This is an interesting choice for a job title, because according to the job description, the primary duties of this “Beach Water Person” include serving as a “Beach Lifeguard” and “Pool Lifeguard.” In other words, being a lifesaver.
The job listing names some additional duties related to water activities, such as “instructing stand-up paddleboarding (SUP), canoe paddling, snorkeling and other ocean-based activities.” However, these come after water safety duties in the job description.
This position could have easily been called “Pool/Beach Lifeguard” or simply “Lifeguard”. For generality, “pool/beach lifeguard and boat deckhand” would also work. Alternatively, Zuckerberg could have chosen “Beach/Pool Attendant”, a job title roughly synonymous with lifeguard that could reasonably be understood as including additional duties associated with leisure, such as tending boats or teaching people to stand up paddleboard.
Arguably, any of these options would have provided more clarity than “Beach Water Person”, which does not appear to correspond to a job title anywhere in the English-speaking world.
WIRED did not immediately receive a response from representatives of the Zuckerberg family. Lacking a human to talk to, we decided to ask Meta’s AI chatbot “What is a ‘water person on the beach’?”
“‘Beach water person’ would simply mean a person who likes to be in/close to the ocean,” the chatbot said. “The word for this is thalassophile – ‘a person who loves the seas and oceans.'” Okay!
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