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Mr & Mrs Jones: We Care for All Family Daycare has been instrumental in helping my son. The daycare staff were instrumental in getting him through some major developmental milestones, including potty training and helping with developing his social skills. My husband and I were pleased with the fact he was able to get one on one with his daycare teacher. At four years old, my son now knows how to read and has done the Pre-K content more than once. I have to say a big thanks to Ms. Shirnet and her team. If you are looking for a home away from home, for your child. I would highly recommend the services of the daycare.

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Mrs. Shirnet, thank you so much. When I drop my daughter Jillian off each day, I am completely at ease because I know she is being cared for as if she were one of your own. For that peace of mind, I cannot thank you and your staff enough.

Judine: Miss Shirnet,  Miss Nicket , Aunt Dor ,and the rest of staff. I just want to let  you know how much my husband Gregory and I  appreciate the excellent job you have done over the past 10 months while my 2-year-old daughter Jillian  has been attending your home daycare center. Jillian  has really thrived in your home center, thanks to your nurturing and creativity. She always looks forward to seeing you and all of the other happy children. Even though it’s difficult to be away from her while we are  working, we have peace of mind in knowing that she is in such good hands during those times. Miss Shirnet I remembered that first day I called to check in on her and you mentioned you guys were having a devotion, that was the icing on the cake for me. Any place that teaches my child about God that’s where I want my child to be, the very first word I heard my child spell was Bible. We were so amazed when after in your day care for 2 months she knew her colors was singing her ABC’s for Santa at the mall :). We love you guys and you guys will not only be a friend to us but family😀. Ps: I know our  little fire rocket drive you guys up the wall at times thanks for not charging us more for her lol .

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Description: Wee Care For All Child Care Center is a Licensed Center – Child Care Program in BRENHAM TX, with a maximum capacity of 185 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School. The provider also participates in a subsidized child care program.

Additional Information: Initial License Date: 5/19/2014.

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What is self-care?

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Don’t confuse self-care with selfishness. The point is not that we think only about our needs, but that, only by taking care of ourselves, we will be able to give attention and energy to loved ones.

What is self-care?

Self-care can be considered any activity through which we consciously invest energy, time, money in our mental, emotional and physical health. In theory, everything is simple, but in practice we often miss a lot. Proper self-care is essential to maintaining a good mood and reducing anxiety. It is also important so that we can properly build relationships with ourselves and others.

What is not self-care?

Perhaps it is even more important to understand what is not self-care. If we have to force ourselves to do something and we do not get joy from it, this activity can no longer be considered self-care. According to clinical psychologist Agnes Wainman, “Self-care is what recharges us, it shouldn’t take energy away.”

Taking care of yourself is the key to balance in life

Where to start? Here are three golden rules:

• Start simple – sleep, relaxation, pleasant hobbies, going to the doctor. Over time, you will find a rhythm that suits you and understand in what form self-care is most suitable for you personally.

• Self-care is only something we plan on purpose, not something that happens on its own. It is always our conscious choice. If you are planning something, add it to your schedule, tell others about it to solidify your intention. Actively look for opportunities to invest energy in yourself.

• I often stress the importance of mindfulness when talking to clients. In other words, if you do not see something as taking care of yourself, then you will not get the corresponding effect. Be aware of what you are doing, why you are doing it, how you feel about it and what result you get in the end.

Only by taking care of ourselves will we be able to give attention and energy to loved ones

What you can do for yourself:

• Write down everything you don’t like or don’t want to do. For example: do not check email late at night and at night, do not go to events and parties that you do not like, do not answer calls during lunch and dinner.

• Eat a healthy and balanced diet.

• Get enough sleep. An adult needs 7-8 hours of sleep per day.

• Exercise or exercise. Many do not know this, but physical activity benefits our emotional health, not just physical. It increases serotonin levels, which in turn improves mood and energy. Keeping in mind the rules of self-care, choose the type of physical activity that you enjoy.

• Do not put off the necessary preventive examinations and visits to the doctor.

• Do relaxation exercises and/or meditate. You can do this at any time of the day.

• Spend enough time with loved ones.

• Do something every day to relax, whether it’s a short walk or 30 minutes of quiet time.

• Do something nice for yourself every day: go to the movies, cook your favorite meal, arrange a meeting with friends.

• Look for opportunities to laugh.

Make a 15-day self-care schedule and compare how you feel before and after. And remember, as with everything else in life, taking good care of yourself comes with experience.

About the author: Rafailla Michel, counseling psychologist.

Text: Nikolai Protsenko

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What prevents us from taking care of ourselves

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“All these recommendations seem so simple,” writes 37-year-old Nadezhda, one of the readers of Psychologies. – Stretch before getting out of bed, breathe properly, prepare yourself a bath and arrange a meditation session in it. But for me it is as unrealistic as climbing Everest. I guess deep down I just don’t believe that all this can change my life. For some reason, some people are able to learn to do well for themselves, while others are doomed to read advice, not finding the strength to apply it.

Why, realizing that a caring, careful attitude to oneself is the basis of physical and emotional well-being, why do many of us openly neglect our body, forget about it, or even openly act to its detriment?

We ‘listen to mom and dad’

The English language has the concept of routine – a series of regular repetitive actions, it is used in relation to both daily hygiene and rituals of applying cosmetics (beauty routine). The Russian word “routine” is related to it – only in our language it has a clearly negative connotation, as a reflection of something tedious, pedantic, boring.

“In practice, self-care looks like a certain learned sequence of actions, a habit to perform them,” says Olga Dolgopolova, a gestalt therapist. This skill is instilled in childhood. For those whose dad did exercises in the morning, and mom applied cream every evening in front of the mirror, self-care will more likely seem like a natural thing. Others will have to master this science anew.”

If the example of parents gives us a model of behavior, then their view of ourselves allows us to develop a benevolent attitude towards our own body.

