Disney Kids Club job. 70hrs a week. No days off.

Advert is pay from £1872 a month.
https://talents.studysmarter.co.uk/companies/disney-cruise-line/youth-staff-10206853/

Can you tell us how much the weekly pay actually is ?

As I think it may be a lot less than some people think / believe.

TUI / Marella cruises pay £300 per week for kids club staff.

They prefer level 3 childcare, with 1st aid etc. however as the long term staff are all Level 3 ( or above ) they are less ' choosey ' for high season staff.

If she’s wanting to do drama therapy masters then it sounds like working with and entertaining a wide range of children with various needs and disabilities would be good work experience.
If she’s got a degree she’s at least 21 so I’d leave decision up to her. I’m sure she’ll be able to find lots of people who have previously done re to find out details to see if it’s for her.

Luxury yachts is a whole other world, if you get a good boss and crew then you are made! I made great contacts doing that job. Had people pay to fly me all over the world to bring back their yacht etc, made friends with a lot of very rich people who would let me stay in their villa in Italy, house in cape cod or cabin in Colorado for nothing! Those were the days!!it really is amazing 🙌

It’s only 4 months, I worked those sort of hours in 2 different jobs when young when you are young with no real responsibilities that’s the time to do it. I know someone who worked on luxury yachts, watching that series on TV made me realise just how relentless it is, she did it in her twenties. I think she did 16 to 18 hour days. She was earning about 50k PA 20 years ago let alone the tips.

While we are comparing jobs / working hours / time off.

I've recently been watching some stuff from someone who worked on a nuclear sub. So OK in the armed forces, you don't expect life to be esy.

Once they go underwater they do not surface for months, maybe 5 or 6.

They work 6 hours on, 6 hours off 24 hours a day. You get a bunk in a shared room if you are lucky, some 'share' a bed so after 6 hours work you get to sleep in a bed someone has just climbed out of.

You have no internet or phone signal, you can receive 1 printed out email a week.

Because of condensation it 'rains' inside.

Showers are timed in seconds. Towards the end of your 'patrol' (sorry I don't know the right word) people run out of toiletries.

Disney sounds more appealing.

DCL is employed not self employed :)

She'll need to register for self assessment and the process could be more complicated if she's working at sea.

Of course the 'self employment' is a ruse to further degrade her statutory employment rights as it would never pass the HMRC self employment test, such as her being able to pick and choose when she works or send a substitute.

Obviously most parents using the kids club would expect the people working there to be DBS checked, first aid trained etc (something else to think about, who pays for this if she gets the job?) so she can't just send a random mate if she doesn't feel like working.

But if they claim she's 'self employed' it probably gives them the power to cancel shifts without pay if no DC turn up for the club.

Of course, if she gets the job, she might decide its not necessarily about the money. It's only 4 months and she might be happy to do it for the experience, hopefully she'll learn lots about many aspects of life and work, see some new places and make new friends.

It means she has to get in touch, in advance, with the tax office and get some forms.

You also need to check if she is ' employed ' or ' self employed ' as one of the cruise ship companies in the UK takes on ' self employed ' staff for the kids club.

She would likely earn about £2000 US Dollars a month. For 70 hrs a week and no days off ever.
She won’t be on holiday that is for sure.
She might want to work out what happens if she wants to leave, or becomes sick, what personal insurance she needs to take out. Especially as she is looking after children.
And hope she is sharing with someone nice and honest.

I know chefs and pub landlords that do. And it doesn’t end after a few months either.

This kid sounds like she’s getting a fantastic opportunity, you sound like you’d prefer her to do 36 hours stacking shelves at Lidl then go home for her mum to mop her weary brow. No wonder kids have no resilience

If she looks on tik tok she’ll find girls who have done it who know the real set up and can ask about shifts, downtime etc.
Disney has set ages for kids clubs 3-12. 10-13, 14-17. They need to be toilet trained to go in club. There is a baby nursery too you pay extra for. Each club has different themed rooms and is usually very overstaffed.
The kids clubs do run long hours. Eg in evening they do watch a film in pjs type things.
Shore days most people get off ship so kids clubs will be quiet.

No day off is hard but depending on route they may dock at private island and run kids club on there so at least a chance to see land and a change of scenery.
It’s 4 months and potentially a great experience. Her decision.
They have kids clubs up to age 17. I know the staff running the 14-17 vibe section weren’t run off feet they just hung out with the teens, did snacks and ran icebreakers and a few games.
Mine did Camp America last year. They slept in bunks with the kids and got 1 day off a week and a few evenings off plus one free period a day. She had fantastic time and has signed up again. I think as long as know what agreeing to it’s up to them.
It’s a difficult graduate market and something like Disney cruise would be a good talking point on cv and employer would know they could survive without their phone and their mum and work hard.

Insane but I remember 20 years ago looking to do work America during the summer holidays at uni that Disney had the worst pay and the longest hours.

Dont know if BUNAC are still a thing but I worked at a lovely country club with 1.5 days off a week plus 2 weeks leave to take at any point in the 4 months out there and great pay with tips to come when you got home.

I would definitely go in that direction if I were her rather than be trapped on a cruise ship for 4 months in a kids club (unless she wants a career in teaching - I could see how it could be useful then!)

Forgot to add. I found easy to save money despite the wage being low as you have no real outgoings. I did a couple of years and bought my first property with a 50% deposit.

You can save. A friend worked in Dubai marketing a hotel. Living in saved enough in a year to buy a terraced house in Yorkshire her mum found for her.

Someone else after three years put down a 40% deposit on their first house a three bed semi. Three years later bought a four bed doer upper.

The yachting crew for the super yachts work 16 hour days. The tips a week on one yacht were 10% 30k split among the crew. They get downtime between destinations.

I worked in retail and worked all the overtime I could get over the summer. I was 16-18, ambitious/wanted my own money, and wasn’t paying tax/NI as I was below the threshold over the year, so got to pocket it all. It was the only time in my working life that there was a clear effort to reward ratio. I definitely felt richer then than I do now as a high earning (‘on paper’) professional in my 30s!

Wrong. I have worked in hospitality, and I know people who do. And NO-ONE works 70 hour weeks. No-one I know.

Only reason for working that many hours would be if you needed the money.

There's a reason that people who work for "The Disney Corporation" referred to their offices as "Mouse-chwitz" or "Duck-au"...

Ahh tell me you’ve never worked in hospitality without telling me, 50/60 hour weeks were the absolute norm. Wedding season the place I worked would host weddings from Wednesday - Sunday. Usual shift would be 10am - midnight. You could work them all if you wanted.

I had so much more money then than I do now as an adult with grown up responsibilities, in your early 20s (20 years ago for me) jobs like that were just par for the course in my friend group for a year or 2. Not careers, none of us did them after 25.

I bet my house that when you worked in a pub, you didn't work 70 hours a week like the OP's DC. And you didn't work 6 days a week, with hardly any breaks.

And it would be like 10am to 2.30pm, and then 4pm to 9.30pm or 10pm. (All on the same day.)

tbf I used to work these hours in a pub at home when I was 18/19, split shifts like that are the norm in hospitality where there's a lunch and then an evening opening.