How Disney Working Experience Completely Changed My Millennial Life
By: J.P. Novice
Tags: Work, Experience, Change Your Life, Disney, Life

Happiness Changes Your Surrounding

If you have been to Disneyland, I’m sure you have seen how Mickey, Minnie and their friends are happy and excited when you take photo and play with them. In fact, this happens as well at our worker’s backstage.

I was waiting to take the elevator to go up to my back office to start my work as usual. When the elevator door opened, Mickey and Minnie came out (even at backstage we did not know who was the actor/actress behind the costume).

Minnie looked very excited and immediately hugged me and prevented me to get in the elevator once she saw me. Mickey was so angry to see his girlfriend cheating in front of him, he actually joined the prank & avoid me getting in the elevator at all cost. Eventually, the elevator door closed & Mickey grinned from ear to ear, grabbed Minnie away from me and they left the area.

After that, I was late to clock in and all my colleagues and manager laughed so loud after hearing my unbelievable experience.

Knowing how to be happy changes your surrounding brings more positive power in your life. I learnt that it’s a effective magic pill that cures urban people’s anxiety and stress which a millennial always struggle with.

Treasure The Relationship With Your Co-Worker

There’s one good thing about working in Disneyland — Peaceful and Happy Working Environment and Culture. The after work parties teach me how important on treating your co-worker better & need to learn how to maintain the relationship.

My manager once taught me one important lesson in workplace while I was having lunch with him.

“If you think you are good at dealing with customers & thus you believe that you are a superior customer service worker, you are too naive and wrong. The best customer service worker goes to someone who knows how to maintain a good relationship with their co-workers.

I assume most people have watched different youngsters YouTube videos featuring their self-made billionaire success stories and built up a mindset that it’s a single person journey and they can do it too alone.

Well, I can tell you that’s not the case. Most of the successful stories from a successful YouTube channel or big company comes from the best team such as Jack Ma, Mark Zuckerberg or even Elon Musk. Life is like playing a chess game, if you want to beat the enemies in the world, then you need to build the best team for your world.

Build Up Empathy Towards People

Disney brings happiness to people and this is the symbolic image that stays inside most people brain. But do you know how Disney can keep bringing happiness to all different kinds of people? The answer is empathy.

There was an unforgettable real story happened during my work one night. One lady walked up to me and cried so loud because her family member passed away during this trip & requested to refund all her Disneyland tickets & early check out to fly back to her hometown soon.

This was not something happen so often to a customer service worker like me and I was stunned for a moment as well. But thanks to what Disney taught me about empathy is, this is how I helped the lady:

I’m so sorry to hear your experience you’ve had. Your children must be very upset that need to face both tragic cases and early ending for their trip. Let’s go to the shop and pick two gifts for your children together, we will give these gifts to them for free with a handmade card afterwards. We are always here to help and support you.

The lady stopped crying and start smiling on her face once we brought her into the shop and chose the best two signature gifts for her children. Millennials may face unfair treatment from school or workplace but remember complaining always ends with vicious circle, only building up empathy towards people can start changing you life for the better.