“Self-perception is formed through the words, gestures and attitudes learned in childhood,” explains French psychotherapist Michel Freud. “If this experience has been satisfactory, we will be able to create a healthy body image and a positive self-image.

In other cases, the relationship to the body will be more complex and may manifest itself in many ways: poor nutrition, overexertion, unhealthy lifestyle, etc. To these inputs are added the positive or negative ideas brought by our education. All this determines our behavior.

Not daring to spend time on ourselves, feeling guilty, considering being a waste of time, associating rest with laziness – such beliefs, conscious or not, make us deaf to our own needs, prevent us from treating ourselves well.

“I’m not worth it”

This is especially true of women: “I’m going to have to take this time/money away from my family/child”. Often we not only (rightly) equate self-care with pleasure, but (wrongly) see selfishness in this activity.

“It will be easier for such a woman to take care of others than of herself — this gives her greater inner satisfaction,” states Olga Dolgopolova. “Most likely, so did her mother or grandmother. And she will pass this baton to the next generation – her child, whom she cares so much about.

But if she learns to recognize and satisfy her needs, to fulfill her desires, it will be much easier for her to teach this to her children – and thereby help them become happy. A woman has a choice: to continue this form of suffering from dissatisfaction with herself and life, or stop, pay attention to her needs and needs.

Taking care of yourself does not mean giving priority only to your own interests – contrary to the interests of other people. “A person needs others in order to fully feel alive, existing,” says French psychiatrist and psychotherapist Robert Neuburger. “That is why we often pay attention to ourselves not for our own sake, but depending on the way other people look at us. To keep your belonging to them.

If a person feels unimportant, if he doubts his worth and does not find a place for himself, self-care loses all meaning.

“After the divorce, I felt terrible – homely, uninteresting,” recalls 44-year-old Marina. – At that time, taking care of myself for me meant at least reaching the hairdresser so that my 12-year-old daughter, against all odds, had a positive example before her eyes. And it was for her then that I painted my lips.

“I take care of myself”

“The generally accepted expression “take care of yourself” in its true meaning implies a caring, understanding attitude towards yourself,” says Olga Dolgopolova. – But we often replace it with another – “take care of yourself”, that is, rationally, by an effort of will, build yourself a kind of “front part”, which often hides not caring for yourself. When someone says “I have to take care of myself”, there is nothing about “I want” in it.

“Masks, massages, yoga — when do all these yogas work?! – in the words of 36-year-old Evelina, condemnation and envy sound at the same time. – I run a recruiting agency, a team of 20 people, I have two children and really do not have time to cherish myself!

When my girlfriends were pampering themselves, as women’s magazines prescribe, I worked hard on my diploma in the USA. Needless to say, aromatherapy foam baths were far from my number one priority! Maybe today I would like to give myself a rest, learn to relax and care for my body, but life with its habits has already developed.

Almost everyone has excuses to openly neglect themselves. But the commonplace “I don’t have time” most often hides other, deeply rooted beliefs: “I have no right to please myself,” “I don’t deserve such expenses,” “All this will not make me happier.” And each of them contains aggression directed at oneself, a depressive state, or all the same unconscious messages that are passed down from generation to generation.

29-year-old Laura appreciated the extent of her inner tension on the day she agreed to be massaged by her vacation friend. “We sunbathed by the pool: the sun, the scents of flowers, the gentle breeze, and two minutes later I burst into tears quite unexpectedly! I don’t know how to explain it, but all this was somehow too much for me – too tender, too affectionate, this has never happened in my life!

Respect your body

To learn how to truly care for it, you should first start thinking about it, advises the famous French psychoanalyst Jean-David Nazio.

“We have two possibilities to exist in our own body,” explains Jean-David Nazio. – Either forgetting about it (I identify with it, I think that I am my body), or thinking about it (I consider my body to be my most valuable asset, I say to myself: I have a body). In other words, perceiving ourselves and our body as something unified, we are not able to split in two in order to begin to treat it as an object of care and careful care. On the contrary, if we are aware that we have the body as a subject that has the power to prolong or terminate our life, we treat it with all the respect that it rightfully deserves.

We are afraid to upset the balance

Such a reaction is not surprising: for a person who surrounds himself with an emotionally rigid shell, tenderness, signs of attention, affectionate touches do not just seem strange – they threaten his inner balance. Afraid of incurring the “judgment” of relatives behind us or undermining the defense strategies that have helped us build our identity and life, we “button up” to continue treating ourselves the same way.

“Caring for oneself can be painful or even impossible if one unconsciously perceives it as a kind of violation,” says Michel Freud. – As an opportunity to do what your parents did not allow: to please yourself, to spend time on yourself, to listen to yourself. Taking this step is not easy, it requires overcoming guilt in order to move beyond the repetitive pattern.

“Of course, it is much easier for those who accept and love themselves to take sincere care of themselves,” concludes Olga Dolgopolova. “But the opposite is also true: by gradually mastering the simple gestures that make up the science of caring for ourselves, we more easily agree to accept ourselves as we are and begin to treat ourselves much better. Only this path will allow us not to collapse in the endless use of ourselves, but to gently restore the connection between us and our body, and therefore ourselves.”

5 keys to change

Only by moving forward, step by step, can you learn to truly take care of yourself. Several therapeutic techniques offered by the Gestalt therapist Olga Dolgopolova.

Don’t go overboard. Write on a piece of paper three phrases, starting with the words “I want”, draw a line and write “I must” three times as well. Think about how the first phrases differ from the second and how “should” could be transformed into “want”. Perhaps some of your nutrition, figure, and beauty goals are too burdensome for you and that is why they are difficult to achieve. Torturing yourself also means “to be too demanding of yourself.”

