What Does It Take to be A Jungle Cruise Skipper?

[GrandpaD]

A degree in Dad Jokes?

What does it take to become one of Disney World's Jungle Cruise Skippers?

Earlier this summer, we were invited to Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando for a special look at what it takes to land one of the park’s most coveted gigs: Skipper of Adventureland’s Jungle Cruise. After a tour of the attraction’s fictional version of the Amazon River, we sat down with Skippers...

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[jeffh]

I love Jungle Cruise, but couldn't deal with the 34 shows every day...

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[Jesy]

The time my son spent as a college intern at Disney one of his roommates was a Jungle Cruise skipper. That particular year (i think five years ago) all the college interns chosen to work as such (according to his roommate) had alliterative names. I have to believe that they were personable in their interviews as well, but that seems really random. The roommate worked a ton of overtime because hardly anyone is appropriately cross-trained on Jungle Cruise other than those hired to do so. He received a lot of guest accolades but those didn't correspond to monetary increases in salary.
One of his other apartment-mates was chosen as a boat skipper running routes between Port Orleans and Disney Springs. He proved to be too fearful to do so, and gave up that job for a less stressful one.
Another roommate was a lifeguard who really liked his job but had a lot of cancelled hours due to Florida weather.
And my son? He was hired as a character actor after auditioning in Philadelphia. Three days into wearing a character suit in 90 degree Florida weather he decided he was too claustrophobic and hot to carry on. He accepted a job in merchandising which was indoors in Disney Springs. His premium pay for being a character actor was an extra 10 cents an hour. He was happy to transfer to Disney Springs.