October 31, 2023 • 31 mins
RVing from Persimmon Hill COE Campground in Mississippi... In this episode, Sherri & Russ delve deep into the realm of Top Paying Remote Jobs: From IT to teaching to healthcare, we explore the top five categories of remote jobs that are a perfect fit for the RV Lifestyle.
TOP PAYING REMOTE JOBS EPISODE SUMMARY:In this episode, we delve deep into the realm of Top Paying Remote Jobs: From IT to teaching to healthcare, we explore the top five categories of remote jobs that are a perfect fit for this lifestyle.
RVing from Persimmon Hill COE Campground on the Enid Lake Dam in Mississippi… we invite you along for another adventurous travel day, filled with the always-exciting ups and downs of RV navigation, including locating fuel stops, RV-eating potholes, unexpected detours, and surprising discoveries… finally arriving at the most wonderful, out-of-the-way COE destinations for a peaceful week.
Is the Dream Over???
In response to recent RTO - Return To Office - news articles and general foreboding, we delve into the world of remote work and RV jobs, shedding light on how to balance work and adventure on the road.
Life on the road doesn't mean saying goodbye to your professional life or a good paycheck. On the contrary, it opens up an array of diverse opportunities to make a good living remotely.
Tune in to the podcast to hear more about Sherri and Russ's adventure and learn how you too can strike the perfect work-life balance on the open road. Their story might just inspire you to embark on your own RV adventure, embracing the magic of the journey and the enchantment of the unknown.
This episode is filled with fascinating stories, practical tips, and plenty of laughter. If you're considering an RV lifestyle or just curious about how to make a living while exploring the open roads, this episode is a must-listen!
Top Paying Remote Jobs - Join us on our continuing adventures in this episode!
Come travel with us! Feel the freedom, and perhaps ignite a spark for your own journey on the open road…
- - - - - HIGHLIGHTS - - - - -
- (00:00:30) - Persimmon Hill COE - Enid, Mississippi
- (00:02:50) - RV Navigation & A Pyramid?!
- (00:09:20) - COE Campgrounds
- (00:15:20) - RTO & Remote Work
- (00:19:00) - Top Paying Remote Jobs
- (00:24:30) - RVWorkLifeBalance.com
- (00:27:05) - Wrap Up & Oops...
- (00:29:15) - Join the Adventure! - P.S. SUBSCRIBE! 😘
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, you've reached the Caldwells.
Please leave a message and we will get back with you to suit.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome to the RV Work Life Balance Podcast with your traveling nomadic hosts, Sherri and Russ Caldwell.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, that's us.
We're living the dream, working from home.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
baby no matter where home is.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You can too.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
All right, welcome back again.
Thanks for coming back, everyone Cheers.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Cheers everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Oh, it's so nice.
You know, last week I did a survey because I was really interested in understanding what the market and our customers wanted, right.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And this time you know you can't keep doing surveys, so I decided to.
Okay, I had to find a new way to figure out, like, what's the direction we should go with the podcast, and I went through some of our old stuff which, you know, in the rig we don't get to bring a lot of our old junk with us, but I brought some fun stuff with us, right?
I brought some old computers and stuff like that, right, but I actually dredged up this, do you remember this?
(01:11):
So this I'm going to ask questions of.
This is our old Magic Ape Ball and I decided to ask it questions about.
You know how we should start this episode.
So let's try this out.
Okay, it says okay, okay, reply, hazy, don't try again.
(01:32):
Okay, that didn't work out.
Hold on, hold on.
Okay, that can't predict.
Now it's kind of broken.
There's something wrong with this thing.
Hold on one more time, all right, all right, the answer.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
What's it say?
What's it say?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It says I'm allowed to ask this question.
Uh huh, where are we today?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Thank you, magic Ape Ball.
It's the best, it's awesome.
Okay, today we are located at Persimmon Hill COE campground in Enid Mississippi, on the Enid Dam Road.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
That's just fun to say.
We went like to the the damn tour near Vegas and I got to say damn tour all the time yeah.
We're, we're on the damn road.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Right here at the dam, you know damn campground.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Okay, the damn campground.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I gotta be good here.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But yeah, there's a lot of bugs here though, Actually these are not bad bugs.
These are annoying bugs.
These are a little like gnats everywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So apparently it's seen worse.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We're seeing way worse, so I'm not going to complain about these bugs.
It's a beautiful campground.
The Corps of Engineers does a bang up job.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It is gorgeous and we're just lucky to be here.
Yeah, because we almost ended up in downtown Memphis, tennessee.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I think because we forgot to use the Magic Ape ball we should have asked which way to go.
It knows everything.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Well, the Magic Ape ball didn't tell us about our directional challenges.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
We didn't break down or anything.
No, we did not break down, thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
It was a directional challenge that resulted in us heading toward downtown Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I don't want to place blame, but who's in charge of directions?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
again, oh well, I am the navigator.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, sometimes I turn the wrong way, so it's partly me.
Our navigational aids don't always work with us the way that we hope, and this all became it.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
We have to stop for diesel occasionally, right, usually once every time we travel.
So, yeah, we were on a diesel stop that I always check ahead and figure out where we're going to fuel up using our open roads TSD app that.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah Well, I always got to point out like hey, by the way, check out the show notes.
We have a fuel discount program there and we like to share that with people so you can get a discount as well.
So we love that card.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, and the app is so helpful because I can plan ahead and find these in network gas not gas diesel stations, truck stops, basically that we can go to, and basically these, these truck stops in the open roads program we routinely save up to a dollar a gallon, or more sometimes.
(04:55):
And we've saved thousands of dollars over the last two, three years.
Going 30, you said 35,000 miles we've been yeah.
