Well it was only my first year and I had some friends that saved up what they thought "was a large sum of money"...yet I talked to pretty many people that left w/ the same about I did...MY BONUS! Good luck!
-Frankie
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"the Wafer King"
spritekw@yahoo.com
I've heard stories of a few people leaving with $2000 or so. I wanted to walk out with $2000. The total outcome of what I had to walk out with after October 28th....
Drum Roll....... My bonus which was about $475 after taxes were taken out. and a $550 in tax returns. So I basically walked out with $1000. I'm not sure if that $2000 was before or after taxes....
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- Chris -
http://www.thepointol.com/~simplycp
Computer Science - Ashland University
Witches' Wheel/Monster - 2002
3rd Shift Trash Removal - 2001
I made a gross pay of about $8200 with my bonus..not all of that was take home pay...but due to poor planning and a merger between 5/3 and Old Kent that didn't take place until August, I have nothing to show for it.
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Annie
CP & LE RR Crew '01
ATL Swings and Swans '02
Game 1 of the CCHA Semifinals..Michigan-2 Ohio State-1 in sudden death overtime..GO BLUE!!!!
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~Lee~
Group Sales ATL '01
Park Admissions TL '02
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Who's afraid of the big bad... sea gull?
I was probably one of the biggest penny pinchers. I worked myself like a ten year old Mylasian kid in a Nike factory. I found a guy that would support my alcoholism (thanks Rob) and I lived in Gold. **shiver** The things I do to pay for school.
I think the total that I walked out with was $2,800, my bonus was about $800 and I haven't paid much attention to my tax returns so I don't know what I'm getting back from that. I think my gross was almost $7,000. I worked from the end of April to the end of August.
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~Sabrina~
Gemini 2001
Live E: Hooray for Hollywood 2002
"I'm a woman. We don't say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed off when we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating. And not a little bit scary."
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Millennium Force- 2001
ATL Peanuts Playground/Ocean Motion- 2002
About the dumbest thing you can do with money is what I did. I swear I'm the next character in the "Confessions of a Shopaholic" series. First off, I live in Virginia and my bank doesn't exist above the mason dixon line, so I had to send my paychecks home if I wanted to see them appear in my checking account. The first summer, I did pretty well. I have to say, I didn't work my*****off and took quite a few cutbacks so I averaged about 50-60 hours a week and I ended up saving enough to get to go on a sweet trip to Austraila the following January. Last summer I blew it. DO NOT GET SUCKED INTO CASHING YOUR PAYCHECKS....it's the biggest mistake I made. Carrying around/having that much money is just too much of a hassel, too much of a risk of losing it (yeah, did that too...left my wallet in the matterhorn bathroom but it was returned to me along with the 200 dollars in cash by a woman from Michigan...yeah, I'm more than lucky), and too much temptation to go to the mall...or the boyish alternative of that.
Anyway, get direct deposit through 5/3rd...I'm so doing that this summer so I can't get my hands on anything green and real. Trust me, you want to save as much as you can...and you can really walk away with quite a bit. Last summer I made a total of about 7,000 with my bonus and ended up having 2,000 left. You do the math...you have to be careful or you'll spend it all. Another good thing to do is have a goal in mind...like paying for tuition, paying for a big trip, paying for something that will motivate you to get out of bed every morning so you know you're doing this for something that's worth it.
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Kiddy Kingdom '00
Power Tower/Iron Dragon '01
Park Op Office '02
Old Timer Tim is my Hero!
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Park Operations- Traffic 2002 CANT WAIT!
I have made about 3500 dollars already this summer, but I won't see any of it for another month or so. This is a follow-up for anyone who got my nasty email after I quit. :-)
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I am still the Geminazi!
rawr!
*** This post was edited by CrazyCoasterGuy 7/25/2002 12:01:39 PM ***
My father worked the Breakers a loooooonnnggg time ago, and said it was actually one of the better jobs he had there. No, they didn't get paid much at all, but you could certainly live off the tips.
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-Matt (Czar of the ever-reworking Loopscrew.com & proponent of campy Demon theme song! VIVA!)
Depending on how old your father is, he probably worked Breakers when there were NO elevators. Now those guys earned every nickel carrying bags and coolers up and down the stairs of the old hotel.
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