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“How do you make money on the road?” is a frequent question many young full-time RVers are asked. Believe it or not, there’s a wide variety of work options to support our roaming lifestyles. Take a look at the video below for my humble point of view on making money on the road and check out these helpful links: Workamper News and CoolWorks.com.
One of the most important things when negotiating a workamping job is clear communication of expectations on both sides. Use this handy workamper job consideration checklist to make sure you’ve covered all the bases before accepting a job and hitting the road.
Do you have a gig you love? Something unique, interesting or downright fabulous? Leave a comment! I love hearing from you with new ideas, comments and questions.
Happy Travels!
Evanne
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Steamboat
Great tips. They work for any soul with wanderlust!
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Nick Russell
For anyone interested in working on the road, I very highly rcommend Jaimie’s book Support Your RV Lifestyle. It is hands down the very best book on the topic that I have ever read, and I have read them all.
Jaimie Hall Bruzenak
I have to agree with Nick that working in an RV park will not earn you much money. You can do much better if income is your goal. My late husband and I began full-time RVing at ages 47. We focused on working in national parks and made from $11-18/hour. We could work half the year and visit family or boondock in the desert the rest of the year.
I always loved hearing the many ways Workampers made money and ended up writing a book about working on the road, Support Your RV Lifestyle! An Insider’s Guide to Working on the Road. Now I earn income from writing and publishing books. There surely are lots of choices. You can try different things and work in different places. It all depends on what you want and need. Jaimie
Jaimie Hall Bruzenak
I have to agree with Nick that working in an RV park will not earn you much money. You can do much better if income is your goal. My late husband and I began full-time RVing at ages 47. We focused on working in national parks and made from $11-18/hour. We could work half the year and visit family or boondock in the desert the rest of the year.
I always loved hearing the many ways Workampers made money and ended up writing a book about working on the road, Support Your RV Lifestyle! An Insider’s Guide to Working on the Road. Now I earn income from writing and publishing books. There surely are lots of choices. You can try different things and work in different places. It all depends on what you want and need. Jaimie
Nick Russell
We began fulltiming 9½ years ago at age 46, with no retirement or other outside income, and have enjoyed every minute of it. We felt we could not generate the income we needed by traditional workamping, so we started our own business. We publish the Gypsy Journal RV Travel newspaper http://www.gypsyjournal.net and I have written several books and numerous booklets on RV travel, including a book titled Work Your Way Across The USA.
An outgrowth of my writing and publishing activities has been teaching seminars at RV rallies and at Life on Wheels. I never would have believed I could be a public speaker, but it has worked out very well, and I have discovered that I really enjoy teaching.
I also have three websites, and generate a few hundred dollars a month from AdSense and other affiliate advertising ventures. I’ve even been paid to develop some simple websites for other people.
To make decent money as you fulltime, you need to think outside the box. I believe that traditional workamping at an RV park is usually one of the worst ways to make a living on the road, in terms of the income generated for the effort expended. There are many other ways you can make more money for the same number of hours worked.
Internet businesses can be very lucrative if approached right. Keep at it Dale, I think we’ll see more and more fulltime RVers starting their own little cottage industries, even if their cottage has wheels under it!
Darrel
I agree Ellen, show me your eyes! I just hate sunglasses personally. Seems people like to hide behind them for some reason. I esp. have to shake my head when I see people wearing them indoors. Enjoyed the video though otherwise. Thanks.
Ellen F
How do you vote if you are a full time RVer? Obviously, you must have a permanent residence somewhere, right?
Also, I would suggest not wearing sunglasses during your video (just a suggestion from someone who speaks to the public regularly).
Otherwise, helpful.
Dale
It is nice to hear from other young Rvers that are not drawing a social security check. I work on the road mostly by doing web development and ecommerce for some steady clients. I also run a few websites and associate programs such as adsense and Amazon (including international ones such as amazon.uk.) and use a number of other methods such as bidding programming jobs on elance, doing odd jobs here and there and such.
I am working on spinning more sites and various web content and getting more traffic to some new web ventures as I really like that method for work camping though I need to gear it up a great deal more.
I’ve found the traditional workcamping – (campground for site and some pay trade off) does not work well for me as they always seem to want couples. I’m just one single fellow, plus they often require at least 3 months, so there goes the whole romance of the on the road again – adventure coolness factor.
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Anyway, nice video post and happy adventures.
Dale