say bootstrappers like it’s a negative but I bet most of us who believe in pulling yourself up did exactly that, I went from dishwasher to line cook to prep cook to back of house supervisor, all while in high school, while a full time student in college I worked as a server at nights and during the summers at an amusement park (Lagoon in Utah) and it’s the most fun I’ve ever had working, a job I’d have loved to keep but it paid horribly, after dropping out of college I got a job at a call center, where I self taught myself Microsoft office and became a supervisor, and eventually became an assistant operations manager, when I moved to Las Vegas (where there’s a ton of call centers) I took a “temporary” job as a barback (a food and beverage job I never thought I’d return to) while searching for a FT call center management job, I was breaking my back as a barback but it paid well so I quit looking for a call center management job, worked my way into a FT spot, and eventually became a bartender, then a FT bartender, then I got into casino beverage management, it was a pay cut and more hours but easier on the body, then I went back to bartending for the money, back to management for the ease, etc I currently work 2 bartending jobs and pick up gig work when I can, I could survive on one job but am stashing away money to retire and spend way to much on Disney and travel.
All that to say bootstrapping is a good thing, I could have stayed a dishwasher and fought for more pay but I’d never have learned the skills to be where I am today.