Be aware of your movements. While making the simplest gestures – getting dressed, washing your face, applying cream – deliberately slow down the rhythm and pay attention to what sensations these movements give you. By acting mechanically, we forget about the body and increasingly tend to neglect it.

Make time for pleasure. A day a week or an hour a day in your schedule is worth “booking” for yourself. Use this time only according to your own taste – in active action or idleness. A cup of tea, an hour of reading under a cozy blanket, or a sweet siesta – while devoting time to yourself, continue to note your emotions and thoughts, including those that are not entirely pleasant: feelings of guilt, tension, inability to focus on pleasure.

Find a company. You can create your own well-being society, find like-minded people. Running, yoga, fitness, sauna, swimming pool or dancing – doing any bodily practices together or in a group is much more effective, because it gives a constant feeling of support. And, by the way, it helps to maintain the regularity of classes.

Praise yourself . But not for the “right things” for the benefit of others, but for the manifestation of care, for any sign of attention that you give yourself. Being good to ourselves is not easy for most of us, and therefore each of these small actions becomes a huge step towards inner freedom.

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    • Troy School District, MI•

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    Student-Teacher Ratio: 16 to 1,

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      Rating 5 out of 5  2 reviews

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    • Rochester Community School District, MI•

    • PK, K-5

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      Rating 5 out of 5  1 review

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    Student-Teacher Ratio: 19 to 1,

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      Rating 5 out of 5  5 reviews

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    Pierce Elementary School

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    Birmingham Public Schools, MI,

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      Rating 3. 5 out of 5  2 reviews

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    North Hill Elementary School

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    Rochester Community School District, MI,

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    Student-Teacher Ratio: 13 to 1,

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    Everest Collegiate High School & Academy

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24. #53 Best Public Elementary Schools in Detroit Area

    #53 Best Public Elementary Schools in Detroit Area.

    Long Meadow Elementary School

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    Rochester Community School District, MI,

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    Overall Niche Grade: A,

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    Student-Teacher Ratio: 18 to 1,

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      Rating 3.86 out of 5  64 reviews

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TO THE CHILDREN’S HOUSE (v detskiy dom) in Russian Translation

I want to the orphanage .

I want to go to the orphanage .

They came to the orphanage with guns and machetes.

They came to the orphanage with machetes and guns.

In autumn 1939 the uncle has arranged Aliya to the children’s home 46.

Bogus will have to go again to the orphanage ?

Should Bogus go back to the orphanage ?

Oh, are you going to send her back to orphanage ?

Oh, you’re gonna send it back, what, to the orphanage ?

People also translate

sleep in every orphanage

visited orphanage

preschool orphanage

our orphanage

this orphanage

private orphanage

They will send you again to the orphanage !

They’re gonna take you back to the orphanage !

Dvir. .. Go back to the children’s house ,

Dvir… Go back to the children’s house .

The boy ends up in the orphanage , which is evacuated to the Volga.

The boy was taken to an orphanage and was later evacuated to the Volga.

He was sent to an orphanage , and then to study in Leningrad.

He was sent to an orphanage , then to study in Leningrad.

My father came to the orphanage where you sent me.

My father showed up at the orphanage that you dumped me at.

kindergarten, house

in my house

house is in

in the white house

Placement in orphanage is an extreme measure used to protect children.

The Children’s Home is a last resort option for placement of children at risk.

Children are sent to orphanage , of course.

The babies go to an orphanage , of course.

Give him to the orphanage .

Put him in an orphanage .

Father Chris Shea was transferred to Orphanage in Guatemala four years ago.

Father Chris Shea was transferred to an orphanage in Guatemala four years ago.

So we sent her to orphanage and died before her.

So, we sent her an orphanage , and dying before her.

The council converted it into orphanage in the 30s.

The council had converted it into a children’s home in the 30’s.

was assigned to orphanage in Ivanovo, where he started playing football.

He has been identified in an orphanage in Ivanovo, where he started playing football.

Was sent to orphanage .

She was moved to a nursing home .

If there are none, the court may send the child to the orphanage .

If there is no any close relative,

the court can send the child to an orphanage .

Otherwise… we will send her to orphanage .

Otherwise… we will send her to an orphanage .

Your brother will be placed in an orphanage .

The country will put your brother in an orphanage .

The child was taken away from her and was given to the orphanage .

They took it off her, put it in an orphanage .

We will take steps to transfer him to the orphanage .

We will take steps to put him in an orphanage .

Then Fred went to the orphanage .

Sannie was then in a nursing home .

We must give her to the orphanage .

We have to give her to an orphanage .

Implementation of the Holiday: June 1 at 12:00 we leave to the orphanage .

Implementation of the Feast:

June 1 at 12.00 we are leaving for the orphanage .

It’s all my fault. I brought you to the orphanage and you got into this mess.

It’s all my fault for bringing you to the orphanage and getting you mixed up in this mess.

They were brought to orphanage in an ambulance when the mother overdosed.

They were brought to the children’s home in an ambulance after their mother overdosed on drugs.

On the same day we paid a clown visit to the orphanage “Khury-

Tyn” in Vladikavkaz, where we have also been known for a long time and are always warmly received.

On the same day we had a clowning visit to the orphanage Khury Tyn,

Vladikavkaz, where we always receive a very warm welcome.

When he was brought to the orphanage , the boy stood in the middle of the room and, with his mouth open,

looked at the shelf with toys.

When he was brought to the children’s home , the boy just stood in the middle of the room

and stared at the shelf full of toys.

“We are now true Americans” The story of a Muscovite who moved to Michigan and lived in the USA for half her life: People: From life: Lenta.ru

Moving to another country at a young age means not only getting more opportunities for assimilation and in order to successfully settle in a new place. This is also a test, because you have to leave your parents and friends. Among those who nevertheless decided and did not regret – Muscovite Maria. As part of a series of materials about compatriots who moved abroad, she told Lente.ru why, having lived half her life in the United States, she is unlikely to return to Russia.

