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| ===== Seasonal work ===== | ===== Seasonal work ===== |
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| | [[https://www.coolworks.com/|Coolworks]] has listings of a lot of interesting seasonal jobs in interesting places. |
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| Many hotels and towns that are in or around National Parks in the Western states will need to hire staff for housekeeping, front desk, kitchen and retail positions for only 3-4 months of the year, and many will even provide basic housing. There's also often seasonal jobs with the National Park Service directly, doing trail maintenance or other minor construction work. It's very normal for the people doing these jobs to live in vans or RVs in the campgrounds while working, and the locations are typically very beautiful with lots of outdoor rec opportunities. | Many hotels and towns that are in or around National Parks in the Western states will need to hire staff for housekeeping, front desk, kitchen and retail positions for only 3-4 months of the year, and many will even provide basic housing. There's also often seasonal jobs with the National Park Service directly, doing trail maintenance or other minor construction work. It's very normal for the people doing these jobs to live in vans or RVs in the campgrounds while working, and the locations are typically very beautiful with lots of outdoor rec opportunities. |
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| Ski Resorts are another frequent location that needs a lot of temporary jobs filled during the ski season which don't have a lot of preexisting requirements. They'll also often provide accommodation, giving the nomad a chance to settle down for a few months and earn some money before bouncing onto their next adventure. | Ski Resorts are another frequent location that needs a lot of temporary jobs filled during the ski season which don't have a lot of preexisting requirements. They'll also often provide accommodation, giving the nomad a chance to settle down for a few months and earn some money before bouncing onto their next adventure. |
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| | ==== Parachute Packing ==== |
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| Very large skydiving dropzones are a great place to find seasonal gig work [[https://www.reddit.com/r/vandwellers/comments/143hfkl/job_suggestion_learn_to_pack_parachutes/|packing parachutes]], and dropzones are often //highly// accepting of van-life. Plenty of skydivers themselves live in vans, and many dropzones have campgrounds attached to them with varying levels of amenities. It's a highly physical job but isn't hard to learn, and can pay very well (often in cash). You don't need to be a skydiver to pack parachutes, although usually spending a lot of time at a dropzone leads to a desire to start skydiving (which leads to spending all your money). | Very large skydiving dropzones are a great place to find seasonal gig work [[https://www.reddit.com/r/vandwellers/comments/143hfkl/job_suggestion_learn_to_pack_parachutes/|packing parachutes]], and dropzones are often //highly// accepting of van-life. Plenty of skydivers themselves live in vans, and many dropzones have campgrounds attached to them with varying levels of amenities. It's a highly physical job but isn't hard to learn, and can pay very well (often in cash). You don't need to be a skydiver to pack parachutes, although usually spending a lot of time at a dropzone leads to a desire to start skydiving (which leads to spending all your money). |
