A Mediocre Summer by Miranda Doller

Summer... three words to describe what I did this summer: work, swim, and more work. You could say that working over the summer is great because you get paid. Even getting paid minimum wage made me feel accomplished. I was a lifeguard over the summer at the Lake Mohawk Pool. Let me say this one very important thing: if you're going to choose lifeguarding as a job, make sure it's at a busy pool so you don't fall asleep on stand. To be honest, it wasn't the worst job ever. My friend, Mikayla, was a lifeguard there too, so if we had shifts together, it wouldn't suck as much as it did with the other guards, although we did get in trouble for playing rock, paper, scissors on stand. I made a couple friends that went to Sparta High School, other high schools or just needed a summer job to get money for college. There was a staff party one night and we played water polo for an hour or so. That was a lot of fun and I was bummed that there wasn't another one planned out. Lifeguarding is a pretty simple job, but sitting in the sun for 4-6 hours is not fun. Especially if there's less than 30 people in a 50 meter pool. This pool had nothing interesting about it. Just two diving boards and one lame water slide. That's it.
Exhibit A:

It would've been nice to work somewhere that had a tall water slide and one of those cool fountains that had water spewing out of it.

Not only did I work, but I swam too.
My summer schedule went like this:

4:45 am. Wake up
5:00 am. Leave the house for swim practice
6:00-8:00 am. Swim practice
8:00-9:00 am. driving back home from swim practice
Then either a 12:00- 6:00 shift or a 10:00-3:00 shift.
That was it for most of the summer.
On the weekends, I had swim meets that were for my club swim team, MCSC. Those were pretty stressful to say the least.
On some Wednesdays, there were swim meets for Lake Mohawk Pool that I would swim in (Go Hawks!!). On a couple occasions, I would have to lifeguard and swim in the meet. So I would get up on stand, swim, and get back up on stand.

Overall, this summer was somewhat fun. I experienced what it was like to have a job and the responsibilities that come along with that and the fun of it as well.