American Dream

In 1999 I graduated from one of the Moscow special schools with in-depth study of foreign languages. Where to go? I decided to try my luck in two directions at once: not only to take exams at a Moscow university, but also to try to send documents to a higher educational institution in the States. I chose the University of Michigan.

As a result, I entered a university in my homeland, but a positive response also came from overseas. I thought it over and decided to go to America. I chose the direction “Finance”. Initially, the plan was to unlearn and return to work in Russia, but life decreed otherwise.

When I arrived, I settled (and now live) in the city where the university is located – Ann Arbor. She lived with friends, then rented an apartment. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree and found a job. My employer gave me a work visa. My profession is a financial analyst. I successfully received a green card, and then citizenship, on the basis of employment for hire.

In my last year I met my future husband, he is also from Russia, but he studied at a different faculty and now works as a programmer. Together we bought a house. We have a five year old daughter.

Expat fiefdom

The population of Ann Arbor is about 120 thousand people. This is a very international, multicultural city, because it is a student city. Accordingly, everyone here has long been accustomed to foreigners. In general, the city is very liberal, the attitude is good towards everyone, including sexual minorities (so no homophobes here).

Russians are also loved, especially teachers: they know that students with quality knowledge come from Russia. Previously, there was even an international exchange program between the physics and mathematics departments of the University of Michigan and Moscow State University, but then Moscow University abandoned it, because almost none of the Russian students returned home.

There are especially a lot of programmers and engineers among the visitors – here are the Google office, the Toyota development center. In general, there are many highly skilled workers from other countries in the state, since Detroit has many different auto industries.

Few people live in Detroit itself, but there are many small towns around it, smoothly passing one into another, and you can build a nest there for every taste: there are communities (cottage villages) for white-collar workers, blue-collar workers, as well as where mostly African Americans live. Yes, everything is pretty segregated. Our neighborhood, for example, is dominated by whites, and there are only two or three little African Americans in my daughter’s class. This, believe me, is very little for America.

Detroit

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Mortgages for life

It’s no secret that most people in America prefer houses rather than apartments, especially family people. In Ann Arbor, the range of real estate prices is very large, but the average price is about 225 thousand dollars. The middle class spends 350-400 thousand to buy a house, it will turn out to be about 250 square meters. The average annual income for a family is about 65 thousand.

Our house costs 500 thousand, but this is considered above average, and it has a larger area – 300 meters. We have already paid off the mortgage, but in general they are usually not in a hurry with this. They try to pay for retirement in order to free themselves from large expenses.

Let’s not forget about real estate taxes: 3-5 thousand per year per house.

Food and entertainment

Ann Arbor has an old authentic food market on Wednesdays and Saturdays where you can buy farm products and support a local producer. But I often go to a regular supermarket. They are here for every taste: both more expensive and cheaper, there are even for vegetarians. I try to go to those that sell bio-products – there, of course, more expensive, but the quality is different. We go grocery shopping once a week, we usually leave 150-200 dollars there.

In our spare time we go to the gym ($55-60 per person per month).

It is also customary here to dine out often, in a cafe or restaurant. The average check is probably $50 to $70 with drinks.

American childhood

In the States people get married and have children later than in Russia. This is due to the fact that people rely only on themselves and want to get on their feet first. Until the age of 25 – study, then – a career. By the age of 30, they buy a house, start a family, then live a little “for themselves”, together … This is how it turns out that the first child is somewhere in the “30 plus”.

No grandmothers sit here with babies, and no one will let them go on maternity leave for three years. Three months after giving birth, you need to go to work. Accordingly, either the child in a nursery, or hire a nanny. The latter is much more expensive, so baby care is a common option.

Our daughter went to a Russian kindergarten. We were lucky that there was one nearby – of course, this is not the case in all cities. Kindergarten costs about $200 a week, but Russian is cheaper for some reason. A babysitter would cost somewhere around $450 a week.

First of all, the girl was taught Russian, and she is learning English just now, having entered the SK (in Russian – “zero school”). While studying for free. The process is very interesting – there are no textbooks, no notebooks, in general, they try not to load the children too much. Great emphasis on independent work at home: tasks are given that parents can do with the baby themselves (but they are optional, this is all optional). The results are good: my daughter came to the “zero school”, knowing only the alphabet, and now she already reads and speaks pretty decent English.

Elementary School, Michigan

Photo: Carlos Osorio / AP

After the “zero” you can go to a free school, or to a private one, or to the so-called charter (it’s free for parents – everything is paid for by various philanthropists). We will probably try to get into an ordinary public school first, but in a special class with a good program. If the daughter fails to pass the tests there, then she will have to think about a private institution.

In general, here a public school is not always bad. They have their own ratings, and in our area, for example, there are many strong schools to which you can request a transfer if the local school does not suit you. After public school, it is quite possible to enter a decent university – well, not the Ivy League, but the same University of Michigan – quite.

Private school is not cheap, and the further you go, the more expensive it is. Let me give you an example of Cranbrook School, which we looked after for our daughter if she does not go to the state. Elementary school (grades one through five) $25,500 per year, middle school (grades six through eight) $28,100, high school (grades 9 through 12) $33,100 (or $45,200 if room and board included). So think about it, is it normal to spend that kind of money on a school. In fairness, I note that this is really a very good school, one of the top ten in the state.

Gentle Doctors

Before Obama Care, we had free insurance from my husband’s work. Now we pay somewhere around 500 dollars a month for everyone. This insurance does not cover all cases – you have to treat various small things like a cold at your own expense. You can do any check-up (medical examination) for free, this is included in the cost of insurance.

