Support
Your RV Lifestyle! An Insider's Guide to Working on the Road ,
by Jaimie Hall
Since its first appearance in 2002, Jaimie's
Hall's Support Your RV Lifestyle! has set the standard
for books about living and working on the road. This new edition
is updated and expanded to include even more resources than
the original - and the original was already a treasure trove
of practical wisdom, advice, and tools for doing exactly what
the title declares you can do: Support your RV Lifestyle!
An added feature of the new addition is the info-packed companion
CD, which includes job-finding tips and success techniques as
well as 13 more articles by Jaimie Hall. Two ebooks are also
on the CD: Taking the Mystery Out Of Retiring to an RV
by Alice Zyetz and Malia's
RV Checklist by Malia Lane.
Not only for dreamers who are
just beginning to think about living and working on a roll,
this book is a great resource for those who are already familiar
with the RV lifestyle. With over a decade of experience living
and working on the road, Jaimie Hall shares her own extensive
knowledge as well as advice from many others who have discovered
a wide range of fascinating and fulfilling ways to generate
income while full-timing.
The book is divided into five
sections. In the first, Hall gives an overview of the challenges
and rewards of full-timing while working and offers tools
for figuring out how to decide what kind of employment to
seek and how much income will be required. Section 2 provides
the "nitty gritty" of how to find jobs, how to stay
in touch and use a computer and the Internet while traveling
and job hunting, how to develop a resume, how to negotiate
compensation, and what tax and legal issues are important.
Hall explains how to start a job-seeking notebook and how
to do the kind of "homework" that will bring the
best results.
Section 3 lists over 350 money-generating
possibilities suitable for RVers, from seasonal jobs in national
parks to operating a small business. Hall explains how to
find and apply for all the jobs she lists and includes plenty
of wisdom from people who have been successfully employed
in a wide variety of capacities while RVing. In locations
from Antarctica to Alaska, fulltime RVers have served as dog
show judges, NASCAR officials, RV delivery drivers, advertising
salespeople, mystery shoppers, circus workers, writers, rangers,
tour guides, pilots, inspectors, teachers… the list goes
on, and the opportunities are real. As Hall explains, the
challenge is not finding employment. It's finding the job
that gives you what you want, both in terms of compensation
and location as well as personal fulfillment. Mixed in with
all the concrete suggestions are tremendously valuable caveats
about what to avoid. A "free campsite," for example,
can sound like a wonderful bonus until an easy calculation
reveals that it might really amount to working for $2 an hour.
Tips like this can make a steep learning curve far less formidable.
Section 4 covers RV expenses
and a variety of issues facing fulltiming workers. The budgeting
information is detailed and comprehensive, providing an excellent
platform that can be tailored to individual circumstances.
The last section of the books includes extensive appendices
and lists of resources.
For anyone who loves the idea
of spending a summer in Alaska or a winter in the Everglades
but always assumed it was financially impossible, Jaimie Hall
shows how anyone with determination and the kind of knowledge
this book provides can make it happen. Some books are known
for inspiring readers to let their dreams take flight. This
one brings them down to earth and sets them on a roll.
Megan
Edwards
10/29/06
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