So, anyway, we were headed toward the Petro number 11 in West Memphis, arkansas, on our way from Missouri down to Enid Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I think you're pointing out the actual Petro and the actual location, because that was one of the worst stops we've been at.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Even though it was cheap.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It was cheap, but the problem was it's a big place, there's a lot of stalls, so it's not like your crowd at some place we go, there's like a handful of stalls, but we pull up there and it was okay getting, okay getting in.
But boy, after you fuel up, you look out and there's just potholes, humongous potholes.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
RV eating potholes.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah.
Charlie and semi truck would fall in these things and so you watch the big rigs trying to navigate around them and we had to go way around to get around out of that it was definitely a challenge and one of the worst truck stops we've ever seen, we saved a fortune, but wow.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
We did save and this Petro station was located in this little piece of land between Interstate 55 and Interstate 40.
And we were on I 55 going south from Missouri to Mississippi and RV life.
(06:33):
We love our RV friendly GPS system and suggestions, but anyway, rv life put us back on I 40, which, as it turns out, is an alternate to I.
I alternate I 55 south.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That's what we thought was a good thing.
Right, we were like hey look, it's an alternative.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
What could go wrong?
Six or one half dozen of the other?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
They're both right there, so we're like you go left, you go right, you're gonna get the same place, Except as we drove like a couple of miles.
All of a sudden we're like crossing this big old bridge into Memphis.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Downtown Memphis, Tennessee.
Welcome to Tennessee.
The sign said 3pm Saturday afternoon traffic.
It was terrifying.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, we were kind of almost at stop and go on that bridge, so that gave us lots of time to take pictures of what.
The Bass Pro pyramid.
It was pretty cool.
Actually, it was a very cool building.
It must have been like an old casino.
That was kind of it's a perfectly cool glass pyramid right on the river, and now it's a Bass Pro, which means and I've heard it's really cool inside.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
We've heard about it before.
It's kind of mythical and magical and ooo-ah.
Lots of pictures because we were going slow across the bridge.
Yeah, we'll put one of those in the show notes.
And also, our daughter's boyfriend works for Bass Pro shops the OG in Springfield, Missouri.
So yeah that was kind of cool.
(08:11):
There's the pyramid they talk about.
Check that out.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But it reminds me of, like you know, we didn't know we were going that way.
We thought it was the same thing as 55.
We ended up in downtown Memphis.
We had that same experience in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I don't think we've talked about this yet.
Flashback yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It was like we had made a wrong left turn and ended up on the Bay Bridge to downtown San Francisco with the huge rig and the car behind us and we had to make some last minute turn around on Treasure.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Island and that was real fun.
We were going down I-5 and that was not RV Life's fault, that was our fault because we were talking and all of a sudden there was a turn and you're like, oh, should I be in that lane or this lane, or there were so many lanes.
So we ended up on the Bay Bridge.
(09:03):
But we did make it back safely and just like that day we fortunately the I-40, alternate I-55, we ended up back on I-55 south of Memphis and on our way to Enid Mississippi and we calmed down.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Everything was great and we got to this cool campground.
This is the core of Engineers Campground, which we love them when we get to do them, because they're beautiful.
This is special, this one's special this one's special because most don't have full hookups.
This one has full hookups, which means you get sewer, water and power.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Most of the time you don't get sewer right Right.
Usually there's a dump station.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And if you're here for just a couple of days, no big deal.
We're here as if you've listened before.
We stay for at least a week, sometimes more, and so at that point, if you have to unhook and dump.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
It's a pain in the butt.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So this one has full hookups.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And if you've not been to a core of Engineers.
First off, they're always on beautiful water sites, so they're rivers or lakes and they've usually been built around a dam to collect water for all sorts of other benefits.
This one's on a dam that's collecting water and it's beautiful, lots of fishing on it and the sites are really big.
(10:27):
We love that.
We go to a place where we pay big bucks at a regular place and you're jammed in here.
You could put three other rigs between us.
It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I love it.
It is gorgeous and it's cheap.
I mean talk about saving money when you're camping Core of Engineers.
This one is $24 per night, which is crazy, and then when we were at Foscue Creek we were at Foscue Creek in Alabama it was $30 per night and those are our rates.
(10:59):
If you are a senior or a member of the military and you have your America, the beautiful interagency pass, boom, you get like 50% off.
We'd be paying 12 bucks a night if we were a little older.
I'm in no rush there.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
We've stayed at other campgrounds.
It's been as high as, like 150, 180 bucks a night.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
To see 24 bucks and to see that we're on the water we have animals walking around us.
Here we have gangs of deer walking around here Like.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I'm serious.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
20 or 30 deer in packs, just walking right behind the RV, not afraid of us at all.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
They love it.
And these sites here I don't know if all of them are, but these are nearly level concrete pads.
That's cool too, so that you've got a beautiful spot, those less ants and stuff like that because of that and you're level.
It's just wonderful.
You know, if you've never had an RV being level, that's a thing.
People you might not know how I'm thinking that is Sleeping when you're not level, not cool.
(12:03):
I'm gonna challenge it can be sometimes.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
But hey, you mentioned bugs and another thing about Corps of Engineer Campgrounds and state parks is, we've actually learned a lot.
Remember, in Oregon we learned about people had their hoods up on their trucks.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Oh yeah, that was a state park there, that's right, and we researched a little.
That was funny and it was because of pack rats and I don't remember the other.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, that was the other creature, that was correct Pack rats and mice.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
And yeah, and that was where, if you didn't leave your hood up, that they would basically live in your car, which we have actually experienced and chew the wires.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Chew the wires and stuff, yeah, and then.
So what did we learn here?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
So when we walked around the other place, we walked around and everybody's hood was up and we were like, wow, that's interesting here.
We didn't see that.
We see you walk around.
Everybody have these big box fans.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Outdoors.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Outdoor fans where they sit outside and we're like, okay, it's not really hot here.
