Summer jobs may range in various ways, from farming on family land to sacking groceries at the local store. Embarking in high school, most students want to find a summer job that would be enjoyable for three months and that would pay fairly decent. Working as a lifeguard comes with advantages and disadvantages, but all in all the summer job is easy and fun for teenagers. Moreover, lifeguarding teaches great skills to teenagers that they can later on use to help them in life and build friendships with other guards that last a lifetime. The first step in becoming a lifeguard is the application process. The lifeguard job is appointed by the city, therefore the application and interview is held at City Hall. The application process is more …show more content…
These films consume most of the morning of training, but once the films have finished, the in-water tests begin. The pool training and testing is the most difficult and can make or break a guard. In-water testing consists of three exams; swimming a 500, retrieving a brick, and treading water. When swimming the 500, a trainee can use whatever stroke they'd like and goggles as oppose to the other tests. Retrieving the brick can be strenuous, especially when the black brick is dropped on the black line. Diving down into the 13 foot pool to recover a camouflaged object, then backstroking with the brick on your chest above water signifies what saving a submerged victim would resemble. Personally, treading water for three minutes was the hardest part, solely because trainees could not use hands to keep a steady pace. After finishing the water tests, the training portion then begins. For instance, we learned in-water back-boarding, saving submerged or struggling victims, deep water saving, and how to enter the pool depending on the victim’s status. If the swimmer is immobile and floating atop the water, for example, guards are to enter the water slowly to decrease the chance of paralysis. After learning and acquiring skills in the water, we then learn proper CPR depending on the status of the victim. One of the most …show more content…
Meeting your co-workers and applying the skills you learned in training months before in front of bosses can be extremely nerve-wrecking. The aquatic staff begins working three weeks prior to the opening to prepare the pool. Due to the pool being abandoned all but three months out of the year, a large amount of dirt is accumulated throughout the concession stand, restrooms, guard rooms and office therefore, at least three days are spent power washing the entire building. Thankfully, all of the important documents and items in the pool house are covered to prevent damage from the dirt and dust. The most steroids task of cleaning is dragging out everything from storage and cleaning the pool gear. Unfortunately, the pool has at least 30 tanning chairs and six tables, each with chairs, that guards drag out of storage, clean, and finally place them in their spots in which they would stay for three months. Furthermore, the cleaning is one of the strenuous parts of the job, but once that is done the fun activities
You have to be enlisted in the U.S. Navy and you need to have permission from your commanders. You have to be a least 17-28 years old. Waivers for men from age 29-30 are available for highly qualified candidates. You need to have a birth certificate, social security, high school diploma, good eyesight and you can't be colorblind and you have to be a U.S. citizen. To get a Navy contract, you need to take the ASVAB test, get a physical and get a background screening at the Military Endurance Processing Station. Once you done that, you need to get a Navy SEAL contract. Once you have signed the contract, you are eligible to take the PST. Once you pass the PST. your recruiter or mentor will request a reclassification for you into the SEAL program. Hiring a mentor will help you break mental and physical barriers, so it can prepare you for your training. (Navy SEALs: Special Operations for the U.S. Navy.
The applicant is currently employed as a Non Career Lifeguard for the City of Long Beach Fire Department- Marine Division.
The First five weeks the student’s learn life saving, knot tying, underwater knot tying, basic first aid, and surf passages in small inflatable boats. Along with this is a 50-yard underwater swim, which must be completed and the students are often revived when they pass out. Also throughout out the whole six months of BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition School), the Seal Teams go through many torturous events and lessons. One of these being surf torture. This is where the entire class must wade into the surf zone to their waistline, then sit down with arms linked. Just to let you know the water in Coronado, California never gets above sixty-eight degrees during the summer and fifty-eight degrees during the winter. There the men with linked arms will sit there for hours at a time, soon the cold sucks out all of their body warmth and the whole class is shivering in unison as the waves crash over there heads.
Forty hands shot up pointing towards the bottom of the old twisty slide following the long dreadful whistle no one ever wants to hear. Two other lifeguards and I jumped up off the shaded break bench and rushed towards the scene with the heavy backboard and AED bag in hand. The routine save played like a movie through my head as I arrived. I stopped. I knew from there on out this wasn't going to be emotionally an easy save. It wasn't a child who swallowed too much water or an adult who got nervous because they forgot how to swim, it was a fellow lifeguard, a friend.
After stretching, we went back inside the main pool area where we warmed up more by swimming laps in the JV pool. Compared to the outdoors, the pool was warm. However, it was also about the temperature I like drinking my water; ice water that is. We swam a few laps, practiced our starting dives, and went over the competition order all by or in the JV pool. Soon enough, the competition
Have you ever accidentally hit an Olympic gold medalist in the face? Hopefully you haven’t... Unfortunately, I have. It was a warm, summer day at the beach club where I work. The waves were crashing down in the ocean several yards away, and dozens of high-energy children and chronically-nervous parents were enjoying the last week of summer before the school year started. Lifeguarding here was my first job ever, and up to this point it had been going great.
