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My eldest son qualified as a pool lifeguard as was able to earn ?7.50/hour working for Fusion as a summer job / part timer after school.


The Royal Life Saving Society 5 day qualifying course cost ?170.00 and is run by various leisure centres - including JAGS locally. A google search will locate where and when next courses are held.


He has also qualified as a Beach LIfeguard (different 5 day course - run by Royal National Lifeboat Institution for about ?200) and hopes to earn ?8.00 / hour for 48 hour week on Cornish beach this summer. As a student and effectively a non tax payer it's pretty good money at ~ ?400 a week.

bigbadwolf Wrote:

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> Admit it Tony, you're thinking of becomeing a

> lifeguard.


Love to but financially I have that sinking feeling that it isn't going to work out, though, if me and my mates pool our resources then I might just go with the flow.


Life's A Beach, sometimes...B)

Clazza Wrote:

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> I tied in my lifeguard training with swimming

> coaching so paid well through Uni. My fav.

> lifeguarding stint was a summer on the beach in

> San Diego. Ah those were the days. Was good money

> as a student.


Aah - San Diego. Wind surfing off the beach, skiing in the mountains. The perfect climate ~ 75F all year round. I remember it well, particularly beach parties on Coronado Island and drinking Dry Martini's watching the sun set over the Pacific from the terrace of the Coronado Hotel (was that it's name? - the one that featured in the Marilyn Monroe / Jack lemon film "Some LIke it Hot"))

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