Insurance is still protection against serious health problems or major planned hospitalizations. For example, childbirth costs 15-20 thousand dollars, but I paid extra three thousand from my own pocket, and everything else was covered by insurance.

I gave birth at the University of Michigan Hospital. This is a solid medical institution, one of the best in the country. Accordingly, everything was at a very good level – and qualified doctors, and a single room, and attentive nurses.

It is worth talking about the attitude towards the patient separately. All the medical staff communicate very politely, very correctly and gently – sometimes it feels like they are choosing every word.

However, I didn’t go to doctors much in Russia, what’s here, so it’s hard for me to compare. But of course, the general level is higher here, and most importantly, there is a different attitude towards patients.

Home state – the best vacation spot

Summer in Michigan is very good – warm, many picturesque places to go. Michigan is called the state of a thousand lakes, and it’s true. Very beautiful views, wide choice of hotels. So we, as true Americans, support the economy of our native state, we rest here.

In winter, we are drawn to warmer climes, and we mainly choose the Caribbean. The cheapest and closest thing for us is to fly to Mexico or the Dominican Republic: about five and a half hours, direct flight, all inclusive …

Even in winter we go skiing and snowboarding. In the north of the state there is a Boyne Highlands resort – the mountains there are not very high, but you can come for two or three days (on weekends). If you get out further, then there is the famous resort of Aspen.

Vail Ski Resort, Colorado

Photo: courtesy of the subject

We’ve been to a lot of places in the States over the years. I liked it in California, Hawaii, Washington…

Holidays in Hawaii, the inscription in the sand was made by the author

Photo: provided by the hero of the material

In America, attractions are not the same as in Europe – not museums and monuments. The main attraction here is landscapes, nature.

We also visit Europe sometimes, but infrequently – still far away.

Russia, my doll house

My parents also moved to the States and live in a nearby town. I still have a brother in Moscow, but he is also thinking of moving somewhere.

I don’t often have special reasons to come to my homeland. Yes, and desires – as soon as you remember how long to fly, you will immediately change your mind.

In total, I have been to Russia three times since moving to the States. Met classmates and friends. The penultimate time I got right into that same Moscow summer smog in 2010, and now the whole family has come for the New Year holidays, they landed in 30-degree frosts. The city was very beautifully decorated, and despite the cold, we enjoyed walking around the center, were in the Kolomenskoye park, went to the theater. But it was terribly unusual for me in our “three-ruble note”, which once seemed so big – after our American home, it’s like a doll’s house.

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is the lowest paying job at Walt Disney Imagineering at $40,000 annually.

Walt Disney Imagineering employees earn $62,000 annually on average, or $30 per hour.

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How much does Disney Imagineers get paid?

No Comments on How much does Disney Imagineers get paid?Posted in Salary Guide By SamuelPosted on September 28, 2022September 28, 2022

The term “Disney Imagineers” signifies a wide range of abilities and occupations. Master planning, creative development, concept development, show writing, project management, research and advanced design, ride system, special events, multimedia planning, and interactive technology are some of the skill sets that fall under this category. Employees of Walt Disney Imagineering make an average of $90,138 per year. The annual wage range for Walt Disney Imagineers employees is between $54,833 and $144,000, which is a sizable salary range. All of this implies that the person can work as an engineer to make it all feasible, a designer to assist and produce the content for a show, or a qualified architect to aid in building a section of a park.  Here we will see about How much does Disney Imagineers get paid?

Let’s discuss all of it in detail.

More than 1,00,000 individuals are employed by The Walt Disney Company to carry out all facets of its operations. It was established that Disney is a major employer for those people who work at theme parks to those who create the graphics and design for some of the most talked-about movies of the year. Walt Disney Imagineering employees make an average salary of $90,138 annually. Employees at Walt Disney Imagineers can expect to get paid between $54,833 and $144,000 per year, which is a large compensation range. It helps to have an idea of how much the company pays for people wishing to work at Disney. 

How much does a Disney Imagineer earn?

The annual salary for employees of Walt Disney Imagineering is $90,138 on average. Employees that are working for Walt Disney Imagineers can expect to make anywhere from $54,833 and $144,000 a year, which is a significant salary range. The Walt Disney Company’s most of the Imagineering positions are typically blamed for these variations in the annual wages. Software engineers, architects, and concept artists are just a few of the many distinct positions available within the Imagineering section of the entire Walt Disney Company. The compensation for employees ranges for a few instances of Imagineering positions are listed below.

Software Engineer: It ranges between $62,000 and $138,000 annually.

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Technical Director: Between $48,000 to $163,000 per year, roughly.

Principal Architect: $88,000 to $176,000 per year, roughly.

Concept Artist: yearly salary of between $35,000 to $79,000.

Master planner: ranges annually between $56,000 and $131,000.

What is the pay-by-experience level for Disney Imagineers?

The job a person holds and the length of time they have been there both constitute a major factor in the income of a Disney Imagineer. For instance, the hourly wage for a Disney Imagineer intern ranges approximately between $23.12 on average to $28 and $20, respectively. On the other hand, the senior technical worker can earn a salary upwards of $100,000 per year, from the perspective of pay. It will rely on what the person’s position is and how much Disney needs them. Talking about technical employees reporting at around $90,000, engineers earn a salary of around $74,000, and if we consider the project coordinators, the overall average compensation is estimated at around $57,000.

Other perks Disney Imagineers get paid.

There are different perks and benefits which Disney Imagineers get. Some of them include

• Health & Wellness, Insurance- Health Insurance
• Financial & Retirement- 401K Plan
• Vacation & Paid Time off
• Discounts & Perks, Discount for Employee
• Family and Maternity & Paternity Leave.

