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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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05-19-2005, 07:07 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
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Working Stiff
What was your first job? How old were you?
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05-19-2005, 07:13 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
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Re: Working Stiff
It's pretty disgusting the way men behave when you tell them you work at a mattress factory. NO, I did NOT test them  , sheesh, I was 14 years old. It was a factory owned by a guy whose kids I babysat and I put together catalogs to send out to showrooms. |
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05-19-2005, 07:16 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: Working Stiff
The ONE year CT lowered to working age to 15 was, of course, the year I turned 15. My parents were thrilled!  I turned 15 on June 10, 1989 on June 11, 1989 I began bagging groceries at Stop & Shop!  |
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05-19-2005, 07:38 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
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Re: Working Stiff
When I was 12, my family owned a European gift shop, so I was there a *lot* when I wasn't in school. The "business trips" to Dallas for market and to Europe weren't so bad  I also was a companion to a blind/deaf girl who lived down my street for a few summers when I was 12/13. My first "real" job (away from my parents) was when I was 16 and was at Swiss Colony (back when they had mall stores). |
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05-19-2005, 07:43 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2000
Posts: 9,619
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Re: Working Stiff
I baby sat alot when I was in high school and summers I was a "nanny" for a family and spent the summer at their beach house in Canada- great job- once the parents came home form work/golf/lunching I was free to go out and I also had weekends off- Sheila
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05-19-2005, 07:46 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Carol Stream, IL
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Re: Working Stiff
I worked at Wendy's for about 3 months and then to Long John Silvers. I was 18.
Sue
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05-19-2005, 07:47 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Southern New Jersey
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 4,013
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Re: Working Stiff
A student secretary in the Education Department of our Local State School (for mentally retarded individuals - all female- ranging from bed-ridden to almost self sufficient). I would type up the reports about the training/education that was being provided for specific individuals.
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05-19-2005, 08:05 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Northern Indiana
Posts: 615
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Re: Working Stiff
My first real job was at Wendy's when I was 15 until I was 17.
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05-19-2005, 09:03 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Working Stiff
My first job was a clerk at an Insurance Agency when I was a Senior in High School. I was in an Cooperative Office Education program that allowed us to get out of school early and go to work.
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05-19-2005, 09:16 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
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Re: Working Stiff
My first job was at Hardee's - I was 16.
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05-19-2005, 09:22 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: LITH, Illinois
Concierge Level: 1
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Re: Working Stiff
At 17 I bussed tables in a restaurant. That is where I met my hubby.
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05-20-2005, 01:53 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
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Re: Working Stiff
My first job was in a chemist / drugstore - it was an odd place, it was in two parts - one part with the prescriptions and medicine and the other part (which I worked in) sold things like deoderant, perfume, toys, hair products and toothpaste etc. I started work there at about 15 and stayed until about 20 - they liked me so much, I even came back on vacation from university. It was a lovely first job.  |
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05-20-2005, 02:05 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Mesquite, TX
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Re: Working Stiff
My 1st job was working in a maternity clothes store called "Maternity Wearhouse" ! [img]http://smileys.*************.com/cat/15/15_2_126.gif[/img]It was alot of fun !
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05-20-2005, 02:13 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 13,146
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Re: Working Stiff
I was 16 and I worked on Saturdays in a clothes shop.
Karen
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05-20-2005, 05:39 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: Working Stiff
Well, besides babysitting (I think I was around 12), I worked at the mall at Children's Outlet when I was 16, thru the first year of college  |
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