CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE LIFEGUARD

[Music] hey you everyone what's up it's Kate and welcome back to my channel thanks for taking some time out of your day today to hang out with me and let's get right into it so today's video I'm very excited about filming this this video idea I had for like so long and one of the reasons I wanted to be on YouTube was that I wanted to make this video because I think it is such a fun video idea and fun to talk about so the topic of the day is confessions of a teenage lifeguard now not everything I'm gonna say is gonna be a confession some of it's just gonna be me like talking about life gardening and then some of them will be like juicy confessions so yeah let's get into it the first topic that I'm going to address in this video is kind of like the first stage of lifeguarding and it's called you think it's gonna be scary but it's really not [Music] you're new to lifeguarding right or you're trying to decide that you want to be a lifeguard and you think it's gonna be really scary because you've like seen the movies and you seem TV and it's all very dramatized and you think that holy crap like I'm not gonna be able to save that person they're gonna be drowning and I'm not gonna know what to do one you will know what to do because in an emergency situation like it is instinctual that you will know what to do to you'll have a ton of backup because there are so many other lifeguards there that are gonna be helping you so it's not like you're just gonna be on your own the whole time so I definitely think that like overcome that and you'll be fine I think that as long as you know what to do and you feel prepared then you should totally take on this job it is super great so I'm going to move on now that I've said that into my second stage of this video which is called what the job actually is [Music] so TV movies make out this job to look like it's something that it's not let's be real here it's not Baywatch okay it's not as much as I wish it was and as much as I love that movie that's not what my job was like or any other life guard job is like okay so what's this job actually like what do you have to do cleaning you have to do a lot of cleaning you have to do a lot of gross stuff that you really probably wouldn't want to do in any other situation but it's your job so you have to do it such as weaning cleaning bathrooms cleaning out the gutters cleaning this cleaning that yucky stuff you have to take the water vacuum in and out you have to clean the bathrooms multiple times a day after the wash for poop clean up poop clean up vomit clean up the pavilion clean up all kinds of yucky nasty stuff that is in your job description and you have to do it mostly I don't know any lifeguard who didn't have to do that so let me know if you didn't have to do that lucky you but that is just a part of this job so if you're coming here thinking that's just gonna be sitting in a chair wearing a bathing suit and looking cute all day you're wrong next part of the job is like the majority of what your job is when you're on stand which means when you're actually sitting in the lifeguard chair the next part of this job is called rule enforcing now this one is very important because it is you enforcing the rules of your swim club and making sure that whoever it is kid adult usually kid is staying safe this is the part that you know all about the no running no jumping no shakin fighting all of those fun Universal rules and then of course you'll have your own quirks at whatever club or water park or wherever you're working at will have their own rules own doozies that you get to enforce and it's really fun because you get to yell at the same kids for doing the same thing again and again and again this is the part of the job that is really annoying but it is totally worth it because it's fun but this is the majority of the job it is not jumping in and doing spinal saves every single day or saving an old grandpa from dying like those things can happen but the majority of what you're going to be doing during your six-hour shift or however long your shift is is saying don't jump off the diving board back words and stuff along those lines it's a little more dry than the TV makes it out to be that's okay so let's go into the next thing which is my confession for the video and that is body image yay so let's talk about this this is a subject that I wanted to address in this video because I'm never I've seen a lot of like reading videos you know I'm interested I want to put out my content but I want to look at the other content that's out there and this is something that none of them have mentioned so maybe this is just unique to me but I can't imagine that it is so I'm gonna say in this video anyway so body image so you're sitting out there all day every day looking at other people wearing bathing suits well you yourself are wearing a bathing suit now how does this weigh on your body image to me it weighed pretty heavy and it was something that was on my mind a lot of the time when I was just sitting there because you are sitting there watching them and what else you gonna think about when you're on stands you know you have all this free time to think about whatever you want and there here comes girl with perfect bikini body and teenage girl mind means compare yourself to that person now that is not a good mindset I'm not saying that it's for sure gonna happen to you or that you shouldn't be a lifeguard because of this but that is a confession of mine that that weighed heavy on me while I was a lifeguard it was something that I was very hyper aware of hyper where my body image I was constantly comparing myself to other people's bodies that I was seeing every day and it could become very toxic if I let it and I'm glad that it didn't and I had a good handle on it I have a very positive body image which you will see in future videos and I'm very excited to make and talk about but this is just a topic that I wanted to sprinkle in as my confession and something that happens during lifeguarding that I thought would be valuable to add into this video so I'm just gonna put my little disclaimer there that this happened to me doesn't mean it's gonna happen to you doesn't mean you shouldn't take the job doesn't mean lifeguarding is bad I'm gonna talk about all the good stuff about it in a moment but that's just a little warning [Music] so my final confession has to do with the fact that lifeguarding means you are working with several other people all of whom are probably pretty attractive and all of whom are in your age range from maybe younger maybe older but in your age range and you get to see all of them and their bathing suits too and they get to see you in yours you know what that means drama crushes it happens like it happens so much and like how can you be a life partner and not have a crush on your coworker I don't know because I've had my fair share of co-worker crushes and I know my co-workers have had crushes they all everyone likes everyone maybe that's not true but like everyone kind of has had a crush on another co-worker at some point then two will go on a date and it'll be super awkward at work the next day just think you're spending like six hours of your day almost every day with these people like what do you think is gonna happen there's gonna be drama she's gonna be cliques there's gonna be politics and like drama that happens outside of work people hang outside of work and then come back and people go on dates and like stuff like that and it's very entertaining but it can also be not cool because you don't want to get in a situation that makes your job awkward so that's another aspect of this job in another confession I've had crushes on my lifeguarding coworker so if any of you are watching this then it was probably pretty obvious that I had a crush on you and you probably already know and if you don't then shame on you for not picking up on the signs that I was flirting but anyway yeah that's my confession about being a lifeguard so anyway like birding is the best job ever I know I said some negative stuff about this video but I also want to say the positives is that I made it out like a negative that you're with people your own age but it's not it's so nice because you automatically make a lot of friends you have fun people you get to see every day keeps us somewhere interesting you get to be outside you get to get a tan you get to go swimming on your breaks like that is so fun you get free food all the time there are so many perks of this job it's great hours it's beautiful location and its really really overall such a fun time I wouldn't trade my experience as a lifeguard for anything I've had some of the best summers in my life as a lifeguard and I I recommend anyone who is physically able to be a lifeguard to be one because it is so much fun and cool in a great job however there are some negatives of the job that just come along with it and you have to either suck it up and deal with it or not but I would totally say that the pros outweigh the cons so definitely be a lifeguard that's all I got to say about that well I mean I could go on for hours but that is in a nutshell my experience as a lifeguard and hopefully this video is kind of entertaining and helpful for you and yeah so if you enjoyed this video then please subscribe to my youtube channel check out my social media and I'll hopefully see all of you again in the future so thank you so much for watching I appreciate every single one of you and have a wonderful afternoon

Channel: Kate Rogers

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Keywords: Lifeguarding, Lifeguard Job, Confession, Lifeguard confessions, Summer Job, Confessions of a lifeguard, Body image, Michal Sodek, Gretchen Geraghty, JaredFowlerTV, Lifeguard, Making money, modernrogers, Kate Rogers, Modern Rogers, lifeguard training, lifeguard rescue, lifeguard certification test

Id: SyB_9xk0Gqk

Length: 9min 6sec (546 seconds)

Published: Mon May 14 2018