The East Brother Light Station is on a small island off Point Molate within the strait between San Francisco and San Pablo bays in Richmond, California — they usually’re searching for an innkeeper. The property consists of a lighthouse inbuilt 1874, a five-room inn that serves dinner and breakfast to company, and a three-bedroom cottage used because the residing lodging for the innkeepers.
The itemizing states that East Brother Light Station, Inc’s excellent candidates for this job could be a pair. They would handle the inn, whereas volunteers proceed to assist preserve the lighthouse and grounds.
“It’s considered one of these jobs the place folks say, ‘I would not commerce something on the earth for the chance to do that, however I might by no means do it once more.’ It’s actually arduous work, but it surely’s very rewarding,” Tom Butt, former mayor of Richmond and the president of the nonprofit, tells CNBC Make It.
The lighthouse has been working since 1874.
Tom Butt
At least one of many candidates within the couple should have a Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Credential boat operator’s license to ferry company to and from the island.
Butt says the Coast Guard license is an absolute requirement and a non-negotiable. Candidates ought to have hospitality expertise and, in line with the job posting, high-quality culinary expertise and maid companies for inn company are additionally required.
“We’re searching for anyone that may work nicely with us [the nonprofit] and work with the general public nicely and actually wish to do that,” Butt says.
The inn is open 4 days every week, Thursday via Sunday, and is on the market for day leases and particular events.
The island would not have a wired cellphone, web, or water stress. Neither of the candidates is allowed to be a smoker, the job posting states.
The East Brother Light Station is positioned on a small island.
Tom Butt
The East Brother Light Station is searching for the brand new keepers to begin in April 2025, however two weeks of coaching would begin immediately.
The utility opened in December and can stay open till the nonprofit finds its innkeepers.
Butt says the innkeepers are paid by sharing the income from the inn with the East Brother Light Station nonprofit, and may hold no matter suggestions they get on the job. A well being plan and residing quarters are included within the compensation bundle.
In the final fiscal yr, from June 2023 to June 2024, the overall income was round $381,000, and the innkeeper’s wage was near $139,000.
Butt provides that many of the earlier innkeepers have come from locations exterior of California. “We do not care the place they arrive from so long as they’re the proper folks,” he says.
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