Being a Life Guard

Being a Life Guard isn't all that easy anymore. I use to think that this job was the easiest job on the planet! I work at three pools... Yeah, I have no life pretty much. Although this summer I am basically only working at one of those pools! Murray Rec center, Taylorsville Outdoor, and Seven Peaks Salt Lake. Guess which one I work at the most. Yepp, you called it, Seven Peaks. The other two pools I am still on the Pay Roll, but for the summer just a SUB which means, I probably won't be working at T-ville very much at all this year, since it is only a Summer Job. :/ That really makes me sad because that is one of my most Favorite places to work, I LOVE the people there, I Love the facility (Except Dive Tank) and all that wonderful stuff! :) Murray, is also fun! I use to be the 2nd youngest person there but the Finally hired some newbies and I am not the almost youngest anymore! Woot! That means, that our age group for the guards ranges mostly from 16-
30 but in reality it goes like 16-60 since we have one really really old guy who guards there. Now, on word to the tough job. If I would have worked at Seven Peaks Provo life would have been like ten thousand times easier other then that fact my pay checks would have all been going to the gas driving down there... They get to live the dream other then the fact that my brother (an EMT down at Provo) says that most of the guards he wants to kill or they aren't really that good of a guard. Now, you get to Salt Lake, we may not peak out as high as the patrons Provo gets but we still get at least 6,000-7,000 every day, Provo peaks out around 10,000. Anyway the way we do things is so much harder! Provo has about 40 more guards then we do, so they get to live the dream life, and it's all super easy! Us? No not so much we have about 70-80 guards I might be off a little but that's about where we are at. Anyways it's to the point that we only get 4 days off the entire summer, this basically is a full time job for me now... GAH! I work like 30-40 hours a week! I would be fine with that except people don't like to rotate correctly if you are a shallow guard. (Hold it, let me explain Shallow and Deep Guards. Shallow guards pretty much run the slides and kiddie pools, deep guards run the wave pool and Monsoon Lagoon ((a pool that you can dive and stuff drop you in))) When ever I am a shallow guard I am ALWAYS stuck on some spot for longer than the rotation should be, take the very first day. If I would have been rotated on time I would have been perfectly okay, normal rotations are 30 minutes each stand and you are usually up a total of 2-2.5 hours. But that day I kept getting rotated passed. I was on top of a slide dispatch that has three slides and right in the sun, they left me up there for 3 hours, I had sunscreen on at first, but it all burnt off and I got burned... Bad! I still had another hour up after I FINALLY was rotated...  (Picture up in the right corner) It doesn't look that bad there but if you notice on my left shoulder I got blisters, they were HUGE the next day. I finally (after my burns were healed) Got the chance to be able to be a deep guard! Great feeling, everything goes perfect and you get to chill with the Supervisors and the EMTs :) Although I still Always get rotated late when I have an AM shift, you are suppose to get off at 3:30 but I never do... It's always 4 or 4:30 by the time I am rotated, no matter where I am. But, my time has come and I must now drive fast out to Kearns for Water Polo. So if you happen to have read my long story, thank you and hopefully you read more of my stuff when I start to get posting! :)