How in the world do you live in a camper and travel?
The above question we get all the time. We will be revealing remote work and how it helped us move across America.
When we first moved into our fifth wheel and decided we wanted to move about the US we made the decision not to really share how we made money. For the longest time, Brian’s mom would ask “How do you two keep making money?” We had friends ask us as well, but we didn’t really want to share the secret because we really didn’t know how long it would last.
Keep in mind Brian quit his HD job and started remote work full-time, which he really never has been self-employed. It was a big leap for him to take into the unknown. I’ve spoken with friends and they thought I moved my in-home parties to online, when I told them what we were doing they were a little shocked.
Covid and Remote Work
When covid hit and the world shut down, I had to figure something out. In-home parties just weren’t cutting it plus we were in the mode of selling our belongings and looking for our camper at the time. We were focused on the new lifestyle we were getting ready to embark on. We went from a 1200 square foot house to staying with a friend’s room, to living in a maybe 350 square foot camper.
A friend of mine had found one of the remote work apps and told me “I am making really good money while people are too scared to leave their homes.” I figured I would give it a try. Found the app signed up for the same one got approved and started shopping and delivering to people.
Remote Work while Making Money
I was making pretty good money and decided to tell Brian it was time to hit the road. He came up with a date after we saw how much money we could make. We had anywhere between three to four apps running at a time. I loved shopping for others and delivering their groceries when we would get a unicorn it was a great day. Unicorns paid upwards of fifty or more dollars due to people being grateful for you the shoppers so they didn’t have to leave home.
When gas prices were good we would run hot food for a dollar a mile or more. I remember we were in Kentucky, it was Halloween 2020. An order came over to deliver pizza to someone and it ended up paying seventy dollars. It was great when those came across (unicorns). Now that gas prices have gone up a lot, we do at least a dollar fifty a mile or more. We were making anywhere between six to eight hundred a week per person at times.
Remote Work and Its Life Span
When we were in Texas last year we started to see a shift in tips and how slow it had gotten. We went from making a hundred and fifty a day down to maybe ninety on good days. For two years it carried us from the east coast to the midwest. When we would choose our next destination we would look at the bigger towns and do homework on the area and it would be a crap shoot until we rolled into the RV park and never really knew what we were driving into.
When we were in Colorado I ran into a lady who shared a website and told me about workamping. She explained most of them paid per hour and you got your spot for free for working with them. We had heard about it in Alabama and never really looked into it. We had no idea where to start. It’s nice that we now have both options for making money.
Beware that these remote work services for no reason will cancel you out without reason. One said it could not recognize me from the photo I took of myself and removed me from the platform. I am in groups on social media and some people have had the same experience. Most of the people using these platforms are lazy and tip poorly. You just never know what you’ll run across while working the apps.
There are people who will turn around after you hand them their food and report you for not delivering it. There are people who want to get as much free stuff as possible so they don’t mind ruining your life to get all the free groceries are hot food possible. It is a sick world that we live in and these companies would much rather keep those people than you. The workers are a rotating door. With that in mind just know that it is a risk you are taking.
Remote work really helped us see a lot of the US while getting familiar with the areas we have stayed in. We are super grateful to have utilized the system as we did, it is just a crying shame our economy is hurting right now.
Sharing the Information with Others
We met some really nice people along the way. We always run across those who work from home or are retired but no one who has done remote work as we have. It is interesting the different people and the work they do. There is how we went through two years of making money and moving across the US, there are so many ways to make money and travel you just have to be willing to find your niche to do it.
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