That's unusual, but I'd say 80% of the places, the rigs we walked by had them.
We didn't because we're new here.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
We're from Washington state people.
We're in Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Today you actually, because we're very pleasant you asked somebody hey, why do you that guy had two fans?
What did they have before?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Like, hey, what are these outdoor fans for?
And he's like well, by now we've come to real life.
There are these clouds of little tiny flying gnats.
So, apparently, if you have your fans set up outside by your campfire area it'll blow the clouds of gnats away.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Everybody has them except us, so we sit inside here.
But yeah, we did kind of figure that out and I was like it must be for the gnats because it's been beautiful.
The temperature's been 70 to 85.
It's not been crazy hot like we were in other places we're like it must be for the bugs.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
The guy said, oh yeah, and he said it's like a certain time of the year, so it's not all the time, apparently now, but you can't even walk down the trails or down the road, taking the garbage to the dumpster with talking or with your mouth open, cause I mean it's just crazy.
They don't taste very good, but they're just tiny gnats.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We've had worse bugs dealing with.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
So yeah, we've talked about that.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
The gnats are bad, I hate them, and then we've had stink bugs.
So the gnats, they're kind of low on my problem point.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
They're not a big problem.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
So yeah, so, anyways, that's where we're at and it's a cool place.
Great job finding this place.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
You know, today we were noticing.
When we came back, we were doing our walk, we saw two deer.
Normally we see these packs like 30 deer.
We saw two random deer but we saw a billion geese today.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Like for something, like they just flew in Cause they weren't here.
The geese took over we did not see geese before.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
The geese scared all the deer away, so it's really strange.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Rival gangs.
So wild life.
I want to see that fight.
That would be funny, so okay.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
So what is the topic for today.
It's not just deer versus geese, so the geese will win every time.
I'm going to ask my magic eight ball.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Okay, so what is our topic for today?
We're gonna talk about remote work and RV jobs.
With respect to RV work-life balance.
Okay, we have this week noticed several RTO articles RTO is Return to office.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I know this well.
Yeah, it's actually been.
We've been seeing a little bit before this, but there's been a pack of them now in the news, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yep, yep, some big tech companies are actually forcing people back to the office.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And various.
You know, whether it's hybrid work or everybody's coming back five days a week, come back.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, but at the same time, some of these you're right, some of these articles we read are other companies that are embracing and expanding remote work because the advantages of that.
So there's like there's this push to have the ability to take advantage of the fact that you can save costs by not bringing people back.
But we all know that these big tech companies, right, have invested heavily in a lot of campuses.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Real estate.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Some of them are very specialized right, yeah.
The Googles and Apples amazing campuses and then when the pandemic hit they were stuck with these empty offices.
So there's a big push to bring back.
I get that Some of them kind of put it under this idea of you know the corporate strategy for collaboration and stuff.
But the funny thing is like when the pandemic happened you know they were promoting the fact that remote is an out work, is an outcome, not a location.
(17:08):
So it is interesting to read these articles because it goes through all these different topics.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, so.
So I guess the big question is is the dream over?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't think it has to be Like.
It depends on what your dream is, but I don't think it has to be like our pandemic crapper and the crapper tune is we like to say got us out here where we are now, right.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Cause we realized working from home after you know so it was a year into it we realized that home can be anywhere, as long as we had the internet's right.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, we never thought like we didn't plan to do this.
We talk about it a lot.
We never planned to do this.
But when this was thrust upon us and thrust upon the world, we were like wait, how can we try to like make the best of it?
Well, making the best of it, turned into wait, can like we make a good living by doing this on the road.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
We never thought we could.
No, it was.
You know, it was an idea of oh, that's a retirement thing.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
when you hit the road, yeah, and then we started to meet other people.
We hit the road and we've been doing this for over two or three years now and as part of that, it's like we're experiencing that we can do it.
But then that's one data point we met a lot of other people.
Which is really why we're doing this today in this podcast is like we met a lot of other people doing different kinds of jobs and making this work for them, and that's kind of what showed us that it was possible, right.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, so in our case, we're gonna stay on the road until we don't want to be Right, because you can make it work.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, and we've realized after doing a lot of research and doing a lot of interviews and conversations with people, we basically realized there's tons of opportunities out there.
There's a huge number of jobs available for total remote work, and so, if that's what's interesting to you, we're basically confirming that that actually exists, that there's lots of opportunities, just starting with my wife Sherry, right Like just obvious opportunities for anyone that's self-employed, right Like your freelance writing, copywriting so many opportunities in that freedom.
(19:27):
Yeah, but even if you're doing more of like my job more traditional kind of jobs Monday through Friday, kind of corporate work, there's lots of jobs that are making very good money, right anywhere from 50 to 200 plus K, lots of jobs, and you started to pull some of that stuff up.
So talk us through some of those kind of roles or categories of jobs.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Right, and we've got some of this on the website, yeah, and in the show notes, of course.
That's right.
So the top five categories of remote jobs available out there and again, it's anywhere from 50,000 to over $200,000 a year.
The top category is IT jobs like REST right.
(20:14):
There's over 100,000 jobs available remote hiring, remote workers.
The second category is in teaching.
We have a friend, bob, who is actually an online professor and he has his own textbooks and courses and things that he does from the TARDIS his office in the TARDIS.
(20:41):
We've also heard a lot of primary school teachers have been able to.
In fact, our son attended virtual school that was almost all online with his team of teachers and different things.
There's also tremendous opportunities for ESL teachers which are English as a second language.
(21:04):
People travel all over the world teaching English and that's also something that can be, done very easily on the road in an RV as long as you have the internet connection right.
So that teaching category there's almost 85,000 remote jobs available.
