Today NBC topic "Workcamping"

[eDJ_]

I notice the news media is picking up on RV full timers now occasionally.

CBS Sunday Morning had a piece on this recently.

Now Today has this

http://www.today.com/series/startto...ide-downsizing-embracing-rv-lifestyle-t107322

I'm wondering if this attention will be a good thing in the long term?  Your thoughts?

 

[DuneElliot]

The one thing I see a lot in articles like that, or in minimalism/downsizing videos is keeping or getting Prime or Netflix and ditching the DVDs. Now for a lot of us we want to be off-grid and don't have the ability to use our data plan to stream movies or TV shows. Thus we need to pre-download our owned movies or keep our DVDs. I love keeping my DVDs in all their original cases, but in preparation of moving into my 5W this summer I made the sacrifice of putting all my DVDs into a multi CD/DVD binder and ditching the individual cases. This was one of the harder things for me just because I like to take really good care of my DVDs and the original cases do a better job, but the binders take up less space.

 

[Gary68]

the good thing is that it's called workcamping so the millennials wont even look at it :angel:

 

[SoulRaven]

She touched on the basics, but there is just so much more that is involved for some people who just can't let go of things. Yeah, the steps look fairly easy, but it is a HUGE job doing that and just facing the stuff in the house to sort it can be overwhelming. I did not think we would ever get the job done. By the last of it, I hated most of our stuff as it had become the enemy that was standing in the way and just wanted the whole sorting thing over which really helped.

 

[eDJ_]

Still laughing and thinking of Gary's observation.  I've met a few that I wonder if they could operate a broom or drive a nail with a hammer myself.  (but givem a computer and they're death on those Space Invaders)

But those Millennials     The first group to grow up with computers and hit the internet running.

I work with computers myself,  and I could hardly visit my friends in past years when their kids would pull me away from them to look at their latest computer projects.   So proud to show me what they could do.   I'm surprised at their unique "work ethic" as it doesn't have much to do with labor, sweat, or getting dirty in the classical sense.  But those who would work the internet from their Rig while being mobile and incorporating business with play may in time come to be the envy of the rest of us.

They would be at the youngest about 18 now and close to 40 at the oldest.  And may view their Rig as a mobile office and RV combined.  As they learn about this way of life and embrace it we may just see an "RV Nomad Boom" with those between 25 and 35.  But understand I'm just guessing.   Since there are so many WIFI hot spots as there are now, I can see it edging closer each day for them.  Perhaps a growth in campsites with shore power, WIFI, Showers & Restrooms, and laundry facilities will follow.

 

[steamjam1]

I don't look down as much on the Millennial Generation like others do. They just grew up in a very different world then us X-ers, and in a way way different world then the Boomers did. Thats all. Yeah sure. There are times I think to myself if some of them have ever seen a hammer, let alone know what one is. but at the same time I know 20-something Millennials who can absolutely SCHOOL MOST of us old folk about the old arts, like steam engines.

I'll say this about them tho. They are much less apathetic then my generation was at their age in the early '90s. They are more optimistic, less idealistic, and more pragmatic. And that's a good thing...

The fact this, as I type this, the Millennials are the majority generation in the USA. Its their country. They didn't get dealt a very good hand coming into adulthood with crazy college debt, poor career prospects, and an economy that is very much against them. The lessons they are learning will not be lost.

With the world as it is today, I firmly believe that they will become the next Great Generation. I just wish they would hurry the F up.. haha!

 

[Thirsty Boots Nomad]

...   I'm surprised at their unique "work ethic" as it doesn't have much to do with labor, sweat, or getting dirty in the classical sense.  But those who would work the internet from their Rig while being mobile and incorporating business with play may in time come to be the envy of the rest of us.

They would be at the youngest about 18 now and close to 40 at the oldest.  And may view their Rig as a mobile office and RV combined.  As they learn about this way of life and embrace it we may just see an "RV Nomad Boom" with those between 25 and 35.  But understand I'm just guessing.   Since there are so many WIFI hot spots as there are now, I can see it edging closer each day for them.  Perhaps a growth in campsites with shore power, WIFI, Showers & Restrooms, and laundry facilities will follow.

If anyone enjoys listening to podcasts and/or has some time to listen; Heath Padgett's  "The RV Entrepreneur" is excellent and focuses on people out on the road doing just that.