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Summer Midweek Beach House Manager Position

April 3, 2010 posted in General Info, House, Recruiting Comments

summer jobSeven Seas is seeking a person for a live/work position on Fire Island at our beach house.

Duration: Mondays-Fridays from May 25th – September 23rd.
Time Required: Approx 20 hours per week
Duties: General housework and cleaning, ordering and inventory, management tasks.
Compensation: $1,000 / month, plus room and board

Description:

The job consists of looking after two beach houses in the lovely town of Kismet on Fire Island between the weekends when the shares fill the place. A general week would look like this: show up on Sunday night or Monday morning. Do the laundry and cleaning on Monday morning. On Tuesday take stock of what is in the refrigerators and pantries and compare the shopping list, place online orders for grocery deliveries. Hang out at the house during the week and keep the place generally tidy. On Thursday morning, pick up the grocery and booze order from the dock and stock the refrigerators and pantries. Leave any time on Friday and return the following week to repeat.

This is a great gig for someone recently laid off looking for some time on the beach to figure on the next step, or someone with a significant other on the mainland where you can stay on weekends and save money by subletting your apartment for the summer.

Applicants must be responsible, reliable, detail oriented, pleasant and fit enough to perform basic physical work and cleaning tasks such as carrying groceries, light gardening, basic household repair, mopping, sweeping, cleaning, etc.

During the weeks, we will have our share members and others that come in and out each week, so it is important that the applicant fit the general tenor of the group that we cater to, mid 20s to mid 30s in age, pleasant, interesting, social, etc. Please visit http://kismetsevenseas.com first and read thoroughly BEFORE applying to understand the type of business we operate and environment we foster. Applicants who clearly have not taken the time to read this in advance will be rejected out of hand.

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Top 5 Kimset Tips and Tricks

March 25, 2010 posted in General Info Comments

When you go to Kismet as many times as we do, you learn a couple tricks.  Here’s a few pointers and secrets to make you feel like you own the place!

  1. TAKE THE EXPRESS TRAIN
    • Pick the LIRR train that runs express from Penn Station & that connects with the ferry within 20 minutes or less.  Then take the cab from the train station to the ferry dock, its cheap, and makes sure you hit the tight connection.  If you take a local train, it costs you another 20 minutes, and if you get there right after a ferry leaves, you’ll wait there too.  Nothing worse than seeing you savvy housemate show up right as the ferry is about t o leave having taken a later train and not waited at the dock at all.
  2. DAY TRIP BY CAR
    • We all know that Fire Island doesn’t have any cars, but you can get to the public Robert Moses beach parking lots about a mile and a half down the road past the lighthouse.  You can park daylight hours at Field 5 and walk to Kismet for the day.  Parking costs about $6.  If you have 4 friends with you, you save almost $150 in LIRR and ferry tickets.  Rent a ZipCar maybe?
  3. HIT THE BEACH BEFORE COMING BACK FROM THE BARS
    • The night air does something karmic-ly good for preventing hangovers.
  4. LEARN WHO’S OUT FOR THE SEASON AND WHO’S OUT FOR THE WEEKEND
    • Super valuable information for lots of reasons.  Both can be a good thing.  Meet a group you like hanging out at the Inn?  Ask them to show you their house on the way back.  The more people in town you know, the more fun it is to pop by and visit and make friends.  Someone you’re flirting with is just out here at a friend’s place for the weekend?  Nice to know that up front, right?
  5. LEAVE YOUR CELL PHONE AT THE HOUSE  WHEN YOU GO OUT
    • Nobody ever picks up.  Its in their bag, they can’t hear it at the bar, the reception is bad, etc.  There are only a few spots your friends will be and they are all right next to each other.  Besides, its not like you need to call a cab or anything, right?

Kismet or Ocean Beach?

March 13, 2010 posted in General Info Comments
Which is right for you?

Which is right for you?

Lots of people thinking about joining our house are faced with options in Kismet and in Ocean beach.  If you’ve never been to Fire Island, it can be hard to know what the difference is.  Kismet and Ocean Beach are both popular towns for sharehouses and offer healthy nightlife. If you’re looking for a weekend share on Fire Island and you are social, either town could be a good bet for you. Understanding what is similar and different is key to ending up somewhere that you are happy.

Here are a couple of key facts to keep in mind:

  • Both Kismet and Ocean Beach are primarily filled with straight people.  The predominantly gay communities are much further east.
  • Ocean Beach is bigger than Kismet, there are more bars and restaurants and more houses; however, it is much more crowded as well.  Both towns have upscale restaurants,  bars with dancing and live music, pizza parlors, ice cream shops and grocery stores.  Only Ocean Beach has clothing stores and other trinket shops.
  • For singles or young people without kids: Ocean Beach leans more in the low 20’s age group with lots of  groups of college kids or very recent post-grads (think ACE bar), whereas Kismet has a more mid 20’s – 30’s average age group.
  • Since Ocean Beach is bigger and more crowded, it also has many more rules.  Often called the “Land of No” rules include: no riding bikes, no drinking outside, no food or water allowed on the beach, no throwing games or kite flying on the beach, and you must wear shoes in town.  For a full list of Ocean Beaches rules, see the code itself.
  • Kismet is much more laid back and uncrowded, you will know everyone by the end of the summer.  Great if you want to feel connected, not as good if you’re looking for anonymity

The last thing that is often overlooked by first-time Fire Islanders is the water taxi.  Water Taxis are high speed boats the ferry you up and down the island from town to town.  Getting to between Ocean Beach and Kismet costs $8 one-way and takes about 10 minutes.  Taxis stop at the dock roughly every 20-30 minutes until around 1AM.  It is not at all uncommon to hop on one and head to the other town to hit some bars or go to a restaurant.  Every weekend there are groups that come from Ocean Beach  and other communities to Kismet to have a great meal followed by dancing at the Kismet Surf’s Out, or hear a jazz or rock cover band play at the Inn.

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