Disney or Universal

My family and myself are moving to Orlando in the winter due to my wifes new job. I am interested in working at one of the two parks! Could anyone tell me which park pays more and is better to work at and why?

Universal Pays better, but I believe the benefits at Disney are better as long as you are full time. Universal was paying (these are ride op wages) about $7 an hour and Disney was $6.50 but at Universal they let you work upwards of sometimes 50 hours a week.

If it was me, I'd go to Disney (just because thats my childhood favorite) But it just depends on what is more important. Nostalgia (Disney) or Money (Universal)

if it were me, i would wanna be a ride op on IH or DD's @ IoA.

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KoRn - Untouchables, June 11th, 2002

I got a postcard about a month ago asking me to re-establish my employment with Universal. It stated that starting wages jumped up to a whopping $6.60 per hour (from the measly $6.15 per hour). I left that place because of the very low wages. an extra 45 cents may have helped a little but I have since moved back to PA and have no intentions of going back. Too little-too late.

I think you get an extra $1 per hour for working at a spieling attraction like Jaws. You must auddition for that kind of job though.

I liked my job at IOA a lot. The company treated me pretty good with all of those breaks and fringe bennifits. I did have one major problem though, and that was that some of the guests want to do what the park tells you not to let them do. And the major bummer is that when a guest complains about it, the park takes their side EVERY TIME. The park kind of lets you take the fall even though you are just doing what they said to do in the first place. If you learn to deal with that, and you can afford to not make a whole lot of money, you should be fine.

Orlando is a very expensive place to live, even though they have no local taxes. To me it was also like a foreign country. But it was still kind of fun.

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dexter said:

I liked my job at IOA a lot. The company treated me pretty good with all of those breaks and fringe bennifits. I did have one major problem though, and that was that some of the guests want to do what the park tells you not to let them do. And the major bummer is that when a guest complains about it, the park takes their side EVERY TIME. The park kind of lets you take the fall even though you are just doing what they said to do in the first place. If you learn to deal with that, and you can afford to not make a whole lot of money, you should be fine.

Orlando is a very expensive place to live, even though they have no local taxes. To me it was also like a foreign country. But it was still kind of fun.

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Same thing at Disney as well. Maybe not as bad as you say it is at Universal, but if a guest complains about us at Disneyland, it's usually acted upon. Although I think most of the time they look at the complaint objectively before they take action, and I would think Universal is the same way.

Now, as for Orlando being expensive, it's medium in certain areas, but I'm going to be living in Kissimmee as of November 1st, and it's VERY inexpensive compared to Southern and Northern California, which is where I've lived my entire life. Of course, the wages in the area are lower, but so is everything else. (Gas, insurance, rent, etc.) It's a good trade-off.