At the time we put this, we came across this information In admin which are virtual assistants, hr and insurance benefits and those kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
In executive assistants there's tons of those admin jobs.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Over 80,000 remote jobs available.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Like just looking at these three here.
You said over 100,000 for IT jobs.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
And.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I totally agree with that.
Like tons of tech companies, the role is typically developing on computers and working online already, and that's what made it possible for my company and so many others, when the pandemic hit, to really not have a big impact on them, unlike, say, if you're working in a restaurant or something.
So IT is really strong and there's lots of roles from entry level on up there, but tons of jobs.
(22:14):
So yeah, and then the teaching one I hadn't actually thought about it till you started talking about it which is there are so many categories of teaching and I think that's incredible when you look at that kind of you said over 85,000 jobs there, which is like that's a lot of jobs you have an opportunity for.
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's amazing, yeah, and then in the see it's a fourth, accounting and finance over 50,000 jobs.
It is interesting, Actually, our financial advisor and the different banks that we work with just on our personal finances and stuff all of those people are remote, working from home.
(22:58):
Not just now but they were before.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I didn't think about that, but you're right, we do Zoom calls with some of those people and we can see they're in their house.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
That's right, right here, at this one, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of course they're always surprised we're in an RV, so you know, they always ask where are we now?
I'm like, hey, I ask that question all the time too.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
And then the fifth category on the current job, remote jobs available list is healthcare and nursing.
There are almost 40,000 jobs in that category, and that includes traveling nurses.
It includes you know there's all kinds of video health resources available the mental health counseling.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Therapists yeah.
Therapists, yeah, and these are just jobs in the US, right, so we're just talking about because that's where we are.
So we started looking at this of jobs in the US because that's where we're really serving.
But if you're listening somewhere else right now there are tons of these kind of remote jobs and again, especially like the ESL you talked about, you know, english is a second language there.
(24:07):
That is an opportunity you can do where the consumer of that information can be somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
So it is really Anywhere in the world it's amazing exactly.
Yeah, that's over quick math.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Carry the one.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
That's over 300,000 jobs just at this moment in time, and these are jobs that are not going back.
They've always been online.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That's right.
So we have done enough traveling to realize that we're not the only ones doing this.
We know that our jobs the writer, copywriter job that my wife does- as well as my IT job.
There are other people doing similar things.
Some are doing other social media things, youtube.
We have YouTube friends.
(24:52):
We have a lot of different kind of friends that do different jobs.
That's what we thought was so cool when we were traveling.
We're like, wow, we're not the only ones doing this.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You don't have to wait until we're retired.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
No, it's so cool.
So yeah, and those are great.
And, like Sherry said, we've put this online.
So take a look at the show notes You'll get a link there.
Or just go to RVWorkLifeBalancecom.
There's a menu choice for remote jobs.
It'll take you to that list and we actually have a lot of plans for this right.
We want to share more of this information Because when we sit and talk to other friends doing this, we both say the same thing.
(25:29):
When we're talking to other couples and stuff, it's like most people don't know this.
They don't know this is possible.
High-paying jobs that you can do while you're traveling to go see your family or to go to the place you want to do and we've always talked about I think we do as much or better quality and more work while we've been down the road than when we did when I was sitting in the cube, for example.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Oh, you're certainly working longer hours.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
That part's not great.
I mean it's the commute.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It's the time differences.
They're online all the time adjusting your work schedule with team members and clients all over the world, which you couldn't really do that if you were working in the office from like 8 to 5 or 9 to 6 or whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I also think I'm a little happier.
As much as I thought my job was cool when I was going to the office, it's like 10 times cooler when I hang up the Zoom at the end of the day and step outside where we are now, here we are.
We're in Mississippi, right?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
So I have to think about it for a second.
It's like damn Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And we're going to be in Mississippi next week too.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Couple of weeks.
Yeah, we get to see our kid, yeah, so that's kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
So there's so many cool advantages of being able to travel because it changes my demeanor of how I approach every week.
Monday morning is not the same when you know I have to look at the window going where am I again?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
So it's a lot of fun.
Yeah, yeah, all right, sorry, I was going to wrap it up.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Oh, okay, is that what?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
you were trying to get me to do.
Maybe we should take this out, yeah, okay.
So I was ready to do wrap it up.
You good with that.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Uh-huh, that's where I was going All right, all right.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So this has been awesome If I had to try to wrap up, you know, this week and try to tie together the top three things for work-life balance.
Hold me accountable here if I get this wrong.
And if I get it wrong, I'll check with the Magic 8 ball to see if I got it wrong.
Number one I think this falls into number one.
The transition to return to office and hybrid work is really driving this right.
(27:44):
There's a lot of articles about it.
You know, some big companies definitely want to do it because they've made this investment in real estate and stuff and they see a advantage.
And I'm not saying they're wrong, I'm just saying that's really what's driving a lot of this.
But not everybody's on board with it, right, right.
And number two what we've discovered.
You know we've been out here doing this.
This isn't like guessing, right, we've been meeting and traveling.
(28:07):
We meet so many people and when we pulled in here, what happened?
Like we hadn't even finished hooking up in Brad, which we only know his first name, but that's what happens in a campground.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
We had just finished hooking up and the guy next door walked over and introduced himself as Brad and was telling us how New best?
Friend, new best friend.
He loved our rig wanted to you know had a pontoon boat.
Tell us all about all the other places around.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
It was fantastic, it's so cool.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, and that was just Brad telling us about the place.
Sometimes people talk about their online jobs and we have met so many people to realize that there are a lot of people that are making this work remote.
So that's cool, because we thought it was just us.
So we know that's not true.
Yeah, the third thing I guess is not that there's just jobs, that there's just a lot of good paying jobs out there.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And that's great, so that if you are trying to take what you're doing now at home and have that kind of good pay or better and do it on the road.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
That's possible.
