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http://www.alternet.org/culture/workamping-new-vagabond-lifestyle-living-rv-and-chasing-seasonal-jobsDuncan and Jessica from Traveling On The Outskirts, their workamper video series.
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For anyone who dreams of living on the road like a mid-life version of Jack Kerouac, theres the tale of Duncan and Jessica. Their spunky YouTube series, Traveling On The Outskirts, followed the pair as they crisscrossed America and made their RV home.
We lived like like everybody else. We had a house, a car payment, a big TV, and a regular 9-to-5 job to try and pay for it, Jessica gleefully confesses, in each episodes opening. One day we got rid of it all to live life on the road, chimes in Duncan, who looks like 1970s rocker. And now we are leaving mainstream society and making everyday different and traveling on the outskirts.
The couple worked in advertising. Season Two, Episode Nine is Workamping & Making Cash While Fulltime RVing. Jessica, hair tied back, gets right down to it. A lot of people think you have to be a millionaire to live this lifestyle. In fact, its the opposite, she begins. Youre living on less, and therefore you can make less, and live just the same lifestyleexcept for youre on the road. So now were going to talk about all the different ways that you can make money while RVing.
Option one is workamping. The term was created by Workamper.com, which is dedicated to the lifestyle of living in the road in RVs or campers and working seasonal jobs to keep moving. Traveling On The Outskirts is just one of many websites extolling the freedom of tossing a cautionary life to the wind and finding breathtaking scenery, camraderie, and spiritual rejuvenation as a motoring voyager. Maybe you were a gypsy, vagabond or hobo in a past life, but you think you could never afford to live the life of freedom you long for? says cheaprvliving.coms homepage, a go-to site for how to join this band.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)For years.
We have many campgrounds on forest service land that are manned only in the summer.
The "hosts" come with their own RV and are paid. At the end of the summer the campgrounds close and the hosts head south to do the same down there.
I worked (xray tech) with a gal that planned on doing this at retirement. That was 20 years ago.
onethatcares
(16,188 posts)another "reality" show.
Riddle me this. If getting a part time job requires one to get a background check, do a urinalysis, and credit check, how long
is it going to take to actually get something that actually pays enough for gas and three hot meals?
If you pass some of those RV parks, you'll see them filled to the brim. How many people are they going to hire?
I think these producers have way too much time on their hands.