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Rlaubert
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Jun 21, 2013

Getting Started, Experience, finding a place, what to expect

Next May, I turn 62 and with my Military retirement, Early SS and our side business, my wife and I are going to hit the road after 10 years of full-time RVing but being employed and stationary.
We want to supplement our income with some work camping, however, we have little experience to bring to the table.
My questions:
1. How do you find open positions?
2. How do you present the limited experience?
3. What is a fair exchange of my time to what they will offer? I have been a fairly well paid for many years and I know my 'compensation' won't be in that range, but 80-160 (husband and wife) hours a month for a $500 lot seems out of wack.
4. What hidden benefits do you find work camping? (Social, educational, entertainment)?

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  • We prefer state parks so we just looked at the area we wanted to try the workamping life, called the state park we wanted and asked for the volunteer coordinator. We had a resume prepared highlighting what we had to offer for the state park environment and never needed to give to anyone. The coordinator told us what was needed (filling out a simple application for the background check) and we were off and running.

    We continue to get gigs by just calling the park that looks interesting and going from there. Works for us.

    P.S. We are both Navy retired living the good life.