Figure out that opportunity, yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Especially now.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I would put them in those three categories and I think the magic eight ball would agree.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
So our goal with RV work life balance podcast is to share what we're learning to help anyone interested in this type of crazy adventure.
The podcast is a resource for finding work life balance on the road.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
And, yeah, we're always exploring right.
We're looking to share ideas and possibilities with you and we plan to actually expand this to future episodes to talk about what you can do and how you can make this work with remote jobs on the road.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
How to find a great remote job on the road right.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a tough job sometimes, but we're here for you.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
So join us next week.
Y'all, that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Okay now the other thing I want to make sure we do is we want to thank the listeners that are listening to this podcast right now.
Really do, and if you haven't heard me say it before, I'm going to say check out the show notes for the products and the links and all the references we had there and if you are new, please subscribe.
We want a chance to keep up with you going in the future.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
And the magic eight ball tells me.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Let's check.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It says go for it to our existing subscribers.
We love you.
Thank you so much for being a part of our journey and this, this amazing adventure.
Please be in touch by email or on the Facebook.
The most important thing is to make your escape and get out here.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Let's find out if we're ready.
Hold on, are you ready?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I am so ready, let's go.
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Please leave a message and we will get back with you to suit.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome to the RV Work Life Balance Podcast with your traveling nomadic hosts, Sherri and Russ Caldwell.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, that's us.
We're living the dream, working from home.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
baby no matter where home is.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You can too.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
All right, welcome back again.
Thanks for coming back, everyone Cheers.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Cheers everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Oh, it's so nice.
You know, last week I did a survey because I was really interested in understanding what the market and our customers wanted, right.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
And this time you know you can't keep doing surveys, so I decided to.
Okay, I had to find a new way to figure out, like, what's the direction we should go with the podcast, and I went through some of our old stuff which, you know, in the rig we don't get to bring a lot of our old junk with us, but I brought some fun stuff with us, right?
I brought some old computers and stuff like that, right, but I actually dredged up this, do you remember this?
(01:11):
So this I'm going to ask questions of.
This is our old Magic Ape Ball and I decided to ask it questions about.
You know how we should start this episode.
So let's try this out.
Okay, it says okay, okay, reply, hazy, don't try again.
(01:32):
Okay, that didn't work out.
Hold on, hold on.
Okay, that can't predict.
Now it's kind of broken.
There's something wrong with this thing.
Hold on one more time, all right, all right, the answer.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
What's it say?
What's it say?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It says I'm allowed to ask this question.
Uh huh, where are we today?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Thank you, magic Ape Ball.
It's the best, it's awesome.
Okay, today we are located at Persimmon Hill COE campground in Enid Mississippi, on the Enid Dam Road.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
That's just fun to say.
We went like to the the damn tour near Vegas and I got to say damn tour all the time yeah.
We're, we're on the damn road.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Right here at the dam, you know damn campground.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Okay, the damn campground.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I gotta be good here.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But yeah, there's a lot of bugs here though, Actually these are not bad bugs.
These are annoying bugs.
These are a little like gnats everywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So apparently it's seen worse.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We're seeing way worse, so I'm not going to complain about these bugs.
It's a beautiful campground.
The Corps of Engineers does a bang up job.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It is gorgeous and we're just lucky to be here.
Yeah, because we almost ended up in downtown Memphis, tennessee.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I think because we forgot to use the Magic Ape ball we should have asked which way to go.
It knows everything.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Well, the Magic Ape ball didn't tell us about our directional challenges.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
We didn't break down or anything.
No, we did not break down, thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
It was a directional challenge that resulted in us heading toward downtown Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I don't want to place blame, but who's in charge of directions?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
again, oh well, I am the navigator.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, sometimes I turn the wrong way, so it's partly me.
Our navigational aids don't always work with us the way that we hope, and this all became it.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
We have to stop for diesel occasionally, right, usually once every time we travel.
So, yeah, we were on a diesel stop that I always check ahead and figure out where we're going to fuel up using our open roads TSD app that.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah Well, I always got to point out like hey, by the way, check out the show notes.
We have a fuel discount program there and we like to share that with people so you can get a discount as well.
So we love that card.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, and the app is so helpful because I can plan ahead and find these in network gas not gas diesel stations, truck stops, basically that we can go to, and basically these, these truck stops in the open roads program we routinely save up to a dollar a gallon, or more sometimes.
(04:55):
And we've saved thousands of dollars over the last two, three years.
Going 30, you said 35,000 miles we've been yeah.
So, anyway, we were headed toward the Petro number 11 in West Memphis, arkansas, on our way from Missouri down to Enid Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I think you're pointing out the actual Petro and the actual location, because that was one of the worst stops we've been at.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Even though it was cheap.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It was cheap, but the problem was it's a big place, there's a lot of stalls, so it's not like your crowd at some place we go, there's like a handful of stalls, but we pull up there and it was okay getting, okay getting in.
But boy, after you fuel up, you look out and there's just potholes, humongous potholes.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
RV eating potholes.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah.
Charlie and semi truck would fall in these things and so you watch the big rigs trying to navigate around them and we had to go way around to get around out of that it was definitely a challenge and one of the worst truck stops we've ever seen, we saved a fortune, but wow.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
We did save and this Petro station was located in this little piece of land between Interstate 55 and Interstate 40.
And we were on I 55 going south from Missouri to Mississippi and RV life.
(06:33):
We love our RV friendly GPS system and suggestions, but anyway, rv life put us back on I 40, which, as it turns out, is an alternate to I.
I alternate I 55 south.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That's what we thought was a good thing.
Right, we were like hey look, it's an alternative.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
What could go wrong?
Six or one half dozen of the other?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
They're both right there, so we're like you go left, you go right, you're gonna get the same place, Except as we drove like a couple of miles.
