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Spring Of 2003, We Need Jobs.


© Barry Houseknecht

My wife and I have made a commitment to each other that the spring of 2003 would be our goal for getting our feet wet as Fulltime RVers. We have lived and traveled in our RV before but it was for relatively short periods and then only as vacationers. Never did we consider the RV to be our only home or even try to earn to earn money on the road. This will be our first venture actually trying to live on the road and trying to earn a living while being on that road.

We are looking to have everything in place to allow us to take that first cautious step and get on the road and workcamp during the 2003 summer season. As that date now quickly approaches we have several "opportunities" (as they say) to explore. One of our biggest but not the only "opportunities" is finding employment that, we will enjoy, or be at least as palatable as the jobs that we have now, and will support us for that summer season.

We have Jones's over many of the employment ads previously. They really sounded great then, but somehow when you are just "looking" the ads seem to read differently than what they do now when we are actually seeking employment. Maybe it is the language in the ads that we don't understand. Some of the ads do seem to have a slang that includes words that we do not yet have in our vocabulary or maybe it is just the fact that we are trying to read more into the ads than the writer intended.

We hope that we are starting our job search early enough for us to find employment at one of the locations that we have selected for our first outing. We feel that by starting our job search now will give us enough time to have contact with the job posters and work out all of the unknowns. We also understand that most likely this job was there last year and we may have to "win" the position away from the workcampers that had the job from last year.

We have seen job ads for everything from circus workers and racetrack workers to campground hosts and restroom cleaners, from modern day wagon masters to cooks at dude ranches. Some of these jobs just do not seem to be for the first timer or for that matter the faint at heart. Others just jump out at you to say that this is exciting and adventures. We feel that we must wade in the shallow waters before we dive into deeper waters.

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