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Workers On Wheels Newsletter #1259 ~ September 8, 2019
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Update from Your RV Workers On Wheels Newsletter Editor
Have you heard of the “job jar” system? That’s how one of our readers describes how they get their next task. He works at a pioneer settlement, where the jobs are many and quite varied. In the story he shares with us, he also tells how his wife, an avid quilter, came to finish a quilt started in 1900. Read his story on the Workers On Wheels website.
Wherever you are in your work and travels, we wish you joy and prosperity,
Coleen
Workers On Wheels Editor
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JR Watkins - A Location Independent Business for RVers
Sell J. R. Watkins natural products. Bob and I have been Independent Consultants with Watkins since 2005. People love the pure seasonings, old-time remedies, natural skin care, and natural cleaning products. It's an old Minnesota company, with products still made in the USA. They are not tested on animals. The business is extremely flexible. You do as much or as little as you want. No minimum orders. They'll
drop-ship orders to your customers for you. Work the business wherever your RV travels take you -- USA or Canada.
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Help Wanted Ads - Current Job Openings for RVers
See the current Help Wanted ads posted on the Workers On Wheels website. You do not need to pay to see the job postings on our website. You have access to the entire ads, including contact information for the employers.
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Working RVer Tip
Be proactive. If you want to work at a particular campground, tourist attraction, or other business, contact them. Rather than waiting to hear they have an opening, take the initiative to let them know you are available and what you can offer.
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Christmas Tree Sales and Other Holiday Tree Industry Jobs
Working Christmas tree farms and sales lots are one way RVers make a sizeable chunk of money in a few weeks. Besides selling, someone assembles wreaths, makes deliveries, and gives farm tours.
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Earn Your Living with a Blog or Website
A blog or website is yet another way to earn a living without being tied to one location. Your blog can be about most anything. Picking a topic that you enjoy can make it seem more like fun than work. Still, you have to figure out a way to make money with it. SoloBuiltIt! (SBI!) is an all-in-one program that guides you from picking a profitable website topic, to building the actual site, to keeping up with
ever-changing technology. Yes, we use SIB! for our Workers On Wheels website.
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A Good Working Camper: A Campground Owner's View
A good working camper does some things and avoids doing others. Here's a campground owner who tells it like it is, with very specific things that campground workers should not do while work camping.
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Ways RVers Make Money
Here's a sampling of the kinds of work RVers are doing to cut their expenses, earn a living, and pay for their travels.
~ First aid personnel
~ Professional singer
~ Fix computers
~ Gold panning
~ Laundry service for RVers -- at campgrounds where there are many working men there alone, and at those with many elderly who can't lug their laundry out to do it
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Volunteer Work Opportunities for RVers
Volunteer opportunities abound for working RVers. Some full-time RVers are full-time volunteers, matching their interests with the volunteer positions. They go from one volunteer assignment to the next, living on-site. Some of us need income from our work, so we have paying jobs or RV-based businesses, and we donate our time, talents, and labors during our free time.
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Working RVer Tip
Put all of your purchases on a credit card and you will have an easy to read, concise list of your expenditures. It will show the dates of the purchases. In many instances, it will also show the location. If you are keeping track of your expenses and whereabouts for income tax purposes, this provides another layer of documentation.
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Did You Miss the Last Workers On Wheels Newsletter?
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Have a Job for RVers?
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Working RVer Tip
I've asked campground owners how they decide how many hours of work to ask for in exchange for a site. A common answer is that they go by what they see in other ads. They also tend to ask on the high side, expecting that workers will negotiate a deal with fewer hours.
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Want to Know More About Our Personal RV Travels?
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Questions and Answers about Working While RVing
Search our Workers On Wheels website data base of questions, with answers provided by RVers who actually have experience working while RVing.
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Work Wanted Ads and Resumes from Working RVers Looking for Jobs
If you are an RVer looking for work, you are welcome to post your Work Wanted ad or full resume on our Workers On Wheels website. There is no charge to you for this service.
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Facebook Friends and Fans
~ If you'd like more personal updates and jokes that I post, send me a friend request.
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Something to Think About
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. ~ Maya Angelou
Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ~ William Morris
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