Importance Of Lifeguards

After working for the City of Lakewood as a lifeguard for 4 years it has helped me grow up and develop skills to provide a successful team-working environment, and has helped me find traits of myself to accomplish my goals in life. 2012 was my first year as a lifeguard and I was working at Morse Park. I struggled at first during in-service especially on choking victims, but the significant part of that summer was the audit. Which is where the city does a practice scenarios where lifeguards perform their rescue skills with people and manager witnessing the entire thing, but to make this story more understanding you have to visualize the scene. In the far left hand corner of Morse is a blue slide that loops around twice, and it all started with a guy going down the slide head first, and of course with my luck I was the guard sitting in the chair closet to

When he came out of the slide he was face down passive. I slide in and performed the appropriate skills by preventing his head from moving. The secondary guard Jess helped me back broad him. After EMS arrived the audit ended, and my managers were impressed with skills. My second summer wasn’t as significant the only difference was I had become a water safety instructor in the fall, but I always seemed to impress my managers because I got a 50-cent raise at the end of the summer. Halfway through my third summer I was prompted to a manager. It was tricky figuring out the pump room and chemicals, and being 16 with a lot of authority was a thing to notice in the city. In the past couple of years there are 5 traits of myself that I have developed from working for the city. The first one is obvious which are my leadership skills. I mean my managers must of saw something in me to be prompted to an MOD, and being a role model and provide the skills to successfully run a team with limited flaws. I present myself as a jokester in which I like making people smile if they’re having a rough