Jessie Barndt was walking to class at UW-Madison one day when she saw her destiny drive by.
It was shaped like a hot dog.
Barndt, 23, followed the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile to a career fair where a recruiter persuaded her to apply for a job criss-crossing the country in the driver's seat of a 27-foot-long fiberglass hot dog.
"It's a huge deal," said the peppy Barndt, who is from Madison and got a degree in international business and management and human resources. "Growing up with this in my backyard, you always see the Wienermobile. It's just so exciting."
On Friday, she graduated from Hot Dog High, a three-week boot camp where she and 11 other recent college graduates learned how to maneuver the Wienermobile, promote Oscar Mayer products and beef up on puns like "Have a bun-derful day," and "Frank you very much."
The job is highly competitive. It turns out, everyone does wish they were an Oscar Mayer wiener — or at least they wish they could drive one.
More than 1,000 college seniors from across the country apply for 12 spots each year, according to Ed Roland, a marketing manager with Kraft Foods, the parent company of Madison-based Oscar Mayer. He wouldn't own up to the salary but said it's a competitive starting wage.
Read more: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/article_99fa24e0-b735-11e1-9ca2-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz1y0sK8XR9
It was shaped like a hot dog.
Barndt, 23, followed the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile to a career fair where a recruiter persuaded her to apply for a job criss-crossing the country in the driver's seat of a 27-foot-long fiberglass hot dog.
"It's a huge deal," said the peppy Barndt, who is from Madison and got a degree in international business and management and human resources. "Growing up with this in my backyard, you always see the Wienermobile. It's just so exciting."
On Friday, she graduated from Hot Dog High, a three-week boot camp where she and 11 other recent college graduates learned how to maneuver the Wienermobile, promote Oscar Mayer products and beef up on puns like "Have a bun-derful day," and "Frank you very much."
The job is highly competitive. It turns out, everyone does wish they were an Oscar Mayer wiener — or at least they wish they could drive one.
More than 1,000 college seniors from across the country apply for 12 spots each year, according to Ed Roland, a marketing manager with Kraft Foods, the parent company of Madison-based Oscar Mayer. He wouldn't own up to the salary but said it's a competitive starting wage.
Read more: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/article_99fa24e0-b735-11e1-9ca2-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz1y0sK8XR9
Since moving to Las Vegas, I have seen the Weinermobile 1 time in the past 6 years, so it would be nice to see them again.
When I lived in Wisconsin, I would see the Weinermobile fairly often, so I have gone through Weinermobile withdrawal symptoms.
Now, on the other hand, I am not sure why anybody would this think this was a good idea:
The $32,000 per-year progressive school founded by the Blue Man Group has come under scrutiny by parents, who claim their kids are barely learning to read, the New York Post reports.
The Blue School, a private school located in New York City's Financial District, has no books and no tests and is facing an exodus of students and teachers.
One mother complained to the Post that the school is “unstructured.” She is pulling her son at the end of the school year, as are the parents of four of her son’s first-grade classmates. Parents also claim that their children are not prepared to take tests and are bored with nothing to do in school.
“A majority of my Upper East Side clients, if they took a look down there, their heads would explode,” education adviser Terri Decker of Smart City Kids told the Post. “Literally, their brains would be on the pavement.”
The Blue School was originally founded as a play group by members of the theater troupe and their wives in 2006. It received its independent-school charter in 2009. The founders reportedly started the school so they could send their own children to a school that was creative enough for them. A letter from co-founder Matt Goldman on the school’s website describes the institution as a “healthy, warm, safe, nurturing environment where community is paramount and where children’s interactions between classes is just as important as what happens during classes.”
According to the Post, school officials say students decide their own curriculum and have no predetermined arrival time. Currently, the school includes grades K-3, and a fourth grade is being added next year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/blue-man-group-school-scr_n_1594496.html
K-3 kids get to start whenever the parents feel like bringing the kids to school? But come on, it should be no surprise that the school is unstructured. Just think if the school has the Blue Man Group style of education: no talking, dressing up in black clothes and a blue mask, paint pictures by spitting paint, throwing marshmallows at each other and mime.
So, I wish I could have gone to Hot Dog High but am very glad I was not sent to the Blue Man group School.
The Blue School, a private school located in New York City's Financial District, has no books and no tests and is facing an exodus of students and teachers.
One mother complained to the Post that the school is “unstructured.” She is pulling her son at the end of the school year, as are the parents of four of her son’s first-grade classmates. Parents also claim that their children are not prepared to take tests and are bored with nothing to do in school.
“A majority of my Upper East Side clients, if they took a look down there, their heads would explode,” education adviser Terri Decker of Smart City Kids told the Post. “Literally, their brains would be on the pavement.”
The Blue School was originally founded as a play group by members of the theater troupe and their wives in 2006. It received its independent-school charter in 2009. The founders reportedly started the school so they could send their own children to a school that was creative enough for them. A letter from co-founder Matt Goldman on the school’s website describes the institution as a “healthy, warm, safe, nurturing environment where community is paramount and where children’s interactions between classes is just as important as what happens during classes.”
According to the Post, school officials say students decide their own curriculum and have no predetermined arrival time. Currently, the school includes grades K-3, and a fourth grade is being added next year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/blue-man-group-school-scr_n_1594496.html
So, I wish I could have gone to Hot Dog High but am very glad I was not sent to the Blue Man group School.
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