Summer 2010.  Some students are going on trips, some are playing sports, and many have summer jobs along with all their other activities.

Summer jobs can be just a way to get money or can be something that fills up time throughout the summer and school months.

Some students work together at their jobs and make work a team effort, creating fun and meaning out of what they dedicate their time to.

Junior Chelsea Selinsky plans on being a nanny as one of her things to do in this summer. She will be taking care of a three-month-old baby girl named Aubrey.

“I will be taking care of her throughout the summer three times a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays,” said Selinsky,  and the favorite part of the job is “spending time with the baby.”

Some jobs depend on location and available time around other activities, such as summer sports.

“There were lots of other opportunities but this is what I wanted to do with my free time,” said Selinsky.

Lifeguarding is a popular summer job for students.

This can be a simple but very responsible job in the community. Certification is a requirement.

Senior Alicia Slusarek will be a lifeguard at the west side YMCA this summer.

She says she will be working the sub shifts or rotating shifts with other lifeguards at the YMCA with other lifeguards switching off. “I have worked there a long time and I like it. It is a fun job, and I do not have to do much,” said Slusarek.

She said that she usually just takes the open slots nobody wants and has an easy schedule that is flexible for the job.

The only thing she would like to change is a simple one: “I wish it was outside.”

“The YMCA is a good Christian community, “ added  the graduating senior.  She has been certified for two years and plans to continue her lifeguarding through college.

Other creative activities  include services for charitable jobs, a label Junior Michael Curran gives to his plan of being a plasma blood donator this summer.

He discovered this opportunity through his mother, Marla, at Biolife Plasma Services. Plasma is separated from the donated blood through a shaking process. This plasma is used in blood transfusions and other hospital needs for patients.

Curran says he plans to start donating  plasma  in June because he has to be 18 to donate plasma.

Curran adds that by donating  plasma  “I help people and rake in that dough at the same time.”  He admits he plans on trying to find a “real job” as well this summer.