Anonymous wrote:What countries are they mostly from?
Who pays their rent?
There is a apartment complex near my house where the rents start out at $2,000 a month and they are living there.
I know this because I always see them walking to and from the shopping center across the street carrying bags of groceries.
Summer lifeguarding must pay really well.

Mostly Russians

When I was single I paid for one of their rents ?

Anonymous wrote:It's too bad American kids can't have these jobs

You so funny! American kids don't want these jobs - half of them are studying remedial math to get creamed by Indian kids for tech jobs, the others are lazily playing video games.

It's too bad American kids can't have these jobs

Years ago there was a lifeguard at one of the pools in my old neighborhood who would always wear a CCCP t shirt.

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Anonymous wrote:These jobs should be going to local teens . It's appalling that in our neighborhood pool not one local teen is working as a lifeguard.

Let's be honest. Many middle and upper-class kids would rather not work if they don't have to or do internships, SSL hours, etc. I teach the lifeguarding course for many local pool companies and they go out of their way to try and recruit local teenagers. They go to many MCPS high schools and set up job fairs but kids just aren't flocking to the job like they were even ten years ago. Heck, even when I was a pool guard back in the late 90's the companies would comment how fewer and fewer kids were applying for lifeguarding jobs. It also doesn't help that our couch potato tendencies make it a challenge for some of the teens taking the course to pass the pre-requisite swim tests given the first night of class.

Our HHI is over $700k/yr. Both of our teens have jobs. I don't think our kids know how much we make--at any rate, we usually tell them that's what we make. It's not their money, and they need to figure out how to earn their own. (That said, we do pay pay for their outrageous private school tuition among other things)

PP here who trains lifeguards - I applaud your attitude. I also grew up in a very affluent family but my siblings and I all had to have jobs starting at 15. Definitely taught me to appreciate the value of a dollar and helped give me a good sense of responsibility.

I come from an affluent family as well and I had to work every summer starting in high school. Once I got to college, I had to work and go to school. One of the best things my mother ever did for me.

My kids lifeguard and have befriended the foreign lifeguards at hotels and lodges in national parks. The ones we knew locally were given a rental which was quite a distance from the hotel where they worked and there wasn't much public transportation in that particular suburb. They would walk miles along a busy highway to get home, sometimes buy a bicycle. I worried about their safety -- walking in the dark during an electrical storm, etc. My daughter ended up giving them rides often when their schedules worked out. They had to walk to the grocery store and carry their groceries home, had just a few pots and pans they got from a yard sale.

Be nice to these guys! Offer them your leftover pizza. Maybe ask them if they need a ride if you see them leaving around the same time you are. Talk to them and ask them how they're fixed for household stuff in their apartments. If you have some stuff in your garage, offer it to them.

My sons worked in a national park and had cars, and ended up driving a couple of Russian lifeguards around with them, into town, etc. It was a nice experience for them to get to know these guys.

Teens in this area think they are too good to work part time jobs or summer jobs.