Work Camping. Is it right for you?

Work Camping is a great way for Campers, who travel in their RV for long periods of time and want make a little money to supplement their travels while they do so.

There are literally thousands of campgrounds around the country that have jobs for part-time workers.

Work Camping Benefits

These campgrounds will typically pay a low salary, around minimum wage, and some will even give them a discounted price on a campsite while they work for them.

During their Peak Season they will generally require a 40-hour work-week, and in the off-season they may only give you a 20-hour work-week.

As a Work-Camper, you are not legally considered a permanent employee but you would be a temporary employee. And this status depends on which state you are working in.

In most of these campgrounds that use temporary Work-Campers, you will only be allowed to work for up to six months before you must move on.

Work Camping jobs

These Work-Camping jobs exist because campground owners always need extra employees to perform low-impact labor around the campground to keep things operating well.

The most common jobs Work Campers are needed for are;

Check-In Clerks
Reservation Clerks
Customer Relations Clerks
Electricians
Plumbers
Landscape Maintenance personnel
Laundry personnel
Housekeeping personnel

There are other tasks that come up in campgrounds, but these are the most common jobs that need workers regularly


So, if you are interested in Work Camping, and feel you're good at these tasks and especially if you have experience doing these jobs before in another campground,
Click on the link below to read my article on HubPages where I explain Work Camping and read more details about this special lifestyle.

Work Camping to pay for your travels

by Don Bobbitt

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Your RV Generator and How it Works - Tips on Maintenance

Many of the larger RV campers today have built-in generators.

These generators will typically operate on the motorhome's fuel system while owners of towed campers will have a portable generator they can use.

Portable Generator - pic by Marion Doss via Flickr

Below is a link to my article on my HubPage site that provides a short history on the evolution of RVs and their use of generators.

It then goes into how Gas and Diesel Generators function differently and provides some tips on the proper maintenance of your RV Generator.

Also, I have included links to a couple of very good YouTube videos that are full of tips on RV Generator maintenance.

Having a HOME-BASE Campsite

Our New USED Camper on our new HOME-BASE Site

Not too ago, I had some health problems and my wife and I knew we wouldn't be traveling much for several years.

We still loved the traveling lifestyle and we really hated doing it, but we sold our motorhome and then tried to come up with what we would do with the money.

Changing our Camping Lifestyle

Don and Helen checking out a Tiki Bar

We knew we could no longer jump from campground to campground anytime we wanted.

But, we still had places we wanted to visit. Sure, some of them we could just drive to or fly to, spend a few days and that would be it for that place, maybe forever.

After a few months of racking our brains, a fellow RVer told us to just put our RV on a site central to places we wanted to visit regularly and call it our Home-Base

We talked about it and we were excited over this idea because it fit what we needed perfectly.

Most of your family and friends were living in Virginia because that's where we were from originally. And, putting a camper there would allow us to be with our family whenever we wanted, but we could also take short hops from that central location and feel like we were traveling again.

A Camping Home-Base

So, decision made, we decided to drop back and get ourselves a nice used camper and place it on a Home-Base site of our own. Then, we could drive up to Virginia and use our camper whenever we wanted to enjoy that camping lifestyle. At the same time we could plan less trips but still visit those places nearby we hadn't seen in years

As I said, our children and grand-children live in Virginia and one of our requirements was that we wanted to be able to see them as much as possible.
After a little shopping we found a campground where we could rent a site full-time at a reasonable annual cost.

While we were looking for a site, we had also been shopping for a good but reasonable priced camper to use when we visited our Home-Site.
It took us several months of shopping and a lot of disappointing deals that fell through, but we finally got a camper that filled our needs and had it hauled by a guy that hauls campers for people to our Home-Base.

Oh, I guess I should mention that for campers to have a Home-Base campground is not a new idea. In fact , over the years, I have met numerous older campers who had decided on doing the very same thing. And I don't just mean Full-Timers who who usually do not own a fixed home anymore. I mean Most-Timers and even Part-Timers.

The concept of having a Home-Base just seems to suit a lot of campers, to go to a Home-Base rather than hop around the more commercial campgrounds.

Anyway, the picture you see here, was taken a few weeks after I had my camper placed onto my site. As you can see, the only thing that I have done, at that point, was have my Son-in-Law build me a temporary set of steps to make getting in and out of our camper easier.

We improved our site over the next couple of years and eventually, we had what was essentially a very "homey" second home, that we could visit any time we wanted, year-round.

My health improved after a few years and we actually sold that camper and purchased ourselves a nice older motorhome that we are still using to travela dn camp when we get the urge.

So, if you just don't want to drive a camper around the country, but still want to see other sites than what you have at home, think about setting up a Home-Base in a location that you want to call your second home.

by Don Bobbitt

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