All of a sudden we're like crossing this big old bridge into Memphis.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Downtown Memphis, Tennessee.
Welcome to Tennessee.
The sign said 3pm Saturday afternoon traffic.
It was terrifying.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, we were kind of almost at stop and go on that bridge, so that gave us lots of time to take pictures of what.
The Bass Pro pyramid.
It was pretty cool.
Actually, it was a very cool building.
It must have been like an old casino.
That was kind of it's a perfectly cool glass pyramid right on the river, and now it's a Bass Pro, which means and I've heard it's really cool inside.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
We've heard about it before.
It's kind of mythical and magical and ooo-ah.
Lots of pictures because we were going slow across the bridge.
Yeah, we'll put one of those in the show notes.
And also, our daughter's boyfriend works for Bass Pro shops the OG in Springfield, Missouri.
So yeah that was kind of cool.
(08:11):
There's the pyramid they talk about.
Check that out.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But it reminds me of, like you know, we didn't know we were going that way.
We thought it was the same thing as 55.
We ended up in downtown Memphis.
We had that same experience in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I don't think we've talked about this yet.
Flashback yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It was like we had made a wrong left turn and ended up on the Bay Bridge to downtown San Francisco with the huge rig and the car behind us and we had to make some last minute turn around on Treasure.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Island and that was real fun.
We were going down I-5 and that was not RV Life's fault, that was our fault because we were talking and all of a sudden there was a turn and you're like, oh, should I be in that lane or this lane, or there were so many lanes.
So we ended up on the Bay Bridge.
(09:03):
But we did make it back safely and just like that day we fortunately the I-40, alternate I-55, we ended up back on I-55 south of Memphis and on our way to Enid Mississippi and we calmed down.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Everything was great and we got to this cool campground.
This is the core of Engineers Campground, which we love them when we get to do them, because they're beautiful.
This is special, this one's special this one's special because most don't have full hookups.
This one has full hookups, which means you get sewer, water and power.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Most of the time you don't get sewer right Right.
Usually there's a dump station.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And if you're here for just a couple of days, no big deal.
We're here as if you've listened before.
We stay for at least a week, sometimes more, and so at that point, if you have to unhook and dump.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
It's a pain in the butt.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So this one has full hookups.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
And if you've not been to a core of Engineers.
First off, they're always on beautiful water sites, so they're rivers or lakes and they've usually been built around a dam to collect water for all sorts of other benefits.
This one's on a dam that's collecting water and it's beautiful, lots of fishing on it and the sites are really big.
(10:27):
We love that.
We go to a place where we pay big bucks at a regular place and you're jammed in here.
You could put three other rigs between us.
It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I love it.
It is gorgeous and it's cheap.
I mean talk about saving money when you're camping Core of Engineers.
This one is $24 per night, which is crazy, and then when we were at Foscue Creek we were at Foscue Creek in Alabama it was $30 per night and those are our rates.
(10:59):
If you are a senior or a member of the military and you have your America, the beautiful interagency pass, boom, you get like 50% off.
We'd be paying 12 bucks a night if we were a little older.
I'm in no rush there.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
We've stayed at other campgrounds.
It's been as high as, like 150, 180 bucks a night.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
To see 24 bucks and to see that we're on the water we have animals walking around us.
Here we have gangs of deer walking around here Like.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I'm serious.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
20 or 30 deer in packs, just walking right behind the RV, not afraid of us at all.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
They love it.
And these sites here I don't know if all of them are, but these are nearly level concrete pads.
That's cool too, so that you've got a beautiful spot, those less ants and stuff like that because of that and you're level.
It's just wonderful.
You know, if you've never had an RV being level, that's a thing.
People you might not know how I'm thinking that is Sleeping when you're not level, not cool.
(12:03):
I'm gonna challenge it can be sometimes.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
But hey, you mentioned bugs and another thing about Corps of Engineer Campgrounds and state parks is, we've actually learned a lot.
Remember, in Oregon we learned about people had their hoods up on their trucks.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Oh yeah, that was a state park there, that's right, and we researched a little.
That was funny and it was because of pack rats and I don't remember the other.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, that was the other creature, that was correct Pack rats and mice.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
And yeah, and that was where, if you didn't leave your hood up, that they would basically live in your car, which we have actually experienced and chew the wires.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Chew the wires and stuff, yeah, and then.
So what did we learn here?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
So when we walked around the other place, we walked around and everybody's hood was up and we were like, wow, that's interesting here.
We didn't see that.
We see you walk around.
Everybody have these big box fans.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Outdoors.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Outdoor fans where they sit outside and we're like, okay, it's not really hot here.
That's unusual, but I'd say 80% of the places, the rigs we walked by had them.
We didn't because we're new here.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
We're from Washington state people.
We're in Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Today you actually, because we're very pleasant you asked somebody hey, why do you that guy had two fans?
What did they have before?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Like, hey, what are these outdoor fans for?
And he's like well, by now we've come to real life.
There are these clouds of little tiny flying gnats.
So, apparently, if you have your fans set up outside by your campfire area it'll blow the clouds of gnats away.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Everybody has them except us, so we sit inside here.
But yeah, we did kind of figure that out and I was like it must be for the gnats because it's been beautiful.
The temperature's been 70 to 85.
It's not been crazy hot like we were in other places we're like it must be for the bugs.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
The guy said, oh yeah, and he said it's like a certain time of the year, so it's not all the time, apparently now, but you can't even walk down the trails or down the road, taking the garbage to the dumpster with talking or with your mouth open, cause I mean it's just crazy.
They don't taste very good, but they're just tiny gnats.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We've had worse bugs dealing with.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
So yeah, we've talked about that.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
The gnats are bad, I hate them, and then we've had stink bugs.
