When I said it's too much work, I meant like stress, and worry. I have a few water park lifeguard friends, they've told me it's stressful, it's harder to tell there then at a regular pool if someone's in distress. If I was a lazy lifeguard I wound't be working at a ymca, I had to jump through hoops to get my job. That, and from what I can tell the water park lifeguards only wear suits, I've got noticeable tattoos on my back, the resort lifeguards wear golf shirts.
Like I said before I honestly would take almost any job, I just really want to do this. It'll look amazing on my resume for my major.