Nicholas Pryplesh

This work includes responsibilities such as:

• Prepping and stocking ingredients
• Cooking at the woks and fryers to entirely prepare dishes
• Directly servicing customers at the cashier and while serving food
• Cleaning and doing maintenance on restaurant equipment

This work experience involves long periods of high stress and balancing various tasks simultaneously, while having to perform stressful tasks at high speeds, like operating jet burner stoves and needing to memorize dozens of individual menu items and modifications, and quickly recall them.

I taught individual, small, and large group swim classes for children ranging from the ages of 3 to 13 years old. The majority of the lessons involved getting in the water, assisting kids one-on-one, and really challenging my communication and problem-solving skills. I was responsible for communicating with parents and needing to deliver constructive criticism at times, and discipline at others.

Attributes for this job included:

• Communication skills
• Problem soving skills
• Patience
• Thick skin
• Empahty

This work required long stretches of complete focus and mental discipline. Performing well in this job, which often required keeping track of dozens of kids and how long they've been under the water, or who may be in an unsafe situation while surveying a large area, gave me really good experience working in a stressful environment where I had a heavy responsibility.

Additional responsibilities beyond guarding the pool included:

• Cleaning and setup for facilities
• Managing interactions with both friendly and occasionally hostile customers alike. (An example is a parent responding aggressively to me blowing my whistle at their child shoving another off the dive platform.)
• Occasionally having to retrieve a younger child who was uncomfortable in the deep end of the pool