In the spring of 2012 I decided that it was time to get my very first job. I only wanted to work two days a week to get a little bit of money so i decided to get a job at a restaurant being a hostess. It wasn't that bad, especially for my first job. There were many nights where I wanted to just walk out because I felt like nothing was going right, but I always stuck it out for the full shift. I ended up working there for three very long years, but it was three years that taught me a lot about my self and how I work with others that I don't even know.
The summer of 2013 I decided that I wanted to become a lifeguard, so I pursued that want and took the necessary classes to get certified. I got a job at the local pool and after almost four year I am still working there and loving every minute of it, I'm even a manager now. I started teaching swimming lessons my second summer working there because I thought it would be not only good for me but extra money in my pocket again doing something I really enjoyed. When fall would roll around I always decided that life guarding would only be a summer job because of that fact that I do go to college full time.
Jump to 2015 and I am graduating high school and getting ready to start college in the fall. I am still life guarding and teaching swimming lessons in the summer, making what I think is good money for an 18 year old who still lives at home. Not being able to do much during the day almost all summer does suck but I get used to it and make the most out of it because I know that I will be working for the rest of my life, and who knows if I will like my future job as much as I do now. Plus with life guarding I get to spend all day in the sun, who couldn't love that?
Flashing forward to the beginning of my sophomore year of college and look at where I ended up... I am not only a full time college student struggling with an insane homework load but I am also working two jobs, yes TWO! Wow, I must really love to be constantly stressed out and pressed on time.
I am enrolled in 18 credit hours, do hours of homework each night, work three days a week teaching swimming lessons (nope I couldn't get away), and I also babysit two nights a week. School alone is a full time job but I guess I like to keep extra busy because I love what I do and I wouldn't want it to be any other way. Work in my eyes is a way to distract myself from what is going on around me at school. Work helps me to get off of campus and away from homework for a few hours out of the day, if I don't take my book bag with me (everywhere I go).
On the weekends I also manage to obviously see my family and my boyfriend who think I am crazy for working so many jobs while going to school, but hey I love what I do and wouldn't change it for the life of me.
I'm not your average college student and I'm perfectly fine with that!
