Like Kirk, we took an early retirement {so to speak) when we sold our specialized trucking business the beginning of 2015. We already had our 5er and the HDT, so we were all set to begin our travels as fulltime RVers workkamping along the way. But we quickly learned that 95% of the workkamping positions out there for us (the inexperienced ones getting into the workforce) were in no way going to help sustain us financially, even though we both draw meager government retirements. No sooner had we disposed of the stick and bricks, a wonderful job offer right in the city where our house was came my wife's way. One that a person would be an absolute fool to turn down.
OK, 1-great job for the wife, no permanent house in the area, great fulltime RV to live in at a resort/campground. That will will work! So that's exactly what we did. I found a part time job doing data entry for the same company my wife was working for that I could do at home in the RV. GREAT! Now we're better set financially, and if need be, I could take the data entry job with me anywhere we chose to move. Then it came, the offer for my current fulltime job with the state managing one of their state trailheads and campground. April of 2015 is when it came and I I would have been a fool to turn down simply because we originally planned to travel as fulltime RVers. Once excepting that job, the deal was pretty much sealed that we had just made ourselves "Stationary RVers".
So what do we do for the state and do we love it? I'm gonna answer the second part first by saying, "Heck yes, couldn't be much happier!" Like any job, this too has its few inherent issues, but overall it is the most fun and relaxing one I've ever had in my life! I work four 10-hr days and have 3-consecutive days off and I'm paid for a forty hour work week every week. There is no sweat equity for a campsite plus utilities in this arrangement, even though both are provided at no cost to us. In return, I simply check our guest in/out of their campsites, clean the campsites between guest, guide them to the entrances of our trailheads, and answer any questions they have regarding our property, etc. As far as cleaning restrooms and mowing, that is contracted out, so we simply monitor our restroom and shower house on a regular basis and pick up as needed. Although we have to open the front gate at 7:00am every morning without fail, and close it again at 7:00pm, our work day does not feel like we are working a 9-5 job, as I can work and rest any time of the day that I choose because there is no set time (other than the gate) that something has to be done by in the list of our daily chores.