RT24 Podcast: How to Pursue Your Passion and Earn a Living While Full-Timing in an RV

It's always hard to come up with a catchy title for these Roadtreking RV Podcast episodes. But if I had to summarize what we talk about most this week I'd say it's all about creating the lives we have been dreaming about. Whether you are a retiree, about to retire, or just long to get out there in an RV as a full-timer or half-timer and are trying to figure out how you can still earn some money, this episode is for you. It's all about pursuing your passions in your RV. Know this: you can do it! And get paid. In answering one of our listener questions this week, I offer a great resource to finding work on the road. And then there's my interview with Mark Rickert, a thrill-seeking techy and founder of Off the Grid Apps. That's him pictured up above with his RV. Rickert is in his early 30's and travels around the country pursuing his passion of skydiving, all while making a living and fulltiming in his RV. He was a six-figure a year software developer who decided he wanted his office to be a 1998 Roadtrek 190 Popular. Since August he has been to 11 states, making many of the more than 200 skydiving jumps he does annually. Most nights, he boondocks, paying nothing or very little for a camping spot. On this week's show, Mark offers valuable tips on how to truly follow your dreams, see the country, enjoy life to the fullest, and have all the comforts of home with you all the time. Mark shares his nomadic lifestyle with us and offers hints and tips on how you can do it, too. For example, he talks about the need to become a minimalist while full-timing. “You just don’t need nearly as many things as you think you do,” he says. Rickert says money is not his main goal and that enjoying life, traveling, skydiving and making new friends are higher priorities. He says he tries to bill about 20 hours a week to clients, and he has developed a number of his own iPhone apps that he sells through his company appropriately called Off the Grid Apps. [spp-player] First Things First: An Update About Kathy Huggins of Living The RV Dream We start the show this week by providing you with an update on Kathy Huggins of Living the RV Dream. Last week we told you she had a serious medical emergency. I've heard from John Huggins, her husband, since then and he let us know that Kathy continues to get better and that he appreciates everyone's continued thoughts and prayers. She's still in the hospital and a long road to recovery lies ahead but she is now out of ICU, and that is good news. Check-in of the Week: Looking Forward to Full-Timing A listener name Kevin checks in to let us know he wants to make a living out of an RV and wonders how he can do it. I let him know there are many ways there are to do it. I specifically refer him to https://rvlifestyle.com/8 and the interview with Steve Anderson, who runs Workamper.com, which is dedicated to matching employers with RV workampers. As Jim explains, Workampers are adventurous individuals, couples, and families who have chosen a wonderful lifestyle that combines ANY kind of part-time or full-time work with RV camping. Bottom line: [spp-tweet "Workkamping can help pay the bills while you RV."] Question: Can You Tell Me More About E-Treknology and RV Power? A listener named Karl left us a message asking about our “E-Treknology” and power use. [spp-tweet "E-Treknology uses battery and solar innovations to allow RVers to stay boondock longer."] We share how we use power, how long batteries will last, how solar charges the batteries, and how long it takes to charge them with the engne generator on our ClassB van.  I also refer him to https://rvlifestyle.com/11, which was our podcast from the most recent National RV Trade Show in Louisville, Ky. From Our Email: Nice Weather is NOT a Myth and Other RV Tales Craig from North Carolina writes to us with reports of actual nice weather these days somewhere in North America. He also shares with us an "interesting" experience some relatives had of,