The Workamper Show Podcast

The Boulders at Lake Tyler, near Whitehouse, Texas, is a 239-acre RV park with 44 RV sites and a few cabins, glamping sites and text spaces. It caters to guests staying less than 14 days.

Originally from Denver and now living in Savannah, Ga., Craig and Sharon Butts are part-time Workampers committed to helping couples strengthen their relationships as well as encouraging more African Americans to experience the RV lifestyle.

Jessica said it is relatively easy work, but gate guards must be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In return, they earn a base rate of $200 per day and receive a free full-hookup RV site.

My first interview is with Laura Paul, the executive director of lowernine.org. It is a long-term disaster-recovery site located in a low-income neighborhood in New Orleans that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina and related flooding. My second interview is with Virginia Hamilton, an outreach and volunteer specialist, with The Nature Conservancy. She is looking for Workampers to serve as guest ambassadors, and someone with trade skills to help with a special project.

The company needs Workampers for a variety of jobs from housekeeping to camp hosts. They also help with landscaping and mowing, pool maintenance, taking reservations and serving guests in the camp stores. Some properties have food service operations that need Workampers as well.

However, Healthy Nomads is not insurance. It is a membership-based healthcare program specifically created for RVers and other frequent travelers. It offers significant savings to traditional health insurance plans. There are three main components to Healthy Nomads.

There are no contracts to work at Adventureland. You can work just part of the season and move on or stay until the season ends in October. Workampers are needed to help with the rides, serve and prepare food, and to keep the park clean. All jobs are paid.

Tom predicts Outdoor Adventures will need to hire a total of 75 Workampers this summer serving in positions at all 11 resorts. All of the jobs are paid at wages starting at $10.10 per hour, but Workampers enjoy a totally-free RV site with full hookups. Best of all, Workampers get full access to all resort amenities when they aren’t working.

The issue of domicile appears to be more complex than people realize, especially if they say their domicile is in one state, but everything else suggests they intend to return to another state when they come off the road.

People will be working at a convention center, stadium and arena often selling food and beverages. They may be involved in preparing food, working as runners who deliver food, or serving in supervisory capacities.

Many people think they need to plan 14 steps ahead and, consequently, get caught up in the process of meticulous planning for every step and every contingency. Kristy calls that a real dream killer. She encourages people to just take one step and then, from that vantage point, determine the next step to take.

As they got older, Michael and Andrea both realized climbing as high as they could on a corporate ladder wasn’t nearly as fulfilling as hiking through a national forest and looking at waterfalls. If they scaled back their lifestyle, they could have more journeys if they weren’t devoted to accumulating more stuff.