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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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12-12-2003, 11:47 PM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sasquatch Territory, Pacific Northwest
Concierge Level: 8
Posts: 17,166
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What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
After reading Tina's post about her day at the airport, it got me to wondering just what it is we all do for a living. What is your job?
I am a medical secretary in the Imaging (X-ray, etc.)Department of a local Hospital. I have done this job for 12 years. Talk about variety...you never know what you will see in a hospital!
So, who's next?
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12-13-2003, 01:04 AM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 21,228
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
<font color="blue">Right now I'm a puppet on a string or well thats how I feel any how. I am a sale Clerk, I work for <font color="red">K-Mart</font> Most of the time I sell eletronics or Sporting Goods and DIY (Do it yourself stuff) Lately I've been stuck on register, or Greeter. Greeter isn't bad you get piad to stand around and talk. </font>
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12-13-2003, 02:53 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager PassPorter Guide Author
Community Rank: Legend VIP
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
I work as a Press and Media Manager at a local Council, dealing with enquiries from the press, writing press releases etc - it's a very varied job and you never know what's coming next. I've been there about 18 months now.
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12-13-2003, 03:24 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Louisiana/Mississippi
Posts: 2,300
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
I work as a Psych Tech, with this job you cannot get board.
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12-13-2003, 07:21 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
I'm a substitute teacher by choice. I love working with kids, and am certified to work with special needs kids, so I spend a lot of my time subbing in that venue. I love the variety - I do all my subbing at our local K-8, so I get to work with lots of different age groups. I keep getting offered full time work, but as a full time mom, I would hate to tie myself down. I like the freedom of saying, "No, I'm not available."
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12-13-2003, 07:42 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: The Jersey Shore
Posts: 7,249
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
For the last 12 years I have worked for a husband/wife team that own 4 businesses. We are a legal courier service, private detective agency, limousine service and repossession business. I do a a little bit of everything. I hire/fire drivers, payroll and accounting. When I first started there I occasionally went out on surveillance (very boring), made deliveries and did some town car jobs.
Now I stay in the office and it is less stressful, except when I get a call from an irate person because we repo'd their car the night before !
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12-13-2003, 08:21 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
I have been a Stay at Home Dad since December 1992. Three years ago I started working school hours and days in my wifes insurance agency as an agent. I'm home when my kids get home and get all snow days and school vacations off. At the office I sell personal lines of insurance (home, auto, life) and banking products (savings, checking, loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, money market) Before going to work for my wife part time, I was a volunteer Emergency Medical ambulance worker. Worked one 12 hour overnight shift per week and every 6th weekend for NO pay. It got me out of the house.
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12-13-2003, 10:05 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Durham,NC
Posts: 2,615
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
I work in a pathology lab as a Histologist. I deal with organs/tissues of the body looking for microscopic signs of abnormalities/disease.
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12-13-2003, 10:50 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Drexel Hill, PA USA
Posts: 739
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
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12-13-2003, 11:04 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
Oh my gosh, I wear so many hats at work and have so many titles. I guess if you've ever been to an airport, I do most of the jobs that you see the airline personnel do. Since we're a small airport, we do them all. I check the passengers in for the flight, load the luggage from the belt onto the baggage cart to bring out to the plane. I board the passengers at the gate. I load the bags off of/onto the plane. I'm the one standing out there with those cute orange wands marhsalling the plane into and out of the gate. I also deice the plane in the winter. Sometimes I drive the deice truck, sometimes I'm the one in the bucket spraying the plane. If we have a passenger who can't go up/down stairs, we put them in a special chair and carry them up the stairs and then transfer them to the seat. I also drop the arriving bags onto the baggage belt. And I get yelled at a lot! LOL. Oh, ya, I also spend 45 min. each day checking passenger boarding passes/ID's before they enter the sterile area. You never know what's gonna happen, especially living up here in the snowbelt.
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12-13-2003, 11:04 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Richardson, TX
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 3,357
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
I am vice president/manager for a real estate company.
I handle company training.
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12-13-2003, 11:07 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 5,094
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
<font color="green"> I am a stay at home mommy and domestic goddess Prior to that, I was in the dog eat dog corporate world and miserable - I've never looked back since the day I left. </font>
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12-13-2003, 11:18 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Long Island, NY
Posts: 1,959
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
I have worked both full and part time at Gateway Playhouse since 1994. I took a management position when I was finishing up my bachelors degree. It was ideal since it was seasonal (May-Sept) and evenings. When I took a "real" job with the county as a case worker I kept working for Gateway since I love the theater so much.
I resigned from my "real" job when I had Danny 3 years ago but continued to work for Gateway still in a part-time mananger position.
Last month I was offered a full-time position in administration. Since Danny is school 2 days a week and I can make my own hours (bringing him with me sometimes!) I accepted. I started on Wednesday. So far so good.
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12-13-2003, 11:18 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Orlando, Fl
Posts: 5,517
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
I am a "billing specialist" or so says my hospital ID. Actually, I work in a doctor's office as the person who handles all the insurance and accounting aspects of the practice. I can set my own hours, have my own office, and I get to bring Alex to work with me. One of the great benefits of the job is being a boss to my mother! It's payback time! LOL
Kelly
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12-13-2003, 12:15 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: York, PA , USA
Posts: 2,022
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Re: What Exactly Do You Do For A Living?
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<font color="green"> I am a stay at home mommy and domestic goddess </font>
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Before staying home, I was a computer programmer for Andersen Consulting (no, not THAT Andersen - they do accounting!) at DuPont.
It was a great job, and if I have to work, I would work there again in a heartbeat - but I LOVE staying with the kids! I wouldn't trade it for anything, even that missing paycheck...
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