What I wish was different
I wish I had received a larger raise for returning to Bonnet Shores Beach Club, since this was my fourth summer working there, and while I did receive a $1.25 raise from last summer, the RI DEM raised minimum wage for state-employed lifeguards to $13.00/hour starting salary. So after working at Bonnet Shores Beach Club for four years, I was still making what a first year surf lifeguard would have been making at a state beach.