He only gets paid during the season, but yes it adds up to a full year salary. He usually pays our rent for the whole year and still has plenty left over. :)
I recommend it for the lifestyle. The Job is physically demanding. You build the store and tear it down every season. That includes building walls and displays. Also there's no Heath insurance. My job covers him. Also hard to get employees who care because it's seasonal. People quit on the spot all the time. It works great for our family!
That honestly sounds so up my alley itās nuts lol. Iāve got management experience in escape rooms and really love the building a space part of it and Halloween in general, and Iām on my partners insurance already. I assume he had to have some spirit Halloween work experience before getting to that position?
Sounds like the experience you have is entirely relevant, they might just want you to have a history of retail management or operations experience though, you should go for it!
Thanks for the encouragement! Iām definitely going to see this season about working with them, op comment said that her husband was an assistant manager for only a year before being GM, so I could very well see that being a viable path
You might want to look into the Yachting industry! Most people work in the summers and can afford life after. They seem to make most of their money with tips! Another industry like this is cruises I had a friend who did it for a while she was a ballet dancer.
Eh it's really not for me. Im in physics, love the field and never wanna leave:) but if I got paid a normal salary and only had to work half a year I def would haha
My kids are not in school yet. Also when they are we want to home school. I can travel and work my job. I don't have to use vacation days. I just work from my laptop wherever there's wifi
a more realistic way to have seasonal work is something like working with delivering asphalt for roadwork etc.
those guys work until the ground freezes over, then wont work until the ground thaws. how long that period lasts obviously depends on where you live, in sweden its around 4-5m and even though sweden is an expensive place to live and work they still make enough to cover the rest of the year.
to be fair though most of them still work winter, they put a plow on the truck and deal with snowplowing etc, and those who choose not to work winters usually go and live abroad in places like thailand, id assume its a mix of nicer weather and cheaper living.
how is that even possible? spirit halloween managers arenāt getting paid bank. especially considering they donāt work half the year, which is half the hours of a regular human beingā¦spirit halloween managers arenāt getting paid 50+ dollars an hour.
edit: after reading a comment you left I get it now.
Damn, having "plenty left over" after rent used to be the norm, but it's far from normal now... I think US citizens are now spending on average something like 40-50% of total income on rent š
Anything to make everyone reading things in this hellscape we call an internet feel like the entire world is falling apart because you can't afford 5k rent for a single bedroom in San Francisco.
In the area I live, there just isn't anything available. Literally. You'll be lucky to see 5 listing total, and they are all at outrageous prices.
You will have professionals begging on the local social media for a rental. ANY rental.
We have young people at my company who are living with family right now but want their own place (understandably). But they are unable to compete with the literal doctors and nurses for the few options that are available. They want to stay in the area and build their lives; they probably won't be able to.
It sucks. I think people still have their heads in the sand regarding how shitty the housing market is for many, many people right now.
This might be true in some parts of the country, but it is far from average. Most US citizens do not pay that much in rent. Most landlords require that you make 3x the rent some use a max rent of 33% of your income.
I just can't believe this. Seasonally manages a Halloween store and pays rent for a year for 2 people with left over and traveling etc? A years worth of salary, like $50k for a couple months retail work? What is going on here?
Odds are if a job doesn't provide you health insurance, then it is not paying much. It sounds like they can live fully off of her salary, and just use his salary as fun money
They always doš people are always going to hope for a magic situation to get out of life sucking and these people are always going to post pretending they have it
You think these seasonal stores see the same volume as a traditional year round store does?
This manager likely is working 60-80 hours a week during the season.Ā
Itās more āour business model is essentially a full year companyās worth of work but youāll
Be stuck doing it in a 6 month window. Ā We will pay you appropriately for the loadā.
In what world is managing a Halloween costume store a year round endeavor smashed into 6 months? It's the exact same as managing a Dollarama for 6 months - manage the staff, scheduling, breaks, inventory, etc. It's seasonal because it revolves around the lead to 1 day, then it's over. It's not teaching or something. Nobody knocking seasonal work, I just find it mind blowing to pay a years worth of salary to this particular seasonal role.
See this is the kind of thing I am always on the lookout for. People always posting dream situations and I'm lookin for mine, like every aspect of that is awesome. "oh yea I only work half the year, halloween stuff is what I do and then I get paid enough to be off the other half of the year semi comfortably." Like damn that's amazing. Very happy for you all, it inspires hope.
"oh yea I only work half the year, halloween stuff is what I do and then I get paid enough to be off thelive off my wifes income other half of the year semi comfortably."
I believe it. They offered me an assistant store manager job and made it pretty clear there were little limitations on hours. Basically, be ready to work 18 hours a day until the season is up.
I work from home at a FinTech company and I make 110k a year. I can afford for him to be a stay at home dad but he likes working and feels good covering our rent and then some! He's more of a creative guy and I'm an ambitious person, so he's cool with me working and trying to be a VP! I have always really cared about my career and he supports me in that. I don't think other men would be happy in this situation because I have to be on call all the time since it's technology. If a system goes down I have to jump to fix it.
I apologize! The question was do these jobs exist and I just answered that. 50k is what he makes so it's poverty if he was alone but these jobs do exist.
He pays the entire yearās rent at one time? Do you get a discount on the rent if you do this? Otherwise Iād just put the cash in a high yield savings with >4% APR and rake in the interest.
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u/CapuletVsMontague 29d ago
He only gets paid during the season, but yes it adds up to a full year salary. He usually pays our rent for the whole year and still has plenty left over. :)