How to finance yourself while RVing fulltime?
Lets say you just bought a RV. You don't have much money left after buying her though. But you want to hit the road NOW, not in 5-10 years. What are the best ways to support yourself while RVing fullt...
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Not yet heard from the OP, but the key to making money while moving around at will is to be an entrepeneur rather than an employee. There are not all that many employers who can let you be where you want to be, rather than where they need you to be. There are jobs that require you to move around from one job location to another, and sometimes an RV facilitates that (a relative who services nuclear power plants, usually a 2-3 month job, has just bought a trailer, to get away from the cheap motels he has been living in for years). That's not the same as going where you want to go.
You could make yourself the Rick Steve of RV travel and produce, star in, a travel show. All you have to do is sell the idea to financial backers.
You could be another Mike Wolfe. He didn't start out as a picker (that would be Frank), rather he was a producer of TV shows, specializing in reality formats, and "picking" and the antique business grew out of that. All he had to do was sell the idea to financial backers, but he did have a good track record.
Traveling independent sales representative is another good idea, doesn't earn as much as producing a TV series, but it can beat working part time for minimum wage (or less), if you are good at selling.
Search on "enterpeneur ideas" and follow some of the leads. Some will lead to web sites on how to become "independently wealthy" if you just pay them to teach you their ideas. (The idea that works for them is getting you to pay). But there are others pointing out work that needs to be done by people who can bring the skills and resources to solve a problem, or sell a solution to a problem.
At the minimum, one could get into the telephone solicitation business, so long as you have a mobile phone and can confine your travel to mobile service areas. About 1/4 of the solicitors calling me lately are coming from mobile numbers. I personally would not want to do that work (though a computer now does most of it for you), yet many people make a living, and most are working for themselves.
You could make yourself the Rick Steve of RV travel and produce, star in, a travel show. All you have to do is sell the idea to financial backers.
You could be another Mike Wolfe. He didn't start out as a picker (that would be Frank), rather he was a producer of TV shows, specializing in reality formats, and "picking" and the antique business grew out of that. All he had to do was sell the idea to financial backers, but he did have a good track record.
Traveling independent sales representative is another good idea, doesn't earn as much as producing a TV series, but it can beat working part time for minimum wage (or less), if you are good at selling.
Search on "enterpeneur ideas" and follow some of the leads. Some will lead to web sites on how to become "independently wealthy" if you just pay them to teach you their ideas. (The idea that works for them is getting you to pay). But there are others pointing out work that needs to be done by people who can bring the skills and resources to solve a problem, or sell a solution to a problem.
At the minimum, one could get into the telephone solicitation business, so long as you have a mobile phone and can confine your travel to mobile service areas. About 1/4 of the solicitors calling me lately are coming from mobile numbers. I personally would not want to do that work (though a computer now does most of it for you), yet many people make a living, and most are working for themselves.