Additionally, Free tickets were distributed to Disney Imagineers cast members twice a year, however, they are not usable for Tokyo’s parks because those are officially not owned by Disney. Only the Tokyo parks generate royalties for Disney, So most of the Disney cast members will not be offering discounts at the Tokyo parks. What Disney Imagineers receive exclusively are the rides during the period of R&D. The rides developed during R&D are only limited to Imagineers, which are occasionally on well-known Disney blogs. Other than that, there are few differences between the studios, regardless of work status.

Conclusion

Disney Imagineer is in charge of planning, creating, and erecting resorts, cruise ships, theme parks, and other Disney-related facilities. They primarily concern live entertainment. They don’t participate in the production of movies or television, but they design tangible objects that a person can see, touch, smell, as well as direct entry experiences. The average yearly salary for Walt Disney Imagineering employees is $90,138. There is a wide income range for Walt Disney Imagineers personnel, ranging from $54,833 to $144,000 each year. The average hourly pay for a Disney Imagineer intern is between $23.12 and $28, and $20, respectively.

Average The Walt Disney Company Salary By Location, Job Title, and Department

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$35,065yearly

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Highest Paying Jobs At The Walt Disney Company

While The Walt Disney Company employees earn an average yearly salary of $35,065, different roles can command different wages. Some of the positions that earn high wages at The Walt Disney Company include senior software engineer, consultant, business analyst, and finance analyst. A worker with the title senior software engineer salary at The Walt Disney Company can earn an average yearly salary of $167,171. Some of the other roles at The Walt Disney Company are merchandiser and cleaner. A worker with the title merchandiser at The Walt Disney Company earns an average salary of $28,533 per year.

Highest Paying Jobs At The Walt Disney Company

Rank	Job Title	Average The Walt Disney Company Salary	Hourly Rate
1	Senior Software Engineer	$167,171	$80. 37
2	Consultant	$105,977	$50.95
3	Business Analyst	$103,401	$49.71
4	Finance Analyst	$99,222	$47.70
5	Supervisor	$67,590	$32.50
6	Entertainer	$52,422	$25.20
7	Performer	$52,422	$25.20
8	Sous Chef	$48,999	$23.56
9	Trainer	$48,426	$23.28
10	Training Coordinator	$46,801	$22.50
11	Executive Assistant	$45,763	$22.00
12	Guest Services Manager	$45,289	$21.77
13	Food And Beverage Manager	$44,363	$21.33
14	Merchandise Coordinator	$41,564	$19.98
15	Campus Representative	$41,520	$19. 96
16	Photographer/Photo Editor	$40,899	$19.66
17	Merchandising Internship	$37,803	$18.17
18	Bus Driver	$37,078	$17.83
19	Cook	$35,694	$17.16
20	Concierge	$35,418	$17.03

Highest Paying The Walt Disney Company Competitor Salaries

Some of the competitors of The Walt Disney Company are Pixar Animation Studios, Lucasfilm, and Sony Pictures. Employees at Pixar Animation Studios earn more than most of the competition, with an average yearly salary of $83,323. The salaries at Lucasfilm average $76,776 per year, and the salaries at Sony Pictures come in at $72,264 per year.

Salaries By The Walt Disney Company Competitors

Rank	Company Name	Zippia Score	Average Salary
1	Pixar Animation Studios	4. 6	$83,323
2	Lucasfilm	4.8	$76,776
3	Sony Pictures	4.8	$72,264
4	The Jim Henson Company	4.3	$57,961
5	News	4.5	$57,518
6	Splaat	3.4	$55,263
7	ViacomCBS	4.8	$51,996
8	Disney Theatrical Group	4.3	$45,441
9	The Walt Disney Family Museum	3.7	$39,321
10	Hoop Retail Stores, LLC	4.2	$37,280

Average Pay By State For The Walt Disney Company

Rank	State	Average The Walt Disney Company Salary	Hourly Rate
1	California	$41,713	$20.05
2	Washington	$39,637	$19. 06
3	New York	$37,897	$18.22
4	Connecticut	$37,775	$18.16
5	Hawaii	$36,178	$17.39
6	Illinois	$34,703	$16.68
7	Arizona	$33,980	$16.34
8	Florida	$30,717	$14.77

How Much Does The Walt Disney Company Pay By Location?

When choosing a place to work, it’s important to factor in the cost of living when negotiating a salary. Looking at our data, we can see that employees at The Walt Disney Company earn more in some areas than others. The city with the highest average salary is Anaheim, CA, where employees earn an average salary of $41,295. The Walt Disney Company Employees in Seattle, WA don’t earn quite as much. The median salary in Seattle, WA is $39,716.

Salaries By Location At The Walt Disney Company

Rank	Location	Average The Walt Disney Company Salary	Hourly Rate
1	Anaheim, CA	$41,295	$19. 85
2	Seattle, WA	$39,716	$19.09
3	Bristol, CT	$37,961	$18.25
4	New York, NY	$37,802	$18.17
5	Black Hawk, CO	$36,577	$17.59
6	Henderson, NV	$35,436	$17.04
7	Salt Lake City, UT	$35,359	$17.00
8	Springfield, IL	$34,035	$16.36
9	Phoenix, AZ	$33,956	$16.33
10	San Antonio, TX	$33,381	$16.05
11	Springfield, MO	$33,217	$15.97
12	Richmond, VA	$31,714	$15.25
13	Louisville, KY	$31,163	$14.98
14	Nashville, TN	$31,065	$14.94
15	Atlanta, GA	$31,063	$14. 93
16	Pope, MS	$30,661	$14.74
17	Orlando, FL	$30,647	$14.73
18	Hilton Head Island, SC	$29,948	$14.40
19	Charlotte, NC	$29,100	$13.99

The Walt Disney Company Salaries By Department

Our data shows that different departments at The Walt Disney Company pay different salaries. Based on our analysis, the employees in engineering earn salaries at The Walt Disney Company that are well above average, with yearly earnings averaging $105,900. The it organizational function also pays relatively high compared to other departments, where employees earn $92,796. Departments that don’t pay as well at The Walt Disney Company include the customer service and plant/manufacturing organizational functions, with employees earning $31,515 and $32,198, respectively.