So the gnats, they're kind of low on my problem point.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
They're not a big problem.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
So yeah, so, anyways, that's where we're at and it's a cool place.
Great job finding this place.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
You know, today we were noticing.
When we came back, we were doing our walk, we saw two deer.
Normally we see these packs like 30 deer.
We saw two random deer but we saw a billion geese today.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Like for something, like they just flew in Cause they weren't here.
The geese took over we did not see geese before.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
The geese scared all the deer away, so it's really strange.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Rival gangs.
So wild life.
I want to see that fight.
That would be funny, so okay.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
So what is the topic for today.
It's not just deer versus geese, so the geese will win every time.
I'm going to ask my magic eight ball.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Okay, so what is our topic for today?
We're gonna talk about remote work and RV jobs.
With respect to RV work-life balance.
Okay, we have this week noticed several RTO articles RTO is Return to office.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I know this well.
Yeah, it's actually been.
We've been seeing a little bit before this, but there's been a pack of them now in the news, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yep, yep, some big tech companies are actually forcing people back to the office.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And various.
You know, whether it's hybrid work or everybody's coming back five days a week, come back.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, but at the same time, some of these you're right, some of these articles we read are other companies that are embracing and expanding remote work because the advantages of that.
So there's like there's this push to have the ability to take advantage of the fact that you can save costs by not bringing people back.
But we all know that these big tech companies, right, have invested heavily in a lot of campuses.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Real estate.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Some of them are very specialized right, yeah.
The Googles and Apples amazing campuses and then when the pandemic hit they were stuck with these empty offices.
So there's a big push to bring back.
I get that Some of them kind of put it under this idea of you know the corporate strategy for collaboration and stuff.
But the funny thing is like when the pandemic happened you know they were promoting the fact that remote is an out work, is an outcome, not a location.
(17:08):
So it is interesting to read these articles because it goes through all these different topics.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, so.
So I guess the big question is is the dream over?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't think it has to be Like.
It depends on what your dream is, but I don't think it has to be like our pandemic crapper and the crapper tune is we like to say got us out here where we are now, right.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Cause we realized working from home after you know so it was a year into it we realized that home can be anywhere, as long as we had the internet's right.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, we never thought like we didn't plan to do this.
We talk about it a lot.
We never planned to do this.
But when this was thrust upon us and thrust upon the world, we were like wait, how can we try to like make the best of it?
Well, making the best of it, turned into wait, can like we make a good living by doing this on the road.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
We never thought we could.
No, it was.
You know, it was an idea of oh, that's a retirement thing.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
when you hit the road, yeah, and then we started to meet other people.
We hit the road and we've been doing this for over two or three years now and as part of that, it's like we're experiencing that we can do it.
But then that's one data point we met a lot of other people.
Which is really why we're doing this today in this podcast is like we met a lot of other people doing different kinds of jobs and making this work for them, and that's kind of what showed us that it was possible, right.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, so in our case, we're gonna stay on the road until we don't want to be Right, because you can make it work.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, and we've realized after doing a lot of research and doing a lot of interviews and conversations with people, we basically realized there's tons of opportunities out there.
There's a huge number of jobs available for total remote work, and so, if that's what's interesting to you, we're basically confirming that that actually exists, that there's lots of opportunities, just starting with my wife Sherry, right Like just obvious opportunities for anyone that's self-employed, right Like your freelance writing, copywriting so many opportunities in that freedom.
(19:27):
Yeah, but even if you're doing more of like my job more traditional kind of jobs Monday through Friday, kind of corporate work, there's lots of jobs that are making very good money, right anywhere from 50 to 200 plus K, lots of jobs, and you started to pull some of that stuff up.
So talk us through some of those kind of roles or categories of jobs.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Right, and we've got some of this on the website, yeah, and in the show notes, of course.
That's right.
So the top five categories of remote jobs available out there and again, it's anywhere from 50,000 to over $200,000 a year.
The top category is IT jobs like REST right.
(20:14):
There's over 100,000 jobs available remote hiring, remote workers.
The second category is in teaching.
We have a friend, bob, who is actually an online professor and he has his own textbooks and courses and things that he does from the TARDIS his office in the TARDIS.
(20:41):
We've also heard a lot of primary school teachers have been able to.
In fact, our son attended virtual school that was almost all online with his team of teachers and different things.
There's also tremendous opportunities for ESL teachers which are English as a second language.
(21:04):
People travel all over the world teaching English and that's also something that can be, done very easily on the road in an RV as long as you have the internet connection right.
So that teaching category there's almost 85,000 remote jobs available.
At the time we put this, we came across this information In admin which are virtual assistants, hr and insurance benefits and those kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
In executive assistants there's tons of those admin jobs.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Over 80,000 remote jobs available.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Like just looking at these three here.
You said over 100,000 for IT jobs.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
And.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I totally agree with that.
Like tons of tech companies, the role is typically developing on computers and working online already, and that's what made it possible for my company and so many others, when the pandemic hit, to really not have a big impact on them, unlike, say, if you're working in a restaurant or something.
So IT is really strong and there's lots of roles from entry level on up there, but tons of jobs.
(22:14):
So yeah, and then the teaching one I hadn't actually thought about it till you started talking about it which is there are so many categories of teaching and I think that's incredible when you look at that kind of you said over 85,000 jobs there, which is like that's a lot of jobs you have an opportunity for.
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's amazing, yeah, and then in the see it's a fourth, accounting and finance over 50,000 jobs.
It is interesting, Actually, our financial advisor and the different banks that we work with just on our personal finances and stuff all of those people are remote, working from home.
(22:58):
Not just now but they were before.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I didn't think about that, but you're right, we do Zoom calls with some of those people and we can see they're in their house.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
That's right, right here, at this one, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of course they're always surprised we're in an RV, so you know, they always ask where are we now?