I am confronted with challenges every summer day as a supervisor at the world-renowned Texas waterpark, Schlitterbahn. I work closely with children of all ages, families, lifeguards, managers, and other staff members. On any given morning, I am unable to anticipate the obstacles that will confront me and the problem solving strategies I will be forced to call into action.
The United States Coast Guard is a government law enforcement agency and is also one of the five military forces at the same time (U.S. Coast Guard and Coast Guard Reserve, 2016). The Coast Guard is one of the armed military force that protects the United States and is the only military organization within the Department of Homeland Security. The Coast Guard has about 56,000 members that are serving and protecting the United States. All of the people that are serving in the Coast Guard are United States citizen. Also, all members that join the Coast Guard must be between the ages of seventeen to twenty-seven. Enlisted members of the Coast Guard earn an initial salary of approximately twenty thousand dollars a year. As part of the benefit packages, all members in the coast guard also get 30 days of paid vacation, free housing and free meals that are included at the assigned stations. The men and women that are in the Coast Guard receive free medical attention at no cost. To join the Coast Guard, people must attend an eight-week boot camp that is held in Cape May, New Jersey (U.S. Coast Guard, n.d.). The United States Coast Guard also has a schooling program that they call the Coast Guard Academy. The Coast Guard’s schooling program is the smallest out of all the other military schooling programs. The Coast Guard Academy is held in New London, Connecticut and was founded in 1876. Every year about 300 new cadets
I want to be a Junior Swim Coach because I want to help teach the young swimmers not only how to swim, but to have fun while they are doing it. I also want to be a Junior Swim Coach because I remember how much I learned from my junior coaches and how much fun it was being on the Junior Swim Team. Because of this, I would like to give every Junior Swimmer the same experience I had. I think I am a good fit for the program because I work very well with kids. I am able to have fun with them and be a leader to them at the same time. I believe that having an “out-of-the-water” relationship with the kids I coach is a vital quality in being a good coach and mentor. I think I am able to have a good relationship with the kids and bond with them while
As one young person was heard to remark, “You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without a job.” That dilemma can be overcome, however, by starting work early in life and by accepting simpler jobs that have no minimum age limit and do not require experience. Jobs Teens Can Do Begin early at jobs that may not pay especially well but help to establish a working track record: delivering newspapers, babysitting, mowing lawns, assisting with gardening, and the like. Use these work experiences as springboards for such later jobs as sales clerks, gas station attendant, fast-food worker, lifeguard, playground supervisor assistant, and office staff assistant (after you have developed basic office skills). As you progress through these work exploration experiences, try increasingly to get jobs that have some relationship to your career plans.
My cousin, Ramon Nieves, who was seventeen at the moment, managed to get hired on as well. However, he lied about his age and applied as if he were eighteen. Before getting hired, we had to take the Basic Plus; exams done by computer which first informed one about the possible dangers, surrounding environment, safety, and how to react in case of an emergency. And after viewing and hearing the videos, using headphones to listen individually, there were multiple choice exams that reviewed what had been viewed. The Basic Plus has to be renewed every year, and once a name entered the system shall it remain forever. Every plant also requires its individual...
Summer jobs like these are very common for teens in this community. Most kids that take these jobs develop their work ethic that way, but others don't make it very long in this field because they aren't physically able to do it. If the wellness center was to be open to them, they could make more money and develop a better work ethic.
When you have a pool you can clean it up you’re own way. If you have a dirty pool that can have a great impact on you and your customers. Your customers wouldn’t want a foul pool. Many pool all over the world aren’t that clean, but you would want yours to be very clean
Public safety covers a wide variety of people and organizations, but carries one common theme and that is, the public’s safety. This course has broadened my knowledge on the many roles that make the public safety sector go around and the role the public plays in it as well. My thoughts before the course were close minded and to the point. I quickly realized that policing is not as cut and dry as I once portrayed it to be. Society is always changing and adapting, and it is the job of the those in public safety to adapt and change with it. The mindset that I grew up with, in rural Saskatchewan, was the police are good people and you will only need to deal with them if you break the law or see someone break the law. My answers in the module 1 survey reflected my upbringing. My first thought for
A security guard works in any building or area that needs protection from theft, fire, vandalism, and illegal entry. For every security guards job it depends on where they live and work. Every security guard has a different task. Some work in airports. If you work in an airport you might have to search travelers for weapons, explosives, or drugs. They may have also check cargo for illegal items. There are security guards that work museums and art galleries. These security guards have to make sure no one steals, damages, or touches artwork or historical artifacts. They also help people if they have questions and bring people to safety in case if there is a fire or an earthquake. In office buildings and factories, security guards have to make