Salaries By Department At The Walt Disney Company

Rank	Department	Average The Walt Disney Company Salary	Hourly Rate
1	Engineering	$105,900	$50. 91
2	IT	$92,796	$44.61
3	Finance	$88,252	$42.43
4	Marketing	$55,897	$26.87
5	Human Resources	$53,479	$25.71
6	Art/Design	$47,777	$22.97
7	Education	$47,705	$22.94
8	Sports/Entertainment	$46,255	$22.24
9	Administrative	$40,664	$19.55
10	Sales	$36,284	$17.44
11	Non Profit/Government	$35,317	$16.98
12	Retail	$34,248	$16.47
13	Facilities	$33,647	$16.18
14	Hospitality/Service	$32,618	$15.68
15	Plant/Manufacturing	$32,199	$15.48
16	Customer Service	$31,515	$15. 15

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Best Paying The Walt Disney Company Hospitality/Service Position Salaries

Rank	Position	Average The Walt Disney Company Salary	Hourly Rate
1	Sous Chef	$48,999	$23.56
2	Pastry Chef Assistant	$44,452	$21.37
3	Food And Beverage Manager	$44,363	$21.33
4	Restaurant Manager	$43,613	$20.97
5	Recreation Coordinator	$39,751	$19.11
6	Bus Driver	$37,078	$17.83
7	Cook	$35,694	$17.16
8	Bell Captain	$35,544	$17.09
9	Concierge	$35,418	$17.03
10	Reservation Specialist	$35,196	$16. 92
11	Cosmetologist	$34,603	$16.64
12	Attractions Host	$34,227	$16.46
13	Server	$32,059	$15.41
14	Tour Guide	$31,533	$15.16
15	Food Service Worker	$30,901	$14.86
16	Front Desk Agent	$30,758	$14.79
17	Busser	$30,562	$14.69
18	Barista	$30,554	$14.69
19	Hostess	$30,416	$14.62
20	Reservations Agent	$30,344	$14.59

Best Paying The Walt Disney Company Plant/Manufacturing Position Salaries

Rank	Position	Average The Walt Disney Company Salary	Hourly Rate
1	Culinary Internship	$38,834	$18. 67
2	Culinary Assistant	$37,644	$18.10
3	Line Cook	$35,998	$17.31
4	Ride Operator	$34,367	$16.52
5	Ship Steward	$33,982	$16.34
6	Cast Member	$31,855	$15.31
7	Ride Attendant	$29,687	$14.27

Best Paying The Walt Disney Company Non Profit/Government Position Salaries

Rank	Position	Average The Walt Disney Company Salary	Hourly Rate
1	Crew Chief	$52,440	$25.21
2	Street Sweeper Operator	$52,354	$25.17
3	Boat Captain	$46,743	$22.47
4	Operations Internship	$35,796	$17.21
5	College Program Internship	$35,101	$16. 88

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Frequently Asked Questions About The Walt Disney Company Salaries

Is the pay good at The Walt Disney Company?

No, the pay is not good at The Walt Disney Company. Compared to the industry average of $57,714 per year, the average annual salary at The Walt Disney Company is $35,065, which is 39.24% lower.

What is the starting pay at The Walt Disney Company?

The starting pay at The Walt Disney Company is $19,000 per year, or $9.13 per hour.

How much does The Walt Disney Company pay compared to ViacomCBS?

The Walt Disney Company pays $35,065 per year on average compared to ViacomCBS which pays $51,996. That works out to $16.86 per hour at The Walt Disney Company, compared to $25.00 per hour at ViacomCBS.

How much does The Walt Disney Company pay an hour?

The Walt Disney Company pays $16.86 an hour, on average.

What is the salary of the CEO of Disney?

The salary of the CEO of Disney is $32. 5 million. Bob Chapek is the current CEO of Disney. His salary doubled from 2020 and 2021.

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Zippia gives an in-depth look into the details of The Walt Disney Company, including salaries, political affiliations, employee data, and more, in order to inform job seekers about The Walt Disney Company. The employee data is based on information from people who have self-reported their past or current employments at The Walt Disney Company. The data on this page is also based on data sources collected from public and open data sources on the Internet and other locations, as well as proprietary data we licensed from other companies. Sources of data may include, but are not limited to, the BLS, company filings, estimates based on those filings, h2B filings, and other public and private datasets. While we have made attempts to ensure that the information displayed are correct, Zippia is not responsible for any errors or omissions or for the results obtained from the use of this information. None of the information on this page has been provided or approved by The Walt Disney Company. The data presented on this page does not represent the view of The Walt Disney Company and its employees or that of Zippia.

The Walt Disney Company may also be known as or be related to Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio (1923–1926) The Walt Disney Studio (1926–1929) Walt Disney Productions (1929–1986), The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Co Ltd and Disney.

A romantic from the big road: how a designer from Tomsk makes money on photographs of non-existent people

In 2018, Ivan Boyko, a native of Tomsk, launched a photo stock with people’s faces Generated photos. Its distinguishing feature is that none of the faces exist in reality – they were generated by neural networks. Why is a Russian living in Argentina hunting for the faces of people around the world and creating fake characters?

“Investors consistently call us once a month. I say over and over again: we do not rise (we attract investments – Forbe s), but it will be nice to meet you. We already have money that we don’t know what to do with,” says Icons8 founder Ivan Boyko. Since 2018, he has been developing the Generated photos photo stock, in which all the pictures are generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

Now the database contains more than 2 million photos. Among the users of the stock there are a dating service, a Chinese cereal manufacturer, and police departments. According to its own data, the startup grows by 500 new customers and earns an average of $15,000 per month. A monthly subscription to the stock costs $20, but users can get photos for free if they use the photos for non-commercial purposes. Universities that conduct academic research also receive free access.

