Life Guarding

I've noticed that my past few blogs I've been soft of complaining about something. I've also noticed that it's a lot easier to write 350 words when you are complaining about something. For this blog I'm not really going to complain, but I'm going to write about my job as a lifeguard at a country club pool. To start off, life guarding is a job, although many will disagree, just for very lazy people. it consist of siting for extended periods of time while yelling at kids and taking crap from parents (sometimes.) It has made me realize how evil children can be, although when I was a kid, I was the little bastard that wouldn't stop running around the damn pool despite being told not to constantly. Although when we actually do have to do our job, which would be saving someones life, it kicks the shit out of any non-internship summer job because we just saved a persons life. But that rarely happens, I've only had to pull a few kids out who's parents were too stupid to realize that a two year old can't quite swim. That really only happens at the indoor pool at the YMCA. The parents at the country club are a little smarter than that. The worst days, however, are when I go out the night before, and the next day at work ends up being a special day where every kid that belongs to the club are there. I would have a headache out the waazoo, and there would be kids everywhere screaming and having too much fun for my liking. But I still like the job. I like being outside all the time and I work with a lot of fun people. The pay is alright, it's enough to get me by and I'm not a very big spender so it normally lasts me. My favorite days are when I have to pull a double shift, which means I'm there all day, and it begins to rain very early so no one shows up and me and the people working just chill in the guard shack and basically get hours for free. Sometimes the rain will stop long enough for people to start coming so we can't close up early, but then it starts to rain again so they leave and we have to stay until closing. So I basically get paid for a full day of absolutely nothing. It's a pretty legit job when you aren't really doing anything else.