{"id":17062,"date":"2019-10-18T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=17062"},"modified":"2020-06-09T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T16:31:21","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-female-lifeguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-female-lifeguard\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day In The Life Of A Female Lifeguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17063\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/A-Day-in-the-Life-web-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration by Alexander Ontiveros.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/A-Day-in-the-Life-web-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/A-Day-in-the-Life-web-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/A-Day-in-the-Life-web-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/A-Day-in-the-Life-web.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ALEXANDER ONTIVEROS \/ THE REPORTER<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every day I see men slightly evolving and treating women with the respect they deserve. It\u2019s not enough. They still brush us off like we have no idea what we are doing, even if we have more experience than them. This is a trend I have particularly noticed with men older than 45 years old.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I\u2019m not at school I\u2019m at work. My job is pretty simple as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.careerexplorer.com\/careers\/lifeguard\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">lifeguard<\/span><\/a>: I sit on the stand and enforce safety rules. I have authority over individuals at the pool deck if they are doing something that can put their safety at risk. It\u2019s simple.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I used to be the sole female lifeguard on an all-male team, who many swimmers saw almost every day for two years until this past summer. Many of the lap swimmers who come to the pool are regulars now and follow the rules. They understand that I don\u2019t play around when it comes to safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, summer brings an influx of new members who don\u2019t know these rules, so I explain it to them. Many of them are okay with it and it never becomes a problem. Recently, I heard from the other guards about a member who was doing front flips into the pool. The pool is already shallow, but this particular spot is three feet deep.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naturally, I was concerned about him potentially miscalculating the flip and hitting his head. I spoke to my boss and he said he had seen the guy, but he wanted a guard to address it first in order to not break the chain of command.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, I waited.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, the gentleman showed up and, as expected, did a flip. I approached him and told him that he couldn\u2019t do a front flip because the water was too shallow and he could get injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What he said next really grinded my gears: \u201cI\u2019ve been doing it for years, sweetie. Don\u2019t worry, I appreciate your concern.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First of all, I don\u2019t care that he had been doing it for \u201cyears.\u201d I, the lifeguard on duty, was telling him he couldn\u2019t do it. It\u2019s kind of like if a patient has lung cancer and the doctor tells them to stop smoking. Clearly, you should listen to the doctor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second of all, why did he call me sweetie? Why would any man feel the need to call a woman sweetie or patronize her for simply doing her job? I have a name and if he didn\u2019t know it, he could\u2019ve simply called me lifeguard, as many people do. He could\u2019ve even called me miss or ma\u2019am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To top it all off, the gentleman then told me that I didn\u2019t know how to do my job after I closed the pool because of lightning and asked him to leave. Give me a break. I have three years of lifeguarding experience and have been in the swimming world for almost my whole life. He eventually filed a complaint against me for being rude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Had I been a male lifeguard, I doubt he would\u2019ve been as smug and impolite. And that\u2019s the saddest part of all. Instead of respecting me, he took offense to me doing my job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a society that has come so far, it\u2019s unfortunate that many men still can\u2019t respect and treat women the same way they treat their counterparts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day I see men slightly evolving and treating women with the respect they deserve. It\u2019s not enough. They still brush us off like we have no idea what we are doing, even if we have more experience than them. 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