The startup is being developed with funds from Boyko’s main business, Icons8 design agency. Boyko launched the agency back in 2003: initially it specialized in creating web interfaces and icons, later it began to deal with stock illustrations and photographs. According to Boyko, almost two decades after the start, the business’s revenue is growing by 40% annually, in 2020 it amounted to $2.1 million. who enter into individual contracts with the agency (among them – Google and Microsoft). Another 10% comes from advertising – companies can place banners on the agency’s website.

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“Wow, icons”

Ivan Boyko chats with Forbes via video link, sitting on a sun lounger near the coast in the green thickets. Eight years ago, he moved from Moscow to Buenos Aires, where he met his second wife. Since then, for most of the year, the vagabondila couple (spent on the road – Forbes ), and returned to Argentina only for the summer. “I didn’t want to settle down, because traveling helps to stay in a state of discomfort, and it saves you from procrastination,” the entrepreneur explains. However, due to the closure of the borders, travel became impossible and the couple bought a house in the resort town of Karilo. It is still undergoing renovations, so the interview is periodically interrupted due to the noise of work.

Boyko was born in Tomsk, where he graduated from art school with honors and in 1995 entered Tomsk State University as a developer. Becoming a programmer seemed to him a more promising option than a career as an artist. In July 1998, in his third year, he moved to Moscow and got a job as an interface designer in the Moscow design studio AlterMedia. Two months later, the company closed and Boyko went to work for Parallels, a software development company. In four years at the agency, he grew from an ordinary designer to a senior one and built the interface development department from scratch.

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In early 2003, he left Parallels and began to develop as a freelancer. A few months before his dismissal, Boyko launched the VisualPharm website, where he posted the portfolio accumulated during his work. In addition to interfaces, the designer created icons. Tiny images of magnifiers, envelopes, and other items were needed by the Parallels team to better demonstrate finished interfaces to customers. As a result, Boyko realized that the icons drawn by him were of more interest to the market than the services of a web designer. “Everyone wrote:“ Wow, icons ‎, well, I started making icons, ”recalls the entrepreneur.

The next year he worked in his rented apartment. Leaving a permanent job, Boyko thought that freelancing would cut his income four times – from $2,000 to $500. Therefore, for the sake of economy, I rented the second bedroom in a rented apartment to a friend of the New Zealander. “My first wife was a model. She then went to Japan,” says Boyko. I was left alone in a two-room apartment. It cost $400 a month. With the New Zealander we paid in half. I figured that another $300 would be enough to pay for internet, food, rent.”‎

But already in the first month, the entrepreneur, according to him, began to earn “much more” due to the icons. In the same 2003, he hired his first employee. For a salary of $ 400, she processed incoming orders – the entrepreneur could no longer cope with the flow. A year later, Boyko’s team already had five people working, he rented an office on Leningradsky Prospekt next to the Trachtenberg Cafe of radio host Roman Trakhtenberg, and registered the company.

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For the first 10 years, Boyko’s team has been creating customized icons for clients’ requests. Among them were, for example, General Electric and Europol. The latter asked to draw icons with images of weapons and drugs. The agency did not advertise, clients themselves found it on the Internet, the entrepreneur claims: “Our task was to work in such a way that they would stay.”

In 2012, Boyko refocused on stock icons. “The subjects were often repeated. And the artist had to redraw everything all over again, it was tiring,” he explains. The first set of 200 icons was drawn by the artist Alexander Khristoforov, who by that time had been working for the company for six years. Boyko’s team chose the Metro style for them, which was used in the Windows 8 operating system. “It just appeared that year,” says Khristoforov. “And we were trying so hard to get customers who wanted their apps to feel like home next to new apps from Microsoft.” The stock was named Icons8, after the new Windows operating system.

The team began distributing icons for free, in return, the user had to provide a link to the agency’s website on their website — thanks to the links, the website was better indexed by browsers. “Then people themselves began to offer: come on without authorship, come on with money. We wrote on the site that you can not indicate authorship for $ 99, and in the first month we earned $ 1,200, ”recalls Boyko.

Two years later, he renamed the company to Icons8, and in 2016 he moved to the United States, because, according to him, there is the largest market for icons, affordable fintech solutions and business support programs‎.

Zombies instead of people

In 2017, in addition to icons, the agency began creating illustrations. “We work for interface designers. It happens that you need to show the error in full screen. With the icon it turned out to be empty and boring, and we created a free set of illustrations for such errors: “Page not found”, “No Internet” and so on. That is why the project is still called Ouch!”, says Boyko. Then it became clear that people use illustrations in other situations as well, so the agency assigned a team that works on illustrations all the time.

In April 2018, Boyko launched a paid stock with photos of Moose. He was prompted to do this by a conversation with a friend, Anton Zykin, the CEO of the Clay agency from San Francisco, which develops applications. “We ate borscht and he said that the topic of photostock has not been exhausted, that for each project his team spends $3,000 per photo,” says Boyko. After the conversation, he studied several popular photo stocks – Unsplash, Pexels, Stocksy, Shutterstock and others – and found that they lack studio photos, because they cannot be taken casually or while traveling – it is expensive and troublesome.

Data leakage and the risk of license revocation: banks named the main threats from cyber attacks In the first, the entrepreneur worked with his wife – he filmed, and she conducted castings and directed the shooting. “There we ran the process, looked at what worked, what didn’t,” the entrepreneur recalls. Four full-time employees worked in the Moscow studio: a producer, a photographer, a make-up artist and a stylist. They filmed three times a week: twice they photographed scenes with models (for example, hiking trips), once they photographed various objects. 1000-2000 shots came out at a time.