Texas Workamping

[shadowy1]

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Originally Posted by homelesshobo Not trying to change the thread, but I do think the responsibile thing for fulltimers, is to tell it like it is. Here you have a couple that has kids, wants to fulltime. workamp, and make a living while doing it. I did it for 10 years, without a wife or kids and it aint easy. Sure you can workamp and eat beans, you can retire with no savings, little s.s. income due to lost wages and drive a beat up rv. You can get them kids into many different schools, change their friends every year or so. Is that what you are looking for? I sure hope not. Let us try and be honest to these that are reading, talking to, and dreaming of the "good life" . Just plain and simple, workamping for a living is a tough nut to crack and you cannot buy those nutcrackers at walmart.

Perhaps I should give you more information so you can give me advice after knowing ALL the facts. We OWN OUR own business that we already travel for and make an income! We live nicely thank you. We are also outdoor writers and earn an income from that. We have other income as well. So as for financial part of it we would be fine. And not just eating beans. Getting part time jobs or workkamping would be fun.

As for our children they are homeschooled (legally) and therefore changing schools or making new friends is not an issue.

Perhaps full time RVing is not the word to use. Perhaps it's something else. We'd be in our home state w/ friends and family several months and then in other states with family other months. TX would be nice our daughter is there.

I thank you for your oppinion and advice and being honest in the fact that it has not worked out so well for you. It's good to hear the success stories and the trials as well.

Oh and "the good life" to one person may not be "the good life" to another.

We already travel every weekend and do so with kids and dogs and in a tent. By choice. We just felt it was time to move up to an RV (no not a clunker!) and we won't be eating nuts or crackers from walmart.

Oh and if it did not work out one can always go back to a 9 to 5 job and buy a brick and motor house but we tend to be original.

[mick]

What kind of rv do you have and do you have a house now or rent?

[mick]

I did not think I would get an answer. Are you not posting on rvnet about free or almost free campgrounds, etc?

[mick]

......................still waiting............................

[jdny]

your right homeless hobo workcamping is noway to try to make a living for a famly that would really be hard to do

[ryan1980]

ok i am 30 years old fulltime rver and we done workamping but we dont do them any more becease two camps grounds we work at. works us like slaves small pay we are not old or retired we need cash to live on. then this nice lady help us with this site called gti site maps and we love it so much we get free two weeks stay at any camp ground we like and sell mapsto them and ad,s.. pro,s gas paided for great tax right off we been doing this 6 mouths we made more cash doing this old jobs in a week that toke us mouth to make in old life