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Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts) Fri Jan 4, 2019, 03:21 PM Jan 2019

Here's a unique job for someone. Pay is $130,000/year

San Francisco lighthouse seeks caretakers. Salary: $130,000.

Tiny island with beautiful views of city could be your new home – if you can pilot a boat and run a bed and breakfast.

Wanted: lighthouse keepers.

Location: a tiny island with remarkable views of San Francisco.

Salary: approximately $130,000.

A job search sure to stoke fantasy and envy is now under way for two keepers who will be based at the East Brother Light Station, which has lit up the northern reaches of San Francisco Bay since 1873. Although they will share the salary and require qualifications that will rule out many would-be applicants, there has already been broad interest in the positions.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/04/san-francisco-lighthouse-east-brother-light-station-job

It might be a lot of fun for awhile anyway, maybe a few years at most.

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Here's a unique job for someone. Pay is $130,000/year (Original Post) Equinox Moon Jan 2019 OP

Now I could get used to this guruoo Jan 2019 #1

Um, no itsrobert Jan 2019 #2

plan meals including catering to food allergies, ferry supplies, marybourg Jan 2019 #3

As a kid, I could hear the Brothers Island foghorn in bed Brother Buzz Jan 2019 #4

guruoo

(5,092 posts)

1. Now I could get used to this

Reply to Equinox Moon (Original post)

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 03:29 PM

Jan 2019

minus the bed and breakfast part.

itsrobert

(14,157 posts)

2. Um, no

Reply to Equinox Moon (Original post)

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 03:33 PM

Jan 2019

Cook, clean, chauffer, host, tour guide and maintain the grounds of Bed & Breakfast, lighthouse. You can have it.

marybourg

(12,601 posts)

3. plan meals including catering to food allergies, ferry supplies,

Reply to itsrobert (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 03:47 PM

Jan 2019

deal with complaints, fill out forms and reports, host VIPs AND possibly deal with another co-equal employee/stranger alone on an island? Sounds like a job from hell.

Brother Buzz

(36,389 posts)

4. As a kid, I could hear the Brothers Island foghorn in bed

Reply to Equinox Moon (Original post)

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 03:52 PM

Jan 2019

I understand the B&B provides complementary earplugs

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