SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO

Interesting conundrum-im a previous participant who has applied again, and hopefully ill get positive news-however after having been without a job for near on a year, i found a reasonably decent secure job in April, and part of me is thinking that even IF i got the job, and(as i plan) didnt want to go until at earliest, summer next year, would it be sensible in this day and age to quite a job that people would love to take(not that its a special job, but a job is a job nowadays), just to go away for one year, then come back and face the same problem?

Some might say why bother applying then, but the way i see it, its always worth a try, and even if i didnt take the job, whats the harm in applying?

Any thoughts

 

Personally I would see how it goes. If you get the interviews then great, see how you feel about it then. Do you enjoy the job you have now? Will you be able to progress within the company? Those are factors I would look at. If the advantages to building a better future are there then I would stick.

However its Walt Disney World a place I can only asume is an amazing place to work. But if you have done it, it may give another person an option to enjoy it who hasn't.

I have a similar dilemma as if I get this internship I want & Disney I'd have to make the choice. I definitely would go for the latter. But its really upto you. Hopefully the job market will pick back up in next two years & Disney experience can be invaluable to your cv. bet I've just muddled you up some more.

Hope I was some help lol x

 

no, very helpful thanks lol

in reality i was thinking precisely what you said-like i say, ive worked there before, so if i decide not to go its not the end of the world-but then again, i liked it so much that if i could get more than a year contract id drop the job i have like a hot stone(which i cant, but thats not the point)-the job i have is fairly dull, but it is a job which is more than a lot of people have at the moment and the money isnt too bad, and it is in a major company with prospects for advancement-my concern is simply dropping the job i spent so long finding, just for one year(no matter how great that year will inevitably be)

 

Hey I have a similar dilemma aswell. I'm applying for a two year internship which sounds fabulous and is in the career I want to go into. The applications close around the same time as they're going to start looking at our Disney ones. So I'm going to apply incase I don't even get a phone interview. But if I do, then I'm going to be going through the applications for both of them, and since the applications for Disney take soooo much longer than anything else if I'm still in the running for Disney I could end up turning down this job. Which is the least sensible thing to do ever, but to be honest I'd prefer Disney!

I think all we can do is wait and see, and don't stress about any decisions until they actually have to be made!

 

I am in the exact same boat - except I am absolutely miserable in my job right now. I took it because it was a job. Just that. It was better than nothing. But at the end of the day I realized that I am still young and I have to do what is best for me and my sanity and what makes me happy. So i've applied for the CRP for 2011 and will quit if I am offered the position. I know that when I return I will be a little bit out of luck for a job but I am sure that the experience will make it worth it.

Im sure that this doesn't help your decision too much my advice is go for Disney if that is what you truly want to do. These opportunities don't come along everyday and there will come a point where because of family commitments, marriage, etc you wont be able to pursue this. Do it while you can. It will always work itself out in the end..."like a bolt out of the blue fate steps in and sees you through..."

 

wait and see what happens with the crp application and then worry about it

granted, the thought of coming home and job hunting after another year at disney is not very appealing but a lot can happen in a year, you may want to go overseas again after florida or find a new job before your year is over etc

hang on in there and just see what happens

 

I have similar situation - the job I am in is good money and fairly stable - if I do disney again they wont give me a 2nd career break so I will come back to no job but I am still leaning towards disney if I get through I will take Disney. I am young(ish) no ties and will have no debst when I go - who knows I might even save some money when I am out there but if not I will come back and apply to anywhere and everywhere until I get something to pay the bills and then hunt for a career type job when I can

 

well lucky me, yummy jobs made my mind up for me and said i havnt got through................i suppose i should look on the bright side, easier choice isnt it?

 

Seems like everyone who has done the CRP before has re-applied after hearing that you can do it again yet everyone who has re-applied, seems to have been rejected from the start.

i want to do the program again but the way it's going, may not be an option for a couple of years.

 

if only that were true-im the only person out of the people i know who did the programme before, who didnt get through-turns out working there for a summer, then for a year, then working for the disney store, therefore not requiring as much training and consequently costing disney less time, and ultimately getting better work from their cast members, isnt enough for yoummy jobs

 

not so im afraid, theres a few of us who have got phone interviews who have already done the program....

i honestly think its down to luck in the end, i think they must just judge the applications alongside say 10 or 15 others and pick a handfull of ones they deem to be "the best" at that time...... i cant understand any other reason why they have been rejecting previous cast members, makes no sense at all.......

still gutted for you mate......

 

Ah thats a shame, but come new year and when the January applications have opened, you may feel different & 100% want to go, so you can re-apply then, it will come around soon enough.

 

actually that's not true I asked at ny interview abou reapplying as I am pretty sure I messed it up. Nick said you have to skip a application period between applying so if you miss out this time round you can't reapply next time you have to wait til the time after which in reality is like another year

 

oh wow, what a lot of hassle. Yummy told me i cant re-apply till i've been home for 6 months.

I cant think what Yummy's process is

 

yeah in the info the gave me when i asked about doing the CRP again it does say that you have to have been finished for at least 6 months before you reapply and that you cant go over again until at least 12 months have past, they should really update the FAQs and add that in i think....

 

yummy jobs replied to my email last night and said you cant reapply if you have been rejected until next summer-which is just not going to happen, so that would appear to be my involvement with disney at an official end, pretty much forever.

 

You could just make another account with yummyjobs cant you? Like make a new email address and edit your CV slightly. Theres a vlog of a girl on youtube who got declined at first but she applied again within the same week with a new email address and a updated cv and got accepted.

 

at some stage or another yummy jobs will figure out who you are - especially if youve done a program before, as they have your passport number and social security number etc and you cant change those, same with your home address (unless you have moved) and you have to put down your name as it appears in your passport and your DOB....... they arnt stupid!

 

yeah... i didnt think you could get away with it but the girl on youtube did and aparently she got on the program lol must of just been pretty lucky

 

hmmmm i wouldnt believe everything you see on you tube, she would have to have pretty much totally made up a fake CV and everything tho, which means out and out lying at every stage of the application and interview process..... even if it was true what does that say about her?! Its one thing to maybe omit something but to basically create a fake version of yourself is pretty shady in my opinion...... annnyway, still doesnt take away from the fact that there doesnt seem to be any rhyme or reason to the decisions that have been made thus far,i just feel bad that peeps i know are awesome didnt get enough of a shot this time, boooo.