Holiday Hills RV Park hired us as their RV Park Host for this Summer Season. It's not a big RV park by any means and their set up is different from most RV parks, but we are in love here. The park sits beside the Weber River, (so you can imagine those sites getting taken FAST) with 42 sites. Reserve online
https://reserve.campgroundbooking.com/holiday-hills-rv-park make sure to use your Good Sam card for a discount.
Our jobs involve cleaning the bath house, (his and hers), cleaning the gas stations bathrooms, (his and hers) 2 cabins and the general upkeep of the park. We are obsessed with making dang sure all the micro trash is picked up, (with the winds here it's not hard to find any, lol). LOTS of cutting grass and picking up branches (along with naughty campers who do not listen to rules about picking up their dog poop - we don't see that much, seems to be the single overnight campers) and filling up propane tanks.
Well today was like any other day here, with just an added bonus of fixing some bathroom lights. We love finding those extra things that need attention. Keeps us busy and wanted!!
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| The vent needs a good cleaning - we'll get that at the same time. |
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| Out with Old and in with the New |
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| Let there be solid light |
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| Let's get these puppies cleaned! |
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| Ahhhh, this feels great |
Life is great here. The boss is awesome, the supervisor is pretty cool and the co-workers ARE AMAZING. We honestly couldn't be happier with this workamping position.
Wait... You're asking what workamping is? Well it's camping while working a regular job all combined into one location for a period of time. For us it's a summer position from May-Sept. We work for a spot and receive a paycheck too.
Pros:
-Making friends with co-workers and campers and the locals (gosh Coalville is FRIENDLY)
Sightseeing on your days off
-Participate in local events (holidays, concerts, shows, farmers market and in this case RODEOS)
-Some companies have perks.
-End of Season bonus for staying the whole season. This is huge for companies - we know so many people who have quit their jobs and left, leaving the company short handed and in this business like others that's not doable (some RV folk depend on that bonus for GAS purpose - it's also nice to thanked in that extra special way)
-Learning, what I love about Holiday Hills RV Park is that they are all about seeing you grow, anything you want to learn to do, they make it happen. I LOVE that about them.
Cons:
-Pay (it's close to $1000 a month - we are not greedy at all, but it cost us almost $1000 to get here and it will cost the same when we leave, so it doesn't leave much for savings) so definitely take that into thought when job seeking, especially with the cost rise on gas and even food and RV park prices have really gone up in the last 2 years.
-If you are looking for a 9-5 it is not gonna work. Campers will knock on your door all hours of the day (it doesn't bother us at all, but I can see how it would bother others). We'll be in the middle of something and have to stop dead in place and get called off elsewhere, so it's a lot of late nights because of it. Sure we can leave it for the next day, but we want the owners to know that they have workers who take pride in their work.
-Making strong bonds with folks and having to leave (I personally have a hard time with good-bye).
Summer work is easy to find. We were lucky, they found us. We had 12 offers, and we took the first one offered because we were scared. Lucky for us it turned out well.
Winter work is way harder to find. They go fast!! So start looking NOW is the advice we can give you. We are still thinking about winter. Because we are not making as much as we need we may have Mark look for PT work and I'll volunteer solo, but we'll see. Who knows, maybe my social media promoter side gig will pick up a bit. We are not stressed, we have options and we are together and know that everything will be ok even when it isn't. The cost of freedom is thinking.
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