Carpenter
Position Description
Title: Carpenter
Location: Teaching Drum Outdoor School, Three Lakes, WI
Description: We are seeking a skilled and experienced Carpenter to join our team. As a Carpenter, you you will be leading the construction, maintenance, and renovation of our buildings.
Activities may include:
- Renovate cabins and houses.
- Participate in the ongoing renovation of a building for a natural history museum and library.
- Replace cedar shake and shingle roofs on various structures.
- Build a spiral staircase up an Elder Pine tree.
- Rebuild a deck and ensure structural integrity.
- Replace wooden posts under cabins.
- Collaborate with other staff members to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.
- Maintain a clean and safe work environment while completing projects.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience in carpentry
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints, schematics, and building codes
- Knowledge of various carpentry techniques and tools
- Ability to work independently and lead in a team environment
- Ability to lift heavy materials and work in outdoor environments
Compensation and Life at Teaching Drum: We live a simple lifestyle—heating with wood, eating an organic and partially wild-foraged diet, and living in community with others who enjoy the same. Staff receive room and board, shared vehicle use, utilities, internet, and a $550 stipend/month. Food that is included with room and board is based on a paleo-diet and includes fruit, vegetables, nuts, wild meat, eggs, fat, and wild rice.
If self-motivated to learn wilderness survival skills, including the skills taught in the Wilderness Guide Program (such as fire making, tanning hides, tracking, wild foraging, trapping, woodworking, shelter building, open-fire cooking, way finding, etc.) there is a wealth of clan knowledge to draw upon.
To apply, please e-mail your resume and a cover letter to balance@teachingdrum.org
A way of life
A position at Teaching Drum Outdoor School is more than a job; it’s a lifeway. Staff live on campus as part of an intentional community with a focus on living in a balanced way with nature and self. Authentic communication is a part of our daily practice. We come together as a Circle for healing and celebrating as well as for furthering our mission. There are no time clocks. Staff are self-motivated. Nine-to-five positions exist here only for those who create them.
Compensation
$550 stipend/month, private one-room cabin with wood-fired stove (or room in shared housing), organic and wild foods based on a paleo-diet (fruit, vegetables, nuts, wild meat, eggs, fat, and wild rice), communal spaces (such as kitchen and bathroom), community garden, canoe use, shared vehicle use, discounted courses, utilities, internet.
*An added perk is a complementary one to four week-long wilderness immersion at camp with the current Seekers.*
Staff at Teaching Drum Outdoor School are here because we believe in what we do.
We believe that deep connection with nature facilitates transformation and healing.
Teaching Drum Outdoor School and its growing branches—the Healing Nature Center and Snow Wolf Publishing—are rooted in this common core value.
If self-motivated to learn wilderness survival skills, including the skills taught in the Wilderness Guide Program (such as fire making, tanning hides, tracking, wild foraging, trapping, woodworking, shelter building, open-fire cooking, way finding, etc.) there is a wealth of clan knowledge to draw upon.
PLEASE NOTE: Though many of us love animals, we have a no pet policy (no exceptions). We are a tobacco, alcohol, and drug free community.
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for Teaching Drum Outdoor School. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinions enrich our greater community. We at Teaching Drum Outdoor School fulfill our mission by living in intentional community with all the plant and animal relations, and being inclusive and welcoming of people from every background.
To apply, send an e-mail to balance@teachingdrum.org