Life on the Road >> Working on the Road

If you decide to take your life on the road, you can choose to make that a traveling and working life. This series of articles will help you understand your options for working on the road, as a contractor or temporary worker, and add some income to your life on the road.

There are many jobs for people living in RVs, called RVers, to work full-time, part-time, or seasonally as they travel or moving from job to job and location to location. If you like the nomad lifestyle, and interested in recreational vehicle life and travel, there are many ways RV workers can make money while RVing!

Living and working on the road is a lifestyle chosen by hundreds of thousands of people. It’s the modern day migrant workers. Many companies need mobile employees, willing to go where the work is. We’ve been living and working on the road since 1996, traveling all over North America and overseas.

Article Highlights


Buying WIFI: The Greed of Expensive Hotels

I've been planning to write a scathing article about the high price of WIFI Internet connections at hotels, motels, and the like for a while, but I can't compete with the brilliance of Respectful Insolence's article, Good WIFI, Bad WIFI:

Most of the hotels that I end up staying at for these meetings are pretty nice [...]

Track Your Packages Online from One Site

Because we travel so much, when we order something online there is a paranoia that the package won't arrive before we make the next trip. Package Mapper is a new service which combines the database information for tracking shipping from UPS, FedX, and other delivery services, with Google Maps. Enter your shipping number and the [...]

Riding With the Urban Mappers

Amazon.com's A9.com Project Team is mapping the United States. Riding With the Urban Mappers tells of how this team of experts developing "block-view technology" which A9.com began this spring, allowing users to "virtually stroll city streets to get directions and identify local businesses."
The group travels via two utility trucks with a video camera on top, [...]

How to be a Short Term Worker

Short-term work is often an excellent way for full-time or short-term travelers to make money while they travel. With the right attitude, the life as a temporary worker is exciting and refreshing. It is filled with new things and challenges every day. You have control over where and when you work. You can stay for as long as you want and leave when you want, depending upon your contract. On the flip side, the employer can dismiss you in an instant, usually without warning or consequences. We have the tips and advice for short term workers who take their work on the road.

Tips for Temps

Temporary workers represent a large part of the work force, and a flexible set of workers. For the full-time or part-time traveler, temporary or short term work is often the best way to go and we have the tips for temps to help.

House on Your Back, You’re Ready for Work

There is something exciting about working on the road. The view outside your window changes frequently. You meet new people every day. If you are up to the challenge and have developed a lifestyle and attitude that doesn't rely upon material objects, and if you are an independent thinker and doer, this could be the life for you.

The Traveling Business

Making the decision to take your business on the road isn't an easy one. First, you must decide if your business qualifies as a mobile one, then think of all the things your business is dependent upon and consider how to bring those into your mobile package. Confining the office area to a specific location in the trailer or motor home helps you separate your business life from your private space.

The Traveling Employee

Millions of people are hired by companies with travel written right into the job description. If you're someone who loves to travel and who has a skill that is portable, the RV lifestyle might be for you.