You'd probably have to clean that out as well...

Dude as a lifeguard all I do is sit around and occasionally sweep the deck, take out the trash, or clean the bathrooms.

FYL op

You're in the "puppy phase" In about a month you will get used to things.

You'll find out soon enough that that's how the majority of your days will be spent as a lifeguard

I'm such a spoiled brat considering that my first thought after reading this was, "I would never do that. Hell no". In all seriousness though, good luck OP. You're definitely a bigger man than I am.

YDI for not reading the job description before applying. It's your responsibility to know what your own job entails.

Believe me this part never goes away. I've been guarding for 4 years and I still clean up the pools, but the good of possibly saving lives outweighs the cleaning part by a ton.

I spent a LOT of time at public pools since both my dad and my best friend had one in their neighborhoods and the lifeguard never once had to save someone. I don't think it's actually that common. You're there just in case. I do, however, remember hearing about quite a number of incidents during the many days we spent at the local water park. Wave pool, tons of different slide pools, lazy river, regular pools, giant slides, etc. Lots more saving to do there, I think. Perhaps, after you've spent some time at this pool, you should look at getting a job with a water park. As a kid, I never thought about how nasty all this stuff was and it's been probably a decade since I've been to a public pool or a water park, but my dad lives in the hottest part of Arizona and, frankly, no one cared as long as we weren't melting.