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Bed & Breakfast: Inn Serendipity, Monroe, WI
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Have you thought about giving it all up and moving to the country to live a simpler life?  Think that the hustle and bustle of city life is going to drive you over the edge?  John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist know how you feel. They left the wild ride of corporate life, moved to the country and built a self-sustaining lifestyle business - and love it. And now John and Lisa are ready to mentor you in your very own dream-job VocationVacations holiday as an earth-friendly, self-sustaining Innkeeper!

 

John and Lisa gave up their corporate lives and moved to the hill-country near Monroe, Wisconsin in 1996. Both had worked for one of the world’s largest advertising agencies based in Chicago but found that the “treadmill of corporate life” was leaving them feeling empty at the end of the day. They looked at the world around them and realized that they needed to put their values to work for themselves and future generations – thus began Inn Serendipity. 

 

After purchasing the house and land, John and Lisa brought the land back to its natural state…encouraging native animals to forage on the property by planting native trees and plants. By 2003 the inn was working on 100% renewable energy with a wind turbine and photoelectric system. John and Lisa have built a relaxed, rural-renaissance lifestyle business that respects nature, is eco-friendly and strives for building sustainability. They serve vegetarian and vegan meals with produce grown on the inn’s land. The inn is a quiet refuge where guests can do their own thing. They can wander the property to see all of the wild birds and animals, engage in a llama stare-down (doesn’t every inn have its own llama!?) or use the inn as a home-base to take-in the rolling countryside, cheese factories and other sites around Monroe. 

 

While on your VocationVacations dream job holiday at Inn Serendipity, John and Lisa will mentor you in some or all of the following activities:

  • Assist and learn about the guest check-in process
  • Plan, prepare and serve breakfasts
  • Harvest organic breakfast ingredients from the inn’s garden
  • Collect eggs from free-range chickens
  • Purchase supplies and food
  • Assist and learn about guest check-out process
  • Receive an overview of guest services for an inn
  • Learn sales & marketing/Internet marketing, PR & local marketing techniques
  • Discover forecasting techniques
  • Review and learn about profit/loss statements
  • Work on straw bale greenhouse project and/or repair buildings (possibly with natural building materials, recycled products, etc.)
  • Assist with housekeeping (change sheets, clean, etc.) using environmentally-friendly options
  • Make biodiesel (used as back-up liquid fuel for back-up heating systems)
  • Adjust photovoltaic modules on the inn’s renewable water system (can’t say you can do that at every inn, right!?)
  • Record data on output from 10 kW Bergey wind turbine system (modern-day windmill)

The Inn Seredipity Innkeeping VocationVacations® holiday includes:

  • Two days of one-on-one mentorship in your dream job
  • The opportunity to participate in a total of one hour of pre- and post-VocationVacation career coaching from an accredited, affiliated VocationVacations career coach
  • A pocket-size VocationVacations journal so you can document your dream job becoming a reality
  • Light lunches with your mentor

Available: All year based on mentor's availability with exception of holiday weekends

Price: $799 Per Person

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Required Accommodations

Inn Serendipity

Two-night minimum stay required (Not included in the price of the VocationVacations® holiday)

Other tourist activities and destinations while on your VocationVacations® adventure:

Reservation, Cancellation and Rescheduling Rules and Conditions:

Full payment of the VocationVacations dream job holiday is required to make a reservation. A $100 non-refundable fee is assessed if a VocationVacations experience is cancelled or rescheduled prior to 14-days of the scheduled VocationVacations holiday, based on the approved availability of the mentor to reschedule. A VocationVacations adventure cannot be rescheduled and is non-refundable if cancelled within 14 days of the scheduled VocationVacations holiday. Written notification of cancellation or rescheduling is required in all cases. In the US, Grounded Nomads, LLC and VocationVacations holidays encourage all customers to acquire travel insurance to cover any unforeseen expenses due to cancellation or rescheduling. In the UK, Grounded Nomads, Ltd and VocationVacations holidays must require all customers to acquire travel insurance to cover any unforeseen expenses due to cancellation or rescheduling and provide verification of such travel insurance to Grounded Nomads, Ltd.

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