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Team Murc · RV-Dreams Family Member

Workamping Interview Questions

Luvglass · RV-Dreams Family Member

We only volunteer, so our questions might be different from someone who expects compensation at a commercial campground. The only things we really care about are how many days a week will we work and what are the total hours expected. We look for relatively short term assignments, our longest has been 2 months. Our other point, and it's a deal breaker, is we don't do bathrooms.

So far we have been very lucky in finding opportunities in the locations we desired, the work has never been too hard and our supervisors have been easy to work with. It's a great way to park yourself without cost for a month or 2 and meet some very nice people. Jo has mainly done office or entry station duties and I have been the campground host.

It's fun, you will enjoy it.

NorCal Dan · RV-Dreams Family Member

My biggest concern when looking for a job is to nail down, prefer in writing, exactly what our duties will be, how many hours are expected, and the length of commitment. We mainly do volunteer jobs, our work hours pay for the site and utilities.

I know Jamie at workamper.com has a great list of questions she publishes in the magazine. If you join that organization, and I recommend it, they have a long list of questions and you can pick the ones that are important to you.

RVPAINTER · RV-Dreams Family Member

Question - how do you get the map with states visited colored in?

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Richard,

Start here. Click on the "country" you want and start marking the states. I think at the end you have to create the image as a jpg file and then copy that somehow into the signature area of your profile Each time you add a state (or province) you have to go back to the website and redo the image by clicking the states and adding the new ones. Then you "create" another image and replace the older one in you signature with the newer one.

http://www.epgsoft.com/VisitedStatesMap/

Terry

Waggin Tails · RV-Dreams Family Member

Howard/Linda have an excellent article on Workamping at http://www.rv-dreams.com/workamping-job-types.html.

When you are volunteering, the relationship is more mutual. While when you are paid to work, the relationship changes.

Jack Mayer · RV-Dreams Family Member

The list of things I ask is too long to publish here. My interviews with a prospective employer - once I do an initial screening - generally last at least an hour of me asking questions, and learning how they run their business.

One thing we determine up front is who are the decision makers, who do we report to, and who do we take direction from. I also determine what they do if a workamper leaves early....do all the hours fall to the remaining workampers to "pick up the load"? Are there other employees? Will they try to fill the position? How many times have workampers left early, and why?

Also, what are the paydays and how often are you paid. I will not work a job where paydays are more than 2 weeks apart. Too much risk of getting stiffed - and it does happen.

To me, it is just like any other job - YOU have to figure out if it is going to work for you, so you have to ask lots of questions. The primary thing that I try to determine is if the operating philosophy of the organization will work for us.

There are LOTS of jobs available. If we don't like what we hear, we simply move to the next available position.