Rob Bond, 43, spent four years as a math teacher at Warren and St. Viator high schools before a career change to coaching swimming and working as an aquatics manager. He began work July 12 as the new Aquatics Center manager for the Oak Brook Park District.
Q: How did you end up becoming a swim coach and aquatics manager after working as a math teacher.
A: I decided I wanted a career change, and I had been a swimmer.
Q: When you were a young boy, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A: A veterinarian. I love animals. I had a pet hamster, and we had cats when I was a kid. I always wanted a dog and got one when I went to college.
Q: Where did you grow up?
A: In Bolingbrook, and then we moved when I was 15 to Hoffman Estates.
Q: Are you married and do you have any kids?
A: I’ve been married to Bridget for 15 years. We have two boys, Emmett, 11, and TJ, 8.
Q: Do you have any hobbies?
A: Fishing, barbecuing and darts
Q: What’s your biggest pet peeve?
A: When people tell me, “That’s the way it’s always been done.”
Q: Who should play you in a movie about your life?
A: The Rock. We’re both bald.
Q: What’s your favorite food?
A: Pulled pork
Q: Do you have a favorite beverage?
A: Iced tea, unsweetened
Q: What do you like on your pizza?
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A: Sausage and bacon
Q: What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?
A: Cherry chocolate chip
Q: What is your favorite TV show?
A: ‘Game of Thrones’
Q: Do you have a favorite music artist?
A: AC/DC
Q: Fiction or nonfiction?
A: nonfiction
Q: What’s number one on your bucket list?
A: To see Ireland
Q: What’s your guilty pleasure?
A: Watching reruns of ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ with my boys
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