behensley
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Is workamping just working at camp grounds or does that include people that are working full time, living and traveling with their RV and such.
I am a nurse and would like to find out if there are others that travel and work with their nursing careers. What advice would you have?
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WTTCS
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First step, google travel nurse on this very forum and read. May take a day, but well worth reading. Many on here are travel nurses , as my wife is. The threads you receive will be of a big help.
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Galvorien52
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Agree with WTTCS (as I so often do!) that there are valuable threads on the subject. My DH is a traveling surg tech and if you need any help we'd be happy to give it. Lots of us use our rvs to travel with - beats a hotel room for 13 weeks at a time!
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And seasonal Park Rangers. 
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Jayco-noslide
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Generally, I look at Workamping as either working or volunteering somewhere while living in your RV and usually it is for an employer that provides an RV site or subsidizes a site as part of the deal. Also, usually the employer hires couples together and actively tries to recruit RVers. Usually, the work is temporary and seasonal. To me, anyone could potentially work anywhere at any job and just live in their RV but if someone ask me what workamping is that wouldn't be it. Also, most workampers are senior retirees but there are obviously no rules or laws governing the term.
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Jayco-noslide
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PS_ Definitely it is not just at campgrounds. We have workamped for 6 summers and always at retail stores serving national park visitors; never at a campground.
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wandering mike
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I agree with what Jayco-noslide said. It is more than living in an RV and having a job, but it isn't limited to working in campgrounds. And there must be (for me) a concept of traveling around too.
I telecommute from my RV in performing the same work I did before I semi-retired, but don't consider that workcamping since the work is the same where ever I am. I guess for myself I also don't really consider volunteering quite to be workcamping either, since volunteering is not (or shouldn't be) work, but a pleasure. I guess we are somewhat into semantics there though that don't need to have time spent on them here.
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Kirk
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There are as many ways to live and work in an RV as there are to do so from any other type of home.
There are some who work in nursing as you do, but that isn't at all the only field such as that. We have friends who do short term positions as design engineers, one electrical and one mechanical. I know two who work as seasonal rangers for the NPS. I also know one who is a roofer and one who is a carpenter. Another manages a store in a mall for See's Candy each Christmas season and I have met one who does the same for Hickory Farm sausages.
Then there are many who work via the computer and some even run their own business in that way. One of the best known is a good friend of mine, Nick Russel who is owner and editor of the Gypsy Journal.
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GoneCamping
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I think the technical difference between workamping and being a worker that lives in a camper (or full timing) is that the workamper receives a site and possible some money & other perks as part of the compensation for their efforts, where as campers that work in private sector jobs are paying for their site from money earned elsewhere.
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DS&J
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I fully agree with the last post. We live and work on the road in the
telecom industry but we are not workampers.When we are working outside
the location we are staying in it is not workkamping.
We do during lean times do volunteer work for site at different places
to defray costs until we get more work.That is Workamping.
Now ,all that being said I wish they would make a seperate topic on this forum for those of us who " Live and Work On The Road "
While %80 of the things we need to know or understand are already taken care of in these forums, there are still things that only pertain to those whose lives are made living on the road.
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