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Workers On Wheels Newsletter #1278 ~ January 19, 2020
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Update from Your RV Workers On Wheels Newsletter Editor
Our working-while-RVing lives are fueled by new adventures. Going places we’ve never gone before and doing jobs we’ve never done before keep this life interesting. And, they add new experiences for us to share with you.
While most of our travels involve an RV, we sometimes take off by car, plane, or boat. We are currently off on the latter. We are spending the next couple of weeks aboard the Carnival Freedom. We’re taking a cruise to see the Panama Canal. Other port calls are Grand Cayman, Aruba, Curacao, Limon (Costa Rica), Mahogany Bay, and
Cozumel (Mexico).
Communications while we are gone will be minimal. The newsletters should all go out on time, but will likely be abbreviated. Help Wanted ads should still get posted to the website. Facebook time may be non-existent. We’ll address emails after we return.
We are taking notes, doing interviews, and gathering information throughout the trip. There may even be some pictures!
Wherever you are in your work and travels, we wish you joy and prosperity,
Coleen
Workers On Wheels Editor
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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
Here’s an exercise to help you find work you enjoy. Make a list of your passions, hobbies, recreational activities, and the things you like to do in your spare time. Make a second list of your skills, talents, and job experiences. Cross-reference them. Look for connections. Use the list to brainstorm ideas and ways to match up
items on one list with the other.
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Travel Adventures Mean Varied Work Opportunities
Isn’t every little boy’s dream to work on the railroad? To be that guy with the striped cap, riding the train, waving at the people? Because of our travels, Bob’s not only been able to work on a train, he helped to build one. There are steam trains and tourist railroads throughout the USA, but the one Bob worked for was in the
Black Hills of South Dakota.
What’s it like to work on a shrimping boat? Doesn’t that mean going out for days on end? Nope, it doesn’t. In south Texas, the bait shrimp boats dock within feet of the waterfront RV sites.
Have you ever wondered if there are “green” RV jobs? Planting a million baby trees surely qualifies as that. Whether you mean “green” as good for the environment, or the color, or the money it pays, tree planting is green work. Bob found this seasonal work in lower Alabama.
Would going to Alaska be your “trip of a lifetime” RV trip? While in Alaska, we’ve had museum jobs and worked at RV parks and resorts. Bob also worked at the cruise ship port, as a temporary longshoreman. (Don’t let anyone tell you all jobs for RVers are minimum wage jobs!)
You can read about these working adventures on our websites. They aren’t pie-in-the-sky dreams. When Bob writes about these work experiences he is doing just that—writing about his personal experience.
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.
~ Order processing
~ IT business analyst
~ Matchmaker
~ Motorhome driver for entertainers
~ Organic farms and orchards general labor
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Working RVer Tip
Approach every day at work as an opportunity to learn something. That keeps routine jobs from becoming boring. It also opens you up to seeing new ways of doing things.
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Did You Miss the Last Workers On Wheels Newsletter?
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Working RVer Humor
A bit of working-while-RVing humor from Workers On Wheels:
Q: That RVer who was a builder—what was his favorite kind of paper?
A: Construction paper.
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Have a Job for RVers?
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Working RVer Tip
If you arrive at the job and it isn’t how thought it would be, talk to your manager. An amazing number of things can be worked out, if you take the time and initiative to discuss the issues. It may be a simple misunderstanding that can be quickly cleared up. Even if it is something substantial, a calm discussion can resolve many
concerns.
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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
Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines. ~ Brian Tracy
Our ways of thinking make our happiness or unhappiness, our success or nonsuccess. We can, by effort, change our ways of thinking. ~ H. Emilie Cady
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