Coasterbuzzer Jobs

DLDude, well as soon as you hit 16 you'll get to do rides. Just a few more years. Either way working in the park should still be a fun experience for you, and I hope you have fun.

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Flume & Hydroblaster Crew for 2002!

I make seats for honda's all day long, but if given the choice I would wanna be Dick Kinzel ;)

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The Beast and Night, They go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly

i am an umpire for little league games. I get paid 15 dollars a game, it is pretty good. Next year i might get a job at sfwo***

I am currently working at Super Target in Fishers Indiana as a manager.(northeast of Indianapolis). I am going to be going to be working at SFGaM over this summer as a manager and living at my aunt house.

So the answer is yes, i would definently give up my job at Super Target for one at Six Flags.

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You are the passengers on a most uncommon elevator, about to ascend into your very own episode of the Twilight Zone........................One stormy night long ago five people stepped through the doors of an elevator and into a nightmare, that door is op

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MillenniumForceX said:

As the theme park season picks up full speed, many of us seek employment at our favorite parks. This topic is simple : Where do you work now, and if you could switch jobs, which theme park would you want to work at?

Heck, I work at Chuck E. Cheese...but I'd really like to work at Carowinds.

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"Enjoy your record-breaking ride on Millennium Force"

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Oh my gosh, are you serious, I work at Chuck E. Cheese too. (At least I used to!). Now I am a freshmen in college and I work just at Best Buy. However, I was hired by Disney World on a College Internship, but as luck would have it, I had to turn them down. (And out of the 60 people that applied from my school, only 8 got hired!) But oh well. And actually, at my basic training session at Best Buy (exactly one year ago this month), we were schedualing times for department training, and my manager asked one guy, "is this time ok" and he said "no, i have to build a rollercoaster!" It turns out that his fathers company was constructing Batwing!

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So...you can't handle a rollercoaster huh? Well...you ARE the Weakest Link! Goodbye!
Number 1 Batwing Fan!

I work at Best Buy...and wouldn't work at PKI for the world with the long hours, crappy pay and far drive that costs me some good cash just to get there. Ill stick it out here ;)

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No Limits is every enthusiasts best friend! :)

I work at Mcdonalds and make 6.25/hour which is a dollar more than minimum wage here in Virginia which isnt too bad, since I am only 16. I would love to work at Kings Dominion

I work for SBC Pacific Telesis Group in L.A. in their legal department. I work for an attorney and three workers' compensation hearing representatives. When I retire, I would like to work at either SFMM or KBF as a ride op.

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I work as a Purchasing Agent for a State Correctional Facility in NY. Contracts & vendors, vendors & contracts. I pretty much get paid to be on the phone all day and spend the State's $$. Not a bad gig. I buy everything that comes into the facility, except vehicles, right down to the most important commodity of all...toilet paper!! No small feat for one person in a facility of 1500 inmates and 900 staff. It's hard to keep everyone happy. Especially when our "resident's" needs always come first.

I'd give it up in a heartbeat to work at BGW. My goal is actually to move to the area in three years, and try my best to get a job in the park, if not for AB. It probably won't be as much money, but the hubby makes enough to keep me up.

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Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead.

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I WAS working at a bakery until my boss secretly fired me. I was fencing and asked if I could work one day a week until the season was over (approximatly 4 weeks way) Around the lask few weeks of fencing, the tornaments came around. I was in all the tornaments so I couldn't work saturdays which was the days that kept asking me to come in. After the last tornament, my boss called me and said he wants to talk to me. He said I was being taken off the scheduale for a short time to train people for his new store. I was ok with it but it wasn't until school the next week that one of my fellow emeployees told me I was fired! I asked to speek with my boss about 9,000,000 times (more like 5) but I got "he's not here right now" every time. I think he was to scaried to tell my I was fired cause I'm so nice. I need to be more aggresive. Who cares i'm happy right no, I would be at work.

Now i'm looking for a job at SFGADV of course. Who's not?!?

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RESIDENT EVIL: BIOHAZARD! Scaring up some HELL only on the NINTENDO GAMECUBE!!!!!

Currently, I`m employed by Coney Island (Cincinnati) as a ride operator. I only get paid $5.25 an hour, not including a bonus for staying the entire season. I would much rather work at Paramount`s Kings Island, but Coney is a ten minute drive compared to a thirty minute drive for PKI.

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I`ve ridden Son of Beast 67 times!

