San Francisco Lighthouse is Offering a Dream Job on a Breathtaking Little Island

Get paid to live on East Brother Island and run the lighthouse and bed and breakfast Victorian Lighthouse Dinner

Located atop an island in the strait separating San Pablo and San Francisco bays, near Point Richmond, CA, the East Brother Light Station is offering two jobs for two people that love the sea. The salary is approximately $130,000 and will be split between the two, along with room and board on the island. The new employees can definitely be a couple or just two friends looking for an adventure-filled job that comes with a sweet view of San Francisco.

The main responsibilities will be operating the lighthouse, cooking, cleaning, as well as piloting the station’s boat – which requires a commercial boat operator's license from the US Coast Guard. Among other responsibilities would be running little errands, and different tasks like doing the laundry, setting up supply runs, etc.

The two new inn keepers must not be smokers, they must not have children, and preferably animals neither, especially dogs. The inn is open Thursday through Sunday and hosts a number of special events. Also, they will get between two to four weeks of vacation every year.

The current inn keepers, Che Rodgers and Jillian Meeker, are leaving their posts and need two others to take over the 1874 lighthouse turned bed and breakfast. They will be helping with the interviews and with the training for the new keepers, which will start in mid-April 2019 and will last for two weeks, then on 1st of May they will be officially handing over the keys.

Che has a background in marine biology and grew up working on fishing boats in Alaska, while Jillian worked at a bed and breakfast for four years before coming to the Bay Area, and loves cooking. They say there are, of course, perks to running the station, like “incomparable views,” meeting “interesting people,” “hard work but pretty good pay,” “birds, marine mammals, fresh air, boats,”, and “Uncovering tiny pieces of the history. There’s so much more, too, and that’s the hard part – leaving before we’ve solved all the mysteries,” Jillian Meeker stated.

If you are interested in applying and you have a valid Coast Guard license, then you can download the application here. Also, this is the official website of the inn.

 

Source: theguardian.com