HAPPILY WORKING FOR 50 YEARS AT DISNEY
"There are people all over the world who get up to go work. They're unhappy about it. They don't really like their jobs. As you can tell from us, there's an enthusiasm. We are privileged to be at a place where we love what we do."
High school graduate George Kalogridis made a split-second decision that set the course for his life: he picked a room where prospective hotel workers were being hired.
Chuck Milam got a tip about a job opening from a transplanted Disney executive whose new house he was landscaping.
Earliene Anderson jumped at the chance to take a job at the new Disney theme park in Florida, having fallen in love with the beauty of Disneyland in California during a trip two years earlier.
At the time, the three were among the 6,000 employees who opened the Magic Kingdom at Disney World to the public for the first time on Oct. 1, 1971. Now, they are among two dozen from that first day still employed at the theme park resort as it celebrated its 50th anniversary...
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