SueJean
Active Member
WARNING: This post may offend a few people!
(However, as DH likes to say, "If the shoe fits.............)
I'd like to preface this by saying that we've only been "full-timing" since June '09 and I know that a lot of you have been "on the road" a lot longer and seen a whole lot more of what goes on in the "RV'er's world". I realize I have a "small perspective".
As part of my education process, I spend a lot of time reading RV'ers forums/blogs/travelogues, etc. We've looked into a lot of the different work-kamping options and tried both workkamping and volunteering as a way of earning some money and keeping busy/active. Some things have been good, some not so good.
One thing that we're finding as a "common thread" in our experiences, however, isn't so good. As we've been traveling around, we find campgrounds/parks/rv resorts that really need help/staff.
When we ask them if they ever thought about workkampers, we get told the same thing every time. "Yeah, we used to have "those kind of people", but we don't want them anymore." (This is usually said with heavy overtones of anger/disgust.)
The next obvious question is "Why?" and I'm usually too slow-witted to avoid asking it.
The answer is almost always the same. "We hated having these people come in to "work" and they would always try to tell us how to "do things better"."
We love full-timing and workkamping and we hope that there will be plenty of job opportunities for everyone..........................
(However, as DH likes to say, "If the shoe fits.............)
I'd like to preface this by saying that we've only been "full-timing" since June '09 and I know that a lot of you have been "on the road" a lot longer and seen a whole lot more of what goes on in the "RV'er's world". I realize I have a "small perspective".
As part of my education process, I spend a lot of time reading RV'ers forums/blogs/travelogues, etc. We've looked into a lot of the different work-kamping options and tried both workkamping and volunteering as a way of earning some money and keeping busy/active. Some things have been good, some not so good.
One thing that we're finding as a "common thread" in our experiences, however, isn't so good. As we've been traveling around, we find campgrounds/parks/rv resorts that really need help/staff.
When we ask them if they ever thought about workkampers, we get told the same thing every time. "Yeah, we used to have "those kind of people", but we don't want them anymore." (This is usually said with heavy overtones of anger/disgust.)
The next obvious question is "Why?" and I'm usually too slow-witted to avoid asking it.
The answer is almost always the same. "We hated having these people come in to "work" and they would always try to tell us how to "do things better"."
We love full-timing and workkamping and we hope that there will be plenty of job opportunities for everyone..........................