I'm like, hey, I ask that question all the time too.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
And then the fifth category on the current job, remote jobs available list is healthcare and nursing.
There are almost 40,000 jobs in that category, and that includes traveling nurses.
It includes you know there's all kinds of video health resources available the mental health counseling.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Therapists yeah.
Therapists, yeah, and these are just jobs in the US, right, so we're just talking about because that's where we are.
So we started looking at this of jobs in the US because that's where we're really serving.
But if you're listening somewhere else right now there are tons of these kind of remote jobs and again, especially like the ESL you talked about, you know, english is a second language there.
(24:07):
That is an opportunity you can do where the consumer of that information can be somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
So it is really Anywhere in the world it's amazing exactly.
Yeah, that's over quick math.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Carry the one.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
That's over 300,000 jobs just at this moment in time, and these are jobs that are not going back.
They've always been online.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That's right.
So we have done enough traveling to realize that we're not the only ones doing this.
We know that our jobs the writer, copywriter job that my wife does- as well as my IT job.
There are other people doing similar things.
Some are doing other social media things, youtube.
We have YouTube friends.
(24:52):
We have a lot of different kind of friends that do different jobs.
That's what we thought was so cool when we were traveling.
We're like, wow, we're not the only ones doing this.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You don't have to wait until we're retired.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
No, it's so cool.
So yeah, and those are great.
And, like Sherry said, we've put this online.
So take a look at the show notes You'll get a link there.
Or just go to RVWorkLifeBalancecom.
There's a menu choice for remote jobs.
It'll take you to that list and we actually have a lot of plans for this right.
We want to share more of this information Because when we sit and talk to other friends doing this, we both say the same thing.
(25:29):
When we're talking to other couples and stuff, it's like most people don't know this.
They don't know this is possible.
High-paying jobs that you can do while you're traveling to go see your family or to go to the place you want to do and we've always talked about I think we do as much or better quality and more work while we've been down the road than when we did when I was sitting in the cube, for example.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Oh, you're certainly working longer hours.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
That part's not great.
I mean it's the commute.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It's the time differences.
They're online all the time adjusting your work schedule with team members and clients all over the world, which you couldn't really do that if you were working in the office from like 8 to 5 or 9 to 6 or whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I also think I'm a little happier.
As much as I thought my job was cool when I was going to the office, it's like 10 times cooler when I hang up the Zoom at the end of the day and step outside where we are now, here we are.
We're in Mississippi, right?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
So I have to think about it for a second.
It's like damn Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And we're going to be in Mississippi next week too.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Couple of weeks.
Yeah, we get to see our kid, yeah, so that's kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
So there's so many cool advantages of being able to travel because it changes my demeanor of how I approach every week.
Monday morning is not the same when you know I have to look at the window going where am I again?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
So it's a lot of fun.
Yeah, yeah, all right, sorry, I was going to wrap it up.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Oh, okay, is that what?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
you were trying to get me to do.
Maybe we should take this out, yeah, okay.
So I was ready to do wrap it up.
You good with that.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Uh-huh, that's where I was going All right, all right.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So this has been awesome If I had to try to wrap up, you know, this week and try to tie together the top three things for work-life balance.
Hold me accountable here if I get this wrong.
And if I get it wrong, I'll check with the Magic 8 ball to see if I got it wrong.
Number one I think this falls into number one.
The transition to return to office and hybrid work is really driving this right.
(27:44):
There's a lot of articles about it.
You know, some big companies definitely want to do it because they've made this investment in real estate and stuff and they see a advantage.
And I'm not saying they're wrong, I'm just saying that's really what's driving a lot of this.
But not everybody's on board with it, right, right.
And number two what we've discovered.
You know we've been out here doing this.
This isn't like guessing, right, we've been meeting and traveling.
(28:07):
We meet so many people and when we pulled in here, what happened?
Like we hadn't even finished hooking up in Brad, which we only know his first name, but that's what happens in a campground.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
We had just finished hooking up and the guy next door walked over and introduced himself as Brad and was telling us how New best?
Friend, new best friend.
He loved our rig wanted to you know had a pontoon boat.
Tell us all about all the other places around.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
It was fantastic, it's so cool.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, and that was just Brad telling us about the place.
Sometimes people talk about their online jobs and we have met so many people to realize that there are a lot of people that are making this work remote.
So that's cool, because we thought it was just us.
So we know that's not true.
Yeah, the third thing I guess is not that there's just jobs, that there's just a lot of good paying jobs out there.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And that's great, so that if you are trying to take what you're doing now at home and have that kind of good pay or better and do it on the road.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
That's possible.
Figure out that opportunity, yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Especially now.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I would put them in those three categories and I think the magic eight ball would agree.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
So our goal with RV work life balance podcast is to share what we're learning to help anyone interested in this type of crazy adventure.
The podcast is a resource for finding work life balance on the road.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
And, yeah, we're always exploring right.
We're looking to share ideas and possibilities with you and we plan to actually expand this to future episodes to talk about what you can do and how you can make this work with remote jobs on the road.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
How to find a great remote job on the road right.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a tough job sometimes, but we're here for you.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
So join us next week.
Y'all, that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Okay now the other thing I want to make sure we do is we want to thank the listeners that are listening to this podcast right now.
Really do, and if you haven't heard me say it before, I'm going to say check out the show notes for the products and the links and all the references we had there and if you are new, please subscribe.
We want a chance to keep up with you going in the future.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
And the magic eight ball tells me.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Let's check.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It says go for it to our existing subscribers.
We love you.
Thank you so much for being a part of our journey and this, this amazing adventure.
Please be in touch by email or on the Facebook.
The most important thing is to make your escape and get out here.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Let's find out if we're ready.
Hold on, are you ready?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I am so ready, let's go.
Bye, bye, bye.
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