Posted on 07/17/2021 6:50:48 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Joshua Vish, at age 36, is the oldest lifeguard at the Dormont Pool. The job pays $15 an hour and is a dream come true, he said. Maybe even a life-saver.
Wanted: whistleblowers. “It feels very much like, ‘Finally!’ ” Mr. Vish said of his new work.
Friends told Mr. Vish about the openings, and he dove right in. He’d been jobless, and his fiancée had just broken up with him after nine years together. Previously, he had worked as a barista, personal trainer and prep cook. “It’s like I got held back two decades, and now I’m starting all over again,” He also lost the car in his breakup, so he walked to work until he got a 1997 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.
To get the job, Mr. Vish had to take a two-day lifeguard training course, then pass a three-part test: swim 200 yards, tread water without using his hands for two minutes and swim to a depth of 13 feet to retrieve a 10-pound brick. “Here I am with all these collegiate swimmers,” Mr. Vish said. “I barely passed. I had to give it my everything.” Some of the young lifeguards at the pool call him “Viking” because of his scraggly brown beard.
Mr. Rubin runs a tight ship. He forbids whistle twirling and the staccato whistle blasts known as chirping. Mr. Vish plans to work locally as a lifeguard again next summer. A friend recently told him an ice rink is hiring Zamboni drivers for the fall and winter.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
There’s something wrong with this nation’s young men.
Some people define success differently.
Where did "Wanted: whistleblowers" come from? I tried copying and pasting the beginning of the article and didn't get that.
—”Some people define success differently.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus, an old white Greek guy.
—”I tried copying and pasting the beginning of the article and didn’t get that.”
Probably because you neglected to simultaneously copy the adjacent photo caption?
There appears to be a difference between the formatting of the original at the WSJ and the archive version.
Mister Rubin is just a sneaky reference to Sandwich England?
“Joshua Vish keeps up with collegiate swimmers, answers to a 21-year-old supervisor and shares a breakroom stocked with Doritos; ‘I’m starting all over’”
And WSJ creates an article on him. Clown world.
“ his fiancée had just broken up with him after nine years together”
It took her that long to figure out he wasn’t going to marry her?
Key line of the ‘B’ movie, “The Lifeguard”:
Dad: “Son, how long are are you going to work as a Lifeguard?
Son: “As long as they will let me”.
Probably the best line in the whole ‘B’ movie.
and his fiancée had just broken up with him after nine years together.
Lol!
It’s only fun until Corn Pop shows up and wants to fight.
Why buy the cow…???
—”Mister Rubin is just a sneaky reference to Sandwich England?”
I enjoy an occasional Rubin sandwich and do recall Alan Greenspan but after that, your reply is a bit cryptic?
Could you PLS provide some easy clues?
Thank you.
And now I crave a nice thick Rubin with the mayo and relish... Perhaps for brunch?
For decades, the WSJ ran quirky, offbeat, light-hearted, and fun articles in the center column of page 1. This reads like one of those.
I think they discontinued that center column years ago. I subscribed for an Engineering Economics course in college and quit reading it 25 years later.
Ann Archer yummy yummy yummy
—” “Son, how long are are you going to work as a Lifeguard?...“As long as they will let me”
Top paid LA lifeguards earn up to $392,000 annually: report
Seven LA County lifeguards earned more than $300,000 in taxpayer dough by tapping into overtime pay in 2019, the latest year available,
https://nypost.com/2021/03/28/top-paid-la-lifeguards-earn-up-392000-annually/
But they all look like a young Pamela Anderson and are capable of going tooth and nail against a GREAT WHITE SHARK!
—”It’s only fun until Corn Pop shows up and wants to fight.”
And only Joe the jamoke can deal with him?
Fortunately the jamoke nows claims that Pop had passed away and is no longer available to reminisce about some fake BS.
I used to work as a Chicago Park District lifeguard. It was a great summer job. Many fond memories.
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