Finding work while on the road or at a site?
Very new to this idea of full time RV,ing, in fact we are still researching trailers and trucks, but a big question has come up about finding work on the road. I guess our initial plan would be to RVd...
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As others have mentioned, a lot of RV parks are adverse to people even cleaning their RVs at their site so finding a campground that'll let you weld on site might be challenging, but that's not to say it's impossible. If your friends' place will let you do the work there it could be viable.
I know you could set up "shop" while boondocking in places like Quartzsite where there aren't as many rules, so you may want to think about that. Sadly I know little about welding myself so I can't give you specific tips.
As for the people who say full-timing can't be done before retirement, they're wrong. My first year of full-timing was funded entirely by work-camping. Now I bring in some money through writing, but the majority still comes from seasonal jobs. I work National Parks in the summer (Badlands, Zion, and most recently Yellowstone) and in Amazon's CamperForce program in the fall (one of the CamperForce sites is in Texas, something to think about).
As others have mentioned, Workamper News is a good place to find seasonal jobs, but that one does have a subscription fee. Coolworks.com is how I find my gigs, it's free (no, I'm not affiliated with them in any way). Not all jobs listed there are for RVers, but there's a filter you can turn on to make the RVing ones stand out.
Hope this helps, good luck!
I know you could set up "shop" while boondocking in places like Quartzsite where there aren't as many rules, so you may want to think about that. Sadly I know little about welding myself so I can't give you specific tips.
As for the people who say full-timing can't be done before retirement, they're wrong. My first year of full-timing was funded entirely by work-camping. Now I bring in some money through writing, but the majority still comes from seasonal jobs. I work National Parks in the summer (Badlands, Zion, and most recently Yellowstone) and in Amazon's CamperForce program in the fall (one of the CamperForce sites is in Texas, something to think about).
As others have mentioned, Workamper News is a good place to find seasonal jobs, but that one does have a subscription fee. Coolworks.com is how I find my gigs, it's free (no, I'm not affiliated with them in any way). Not all jobs listed there are for RVers, but there's a filter you can turn on to make the RVing ones stand out.
Hope this helps, good luck!
