Having a hard time with full timing
Hello, Let me first give you some background. I am a married women- my husband has had this idea of living in an RV traveling around the US for years. He had a mandatory retirement date, so when it...
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I understand your feeling of instability. Last year my husband of 34 years divorced me and I had nowhere to go. I wasn't working, my kids and grands live elsewhere, and I was adrift. My world as I knew it was gone, but because I always wanted to travel the country I bought a small rig, found a volunteer gig at a national park, and spent five months there last summer. It was my salvation. I met the nicest people, had a place to stay for free the whole time (I was also terrified about money along with everything else), and produced some excellent work for them. I spent another couple of months at another national park in the winter, and am now back where I was last year.
You don't have to only be a campground host, not that there's anything wrong with that. Some friends I made have done that and loved it. But another popular job is working at the visitor desk, answering questions, giving information, and meeting people from a all over. I am a librarian and archivist and at this park I've done exactly my kind of work.
I highly recommend this lifestyle. You stay put for a couple to several months, cut your expenses, have time to explore the country around your park (generally, you work 32 hours a week and have three days in a row off), and do productive, needed work.
You don't have to only be a campground host, not that there's anything wrong with that. Some friends I made have done that and loved it. But another popular job is working at the visitor desk, answering questions, giving information, and meeting people from a all over. I am a librarian and archivist and at this park I've done exactly my kind of work.
I highly recommend this lifestyle. You stay put for a couple to several months, cut your expenses, have time to explore the country around your park (generally, you work 32 hours a week and have three days in a row off), and do productive, needed work.
