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Sissy7378 · 11-08-2005, 09:42 AM

My partner, Roger, and I have been full timing for 3 1/2 years and love it. Have worked at sevral workamper jobs. You can join Workamper and get info each day on current jobs and a bi-monthly magazine with lots of jobs. It helps with the Social Security especially with gas so high. Some jobs are good and some are bad but you can move on down the road. We only work for jobs that have some pay along with site, utilities, etc.

Sissy7378 · 11-08-2005, 09:42 AM

My partner, Roger, and I have been full timing for 3 1/2 years and love it. Have worked at sevral workamper jobs. You can join Workamper and get info each day on current jobs and a bi-monthly magazine with lots of jobs. It helps with the Social Security especially with gas so high. Some jobs are good and some are bad but you can move on down the road. We only work for jobs that have some pay along with site, utilities, etc.

Fxrscotty · 11-09-2005, 01:06 PM

Welcome to the site Sissy. I think it's great that you have been able to offset the cost by working. I hope to be able to do the same some day. (in ten years or so) i have been practicing announcing bike and trackter pulls several times a year. We get a free site , electric and paid for the gig. Working out pretty well so far. scotty.

Workers On The Go · 11-10-2005, 01:36 AM

Sissy, Welcome to the forum. I hope you will share some of your experiences with us.

Fxrscotty, I just wanted to say that "announcing bike and trackter pulls" sounds like a great workamping job. How does someone get into that business?

~WOTG~

Sissy7378 · 11-10-2005, 07:07 PM

Have had good experiences and bad ones but manage to get through them. We have done paid and also volunteer in a state park. Like the pay better and most the volunteer are for short sessions. Only left one job early and it was not what they told us at all and that is when I learned to be sure you understand and have it in writing. Also had a camp ground sell after we took the job and our duties did change and not for the better. However, we stuck it out and decided not to return for the next year. I think you need to get a couple days off in a row or even more. Right now we work three eight hour days followed by four days off. It is in FL and we can visit family or take trips on our days off. We get our FHU site, $5 week towards laundry and each $7.50 an hour. Also we are at a fish camp so get a lot of fish free which makes it even better. More later.

Fxrscotty · 11-11-2005, 12:00 PM

workersonthego, first you buy a pulling sled,then you get people interested in pulling it, then you sell it with the condition you stay on as the announcer, then you meet a lot of nice people and have a good time. Oh yah it helps if you are a good BS artist! See it's easy. Scotty.

Mark Bento · 11-11-2005, 01:30 PM

Hi all wife is school teacher and we just purchased a 2000 Winnebago Adventurer 35U she is trying to get started in workcamping so that I can drive the MOHO to the campgroung set it up and leave her and the kids there On my days off I would be able to come up and stay with her. she is looking for campgrounds in the Mass area to do this anyone have any words of wisdom for us.

Gary RVRoamer · 11-13-2005, 11:28 AM

Mark,
Join workamper.com and watch for ads from campgrounds in the Mass area. Something suitable will turn up.

What sort of job is your wife prepared to do? And on what terms?

Mark Bento · 11-13-2005, 11:38 AM

As a school teacher who teaches SpedEd she can do almost anything. she cant swim so she would not take a job dealing with that but she has told me that from desk work to rec work she would like to do she really would not like to clean the bathrooms and wish for a full site water elec septic some cash and a few days off to enjoy it thats all.

Sissy7378 · 11-14-2005, 02:14 AM

He is so right just get on Workamper and there will be something. Their bi-monthly magazine has lots of jobs in almost every state. Also there are state park jobs, federal park jobs, etc. Another place is KOA as they have jobs for their parks listed or you can just put your resumes on both sites and you will get responses but not as fast as doing it on your own. We have done it for several years now.