I am a Biomedical Equipment Technician for an Indianapolis Healthcare network. My responsibility is the Preventative Maintenance Coordinator. I am in charge of insuring that all equipment is inspected and performance tested, and minor repairs are completed and major repairs started before they cause a problem, according to schedule. My team of technicians is responsible for three hospitals and 5 surgery centers. We track over 9000 items from Aspirators to Xeon Lasers. Our Job is much like the crews swarming over your favorite coaster every night. While the coaster mechanic insures you have a safe ride, the equipment we check may save a life. Both jobs are very important responsibilities, and if I could choose a different job it would be the coaster mechanics. If we both do our job properly there will be less need for the repair techs to have to fix it while in use, or worse.

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Whats life if you never get to the Po!nt?

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I don't work anywhere at the moment, but hopefully I'll start at PKI this summer, but I would really love to work at DCA, Disney Studios, MK, IOA, one of the Busch parks, or SFGAm. Those are the real parks that I can't see myself ever getting tired of. At one of those parks or PKI I would do whatever I could to get up to design, planning, marketing, etc. or higher. I would work anywhere except a CF park because evidently my assistance isn't needed and I could probably help out another park a lot more. Learn them a thing or two I would. ;)

I am working at SFEG as a ride op, but haven't been able to work for the last two weeks. This wewkend will be the first 'real' weekend i will be working, so Im a little scared. Anyway, right now there is nothing I would rather be doing. I firgured that although the pay isn't great, at least I get to spend the day in the place I love to be at.

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"Attention all Time Travel Commitee Members; the reasearch and development meeting will take place last friday at O-Three-Hundred hours. Do not be late."

I'm an Union Ironworker. Unfortunately I never got to erect a steel coaster yet but guys I worked with built several. They include, Great Bear, Wild Mouse, sooperdooperlooper, Trailblazer, Sidewinder, the Kissing Tower, Tidal Force, the trough for the Canyon River Rapids and I believe the giant two armed wheel all at Hersheypark. I probably would have worked on the Roller Soaker but it went scab (nonunion). Other coasters I know our guys built are, Talon, Steel Force, Millennium Force, Hypersonic, and the High Roller on top of the Stratosphere in Vegas. I'm sure there are quite a few more not to mention flat rides. One of the perks of building them is being some of the test riders. Although most of the guys I work with will walk a beam 8 inches wide 100 feet in the air but not get on a coaster! Go Figure!

If I worked at a park I'd like to be on the ride maintance crew (preferably on the wood coaster crew).

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Knoebels visits in 2002. 2

Right now I'm a Student at Ohio University and am kind of employed with the Geology dept. I assist the profs with outdoor work. (collecting data, etc.) I don't do that very often and I don't get paid! But hopefully this summer I'll find some work around here to pay off my summer classes expenses! AHH!

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"Your love is like a roller coasta' baby baby..."
If love is like a rollercoaster, doesn't that mean you should be happy ALL of the time? ;)

Shawn Bailes
110 Drumline
http://www.ohiou.edu/marching110/drumline

Continuing with my last post (my edit thing is acting carzy),I would however, love to work at SFA, but, if all goes well, I will get hired for the internship as a ride operator for Disney again for Spring 2002.

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So...you can't handle a rollercoaster huh? Well...you ARE the Weakest Link! Goodbye!
Number 1 Batwing Fan!

I run a Technical Support Center for a Major Printer Developing company, I also put my time in up at SFgadv. I would never want to go back to that world. We would work all day and be treated poorly by the nasty guests. I also would not want to deal with cleaning up anymore vomit. I do miss the rides on days off, but I love to be in my office all day with t1 internet access so I can follow up on what is really going on across the country...

I'm an Internet programmer (duh), and my day job is pretty bland as far as the stuff I'm involved with (I'd tell you what, but I'm under NDA's and such).

I'd love to be the firm designing some park's sites, especially Cedar Point, but knowing the folks that do it, I can assure you that will never happen.

The big goal for me is still to work for me. I'll never make a living off of CoasterBuzz, that's for sure, but we'll see what I can do in some other areas.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

I'm a research assistant in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at Ohio State University. Some of my current projects include restoration of native plants to disturbed urban forest fragments, construction and evaluation of wetland treatment systems to handle contaminated agricultural runoff, investigation into the use of midwestern prairie species as a landscape alternative to large lawns, and evaluation of organic food producing landscapes as an alternative to purely ornamental landscapes.

The "assistant" part means that I do all the work but get none of the credit. :)

As far as amusement parks go I'm currently involved in the total rebuild of the SBNO Grovemont Mainline Funpark on the shores of beautiful Lake Bertrand. We'll be returning the park to it's original name (Ripple Rock Amusement Park) and restoring the park's signature buildings as well as recontructing some structures that have been lost. The ride collection will be expanded to include many old classics. We're quite proud of our latest acquisition - a Traver Circle Swing!

Oh, one last detail - the park is only 1/87 full size :)

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