A Lifeguard: A Personal Narrative Of My Life

My first job is at a trucking company located in Derry. Adding a job to my schedule now was not too stressful because it was only the first week of my junior year. Also by now in high school everything is predictable the first few days of instruction. We start the first few days of instruction going over the course material and expectations. Thus, letting me have more free time in the afternoon the first week. I started my first shift on a Monday, it was so hot outside. I can remember seeing the heat rise off of the truck hoods. I restored headlights and washed a couple of the box trucks there for the day. I was surprised how easy this was, and remember going home and telling my parents “This is the easiest job ever”. I was beginning to get a taste of what it is like to have a job.

I realized after being able to handle an angry customer positively, I have matured working at Wendy’s. To be able to not step out of character when someone you don’t know is yelling at you because of tomatoes is huge. Having a job helped me practice professional skills. I also had to learn to save money because the same weekend I got my check I spent half of it. My first job made me feel like a complete adult, and although it was stressful, maturing is a step in life I knew I was going to face soon

In the short story Lifeguard, Barbara Scott delineates Chris as a lifeguard at the Bridgeland Community Swimming Pool. A boy named Mike saw Chris dive, from thenceforth he venerated him, Mike made impressing Chris his number one precedence. Be that as it may, Chris was not so affable, one particular instance where this was manifest would be when Chris had completely gone off on Mike, denigrating and insulting him. Mike had not shown up at the pool for a while after that; this led to Chris believing that he was the cause of him not showing up. However, that was not the case at all Mike had in fact been in a car accident with his parents on the way to visit his relatives in Saskatchewan. This unfortunate event caused Mike’s mother to die immediately, his father to die a couple of days after that, and Mike to fall into this state of paralysis which had severe effects on his mental and physical state after the accident. Albeit this event was greatly grieved and sorrowful it essentially created a forgiving and protective custodianship between the two characters. For there were many instances throughout this short story where I was able to make connections to my identity personally and other outside correlations. To be exact, I will give an articulate analysis towards the quote “I start to walk away. But he’s a persistent guy and you’ve got to admit he doesn't take an insult.” and the impact it has on me personally. Secondly, I will connect the quote “Like I promised, I watch him, every day,...” to a youth audience fictional literature piece. Finally, I will express my thoughts on the statement “Leave me alone, you little geek. Just clear off and leave me alone!” towards teenage attitudes and society today.

One of the first jobs I ever got when I was younger was being a cashier at a Save- a Lot grocery store. I was 15 years old and I absolutely loved that job.

I started lifeguarding because it was a natural transition from being a year round competitive swimmer since I was nine years old. I thought it would be a great full time summer job my sophomore year being that most people under the age of 16 find it challenging to get a part time job.

After Chris’ mom left and Chris has to live on his own, he has been imagining his dad comes back. In “Lifeguard” by Barbara Scott, Chris is really independent and full of imagination. Imagination helps Chris to get rid of his stresses. Chris family lives in Calgary, his family had fell apart six years ago, since his dad ran away. Since then, his mom has works really hard to raise Chris and his brother.

The world is full of heroes. The brave men and women who serve in the armed forces protect the United States of America. Local police help ensure safety in cities and towns. Firefighters save lives daily. Doctors perform life-saving surgeries. Heroes are found everywhere. Although some people seem to forget, lifeguards are heroes too. I recently sent in an application to be a lifeguard at the pool on campus. I was discussing hours with a classmate who is currently employed, and he told me that the hours were long, but often a shift would pass without a single swimmer entering the water. Another classmate interjected saying “You can do your homework while you work.” Lifeguarding is not the easy task portrayed in movies. Guards do not suntan and talk to girls for the duration of their shift. Rather, a lifeguard’s duty is in the name: guarding the lives of patrons. The work of these heroes is often gone unpraised. The job is disregarded as an easy way for teenagers to make money, instead of the true challenge it offers to the employees. The process of becoming a lifeguard requires more than blowing a whistle. It is a commitment involving intricate knowledge acquired through training and experience. Lifeguarding is a serious commitment.

It was sometime around 6:00 p.m. on a Thursday night in the middle of January 2016. There was a swim meet going on and it was just about to start. The teams were warming up and getting ready for the meet that was due to start in the coming hour. I was warmed up and concentrating on the race listening to music in my newly acquired platinum studio beats. The music was loud and the nerves were setting as I walked into the locker room with my friend and teammate. As we passed I said good luck to our teammate who I was racing against in the 200 free style. Then out of know were he pulled my friend to the side and whispered something in his ear. I didn’t hear what was said as I had continued to walk. My friend came over to me and I asked what he had said and he told me. He told me

The National Crew is quite demanding from what I have heard from friend who have been apart of the program. You need to be able to withstand several weeks of 56 hour work weeks, with unideal conditions, in a wide variety of difficult environments.

I began working at the age of eight years old at the restaurant. For me it was exciting, I wasn’t doing anything that I did not do at home, but I was making money. For an eight year old it was like allowance but it was much more than any of my friends. My dad admired the fact that I always worked extra hard, but little did he know that I saw what happened to my older sibling who were trying to live a normal teenage life, and being shunned for not wanting to give their all to his dream. I was eight years old, I really did not have a choice. By the time I was ten years old, the restaurant had been going pretty well, so dad decided to open a candy store next door to the restaurant for guess who to manage, yes me. I was his pride and joy and he knew that with my hard work that I would be a success. Of course at ten years old, I was completely excited for the opportunity. Little did I know that the people that I would be managing would be my older siblings who were not to excited about having to answer to a ten year old.

When you think of your first job, a lot of us think of our teenage years when we needed money to go out with friends and keep with the latest trends. During this time, we took any job we could get, from fast food

Also in the summer of 2002 I worked full-time for the month of July in a warehouse in. This really taught me the value of a day and what can be achieved in 8 working hours. My overall experience in the workplace has taught me the value of earning your own money and it has driven me to study hard now while I'm young so that I may reap the rewards in later life

In late October of 2016 I was contacted by the Aquatics Director about upcoming lifeguard classes. I was very nervous and excited at the same time. Nervous because being a lifeguard meant that I had a huge responsibility and I couldn’t take the job lightly. I was also excited because I’d have a job and I could be making money. After some speculation with my parents, we decided that getting a job would be a great way of gaining responsibility.

When I entered the workforce at 16, there weren’t many high paying jobs available for someone with absolutely no previous work experience. The only job available for me was in the fast food industry, so my first job was at TacoBell. Working at TacoBell, exposed me to my very first management style.

The sun was starting to rise over the ocean as I walked on to the beach, for my first day as a beach lifeguard at Seven Presidents Park in Long Branch. Growing up on the Jersey Shore, I had dreamed of being a beach lifeguard since I was a little girl gazing up at the lifeguards high up on their chairs. Now, I was finally going to be in one of those guard chairs. My stomach began to turn as I thought about the prospect of having to rescue a drowning person in the surf.