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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
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Drove tractor, the combine and grain truck for our farm from age 10 to about 19 (the grain truck had to wait until I had my driver's license).
babysitter
Worked in the concession booth of the local movie theatre and then the drive in theatre
self-serve gas station attendant
Secretary at City Hall and at our local school division office
Librarian for the school division
full-time Mom
coffee shop waitress
retail cashier
florist
manager of a florist department in a grocery store
sales associate for a womens clothing chain, and eventually promoted to Back Room Lead (which meant that I received the shipments and opened the boxes, organised and priced the clothes before they went on the floor and got to boss a couple college kids around)
secretary/receptionist
and now I'm a housewife
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Reason: forgot my stint in the clothing industry
-Babysitter
-Secretarial Work for my cousin's husband's computer business when I was 15yo
-Filing, copying, etc. for my then-boyfriend's dad's business in high school
-Decorating Christmas trees and unpacking freight at my mom's gift shop (before she retired)
-Governor's Page
-Lifeguard for two summers
-Baleing hay in high school - it was used as a means to get me to come in earlier on the weekends (earlier came in = less hay to bale)
-Waitress at local pizza restaurant for two years and one summer in college
-Tutor for calculus in high school, and worked as a proofreader at the writing center in college
-Camp counselor for 3 years at state arts & sciences camp
-Summer scorekeeper for local rec baseball league
-Copy Editor for college newspaper
-Bartender for friend's catering business (did some weddings and such)
-Serving pretzels and lemonade at summer concerts during college
-Spring and 2 Summer professional internships for Department of Transportation
-Program Coordinator for state's public University system
-Admissions specialist for university, now assistant director for admissions at same university
Man, until I typed it out I didn't realize how much odd stuff I've done. I was thinking to myself, "I've had like, three jobs" but all the little stuff I did for cash in high school and college really adds up!
It's not much, but from what I can remember - these are the things I've done for money -
babysitting - starting at age 8 (for a newborn boy and 7 yr. old girl!)
"cashier" at the general store my dad first worked at - I didn't have to know the prices, I just had to make them up, but then again, I was paid in candy!!
tutoring at high school
ice cream parlor worker - it was a kind of convience store/ice cream fountain thing
Nanny
Nanny for a different family
executive secretary for HR head of a detective/security agency (glorified gofer, and filer - and I got a raise for wearing shorter skirts!)
Photo developer at a down-town facility (and unlike some places, we NEVER refused ANY photos - there was a black "sleeve" we put on the process for certain phots since you could see the photos as they developed and came out of the machine from the front window looking onto the street)
Full time wife (only lasted for a year - not the marraige, the "job")
house cleaning (this was to make ends meet while DH was laid off)
deli counter girl
Full time wife (this time, it was for 14 years)
I think that's it.
After reading Jookiba's I remembered: I also delivered papers. Dsis and I had 3 routes between us, and it was quite an operation! (and I don't know if mom knows this, but Sis used to pay me for delivering her papers. Dumb me never thought - "I could make more if she'd just quit them and I did them on my own!!")
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Dog-sitter (yes I got paid-good $$ for a 9 yr old)
Paper route
Fast food (cashier, hamburger maker, fries, etc)
Student Secretarial Assistant (senior year)
Hotel front desk clerk
Full-time mom for 6 years
Full-time student for 3 years (did Bachelor's in 3 by going every summer)
RN
babysitter
corn detassler (midwesterners should know what this entails)
hostess, Mr. Steak
waitress, Mr. Steak
waitress and doughnut maker at a doughnut shop (no I never got sick of eating them)
waitress at the Belden Deli
front desk worker in a dorm
R.A. in my dorm
Senior Staff in my dorm
H.R. intern
H.R. Research Officer
Compensation Analyst
Psychology Professor, part-time
office organizer
non-paid jobs:
stay at home mom
drywalled, taped, painted
painted all the rooms in 3 houses
installed phone lines and cable lines
installed blinds, shades, drapes, shelving, wallpaper
sewed numerous costumes, and one bridesmaid dress
designed and decorated many cakes
dug numerous holes and planted a ton of trees, bushes, plants and flowers
wheelbarrel and spread 10 yds. of mulch every spring
replaced insides of 3 toilets
As a kid my family would pay the kids to wash their cars.
McD's
Candy store
2 bakerys (one my family owned)
general store (family owned)
Box office ticket seller
sold flowers on the street corner (thanks to a family member )
worked at 7-11
worked at a deli
worked as at a amusment park
short order cook
waited tables
drove a cab
parking lot atteneded
worked at 2 hotels as a desk clerck
night aduitor of a hotel
babysat for alot of kids over the years
And last but not least...junk dealer, a family thing
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hhmmm, after much thinking.....
*baby-sitter
*fast food in high school (A+W and McDonalds)
*factory...lasted 3 months...not for me...I give you all credit!
*Assistanst Animal Control Officer (this rocked! My fave...by far!)
*Independant Photographer (weddings etc)
*Nurse!
*oh and one year to raise extra holiday $$....(blushing to admit it.....) a telemarketer!
People watcher, sort of Mother's helper, at age 9, ya get what ya can.
Babysitter
Worked in a skating rink
fast food 2 summers during college
mowed grass with my older sister during summers of college (yes we advertised in paper)
camp counselor
camp swim instructor/lifeguard
delivery for florist
college yearbook
college newspaper reporter
Advertising Manager college newspaper
RA college dorm
work/study in college (Library)
sold insurance
worked for an employment agency
did a lot of non paying work for American Red Cross
RN
I guess I am a slow learner, but I have had the same employer for 19 years
Retail Cashier
Cash Office Manager
Retail Customer Service Manager
Retail Store Manager
Legal Courier
Process Server
Repo Gal
P.I.
Weight loss consultant
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Baby sitter
Summer Camp Counselor
Hardee's Drive through girl
"counter girl" or just "girl" to my boss, Giacomo, at his pizza place in Dover
Waitress
Cocktail server (for 3 days....had issues with the uniform)
Waitress
Bartender
Fax Machine Operator (that was my title at the law firm I worked at...then I was promoted to.....
Receptionist
Waitress
Nanny
Waitress
Bartender (can you tell when my college days were?)
EMT (volunteer for 3-4 years)
DTT Trainer (a form of ABA for kids with Autism)
Occupational Therapist (my longest job...going on 6 years now!!!)
Although, some of these jobs I had at the same time while in college (waitress/bartender/EMT/DTT)
Nanny( in HS over the summers- same family for 3 years- stayed with the kids at their beach house Mon- Fri)
Candy store clerk
Nurses Aide
RN (acute care)
SAHM
RN (long term care and now Case Management)
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