After Sleeping Beauty was completed in 1957, Disney laid off Cobb and he spent the next three years in various jobs — mail carrier, assembler in a door factory, sign painter's assistant — until he was drafted in 1960 into the US Army.
Despois de que se terminase Sleeping Beauty en 1957, Disney despediu a Cobb e pasou o seguintes tres anos en varios traballos: portador de correo, ensamblador nunha fábrica de portas, asistente de rotulista, ata que foi recrutado en 1960 no exército estadounidense.