I'm not a full timer yet, but my wife and I are working towards that. I'll be 41 this year, my wife turns 40. I've been with the same company for 17 years and the last 5-6 pretty much working remote. I was a QA Software Analyst (software tester) for a few of those years, now I actually manage a team of 5 software testers. I wasn't officially remote for a lot of that time, but my managers were all pretty good about it and only asked that I reported to an office now and then when upper management was visiting. My assigned office was actually in AL and I lived in GA (1 hr commute). I was fine was this setup but I was getting tired of the way I had to file taxes each year. About 2 years ago, I was discussing with my manager about having my home office being changed to our Atlanta, GA office for tax purposes even though I usually went to the AL office to avoid the horrid commute when I needed to go to an office. He suggested that we just put me in as a permanent work at home employee so I couldn't be ordered back to an office if something drastic should change with management above us. I was ecstatic and it went through so for the past 2 years I've been an official work at home employee based out of GA. I go visit the Atlanta office now and then, but I have no obligation now to actually go there to work.

As mentioned, I manage a team of 5 and I am expected to be on line during normal business hours. I'm still doing a lot of research on how to stay connected on the road so that is my main concern right now. I like Space Norman's agreement for his core time to be 8-2 and then he can put the other hours in when he wants. That would work out nice. For me, two of my employees are based out of India, 2 out of Atl, and 1 works at home in PA. I rarely ask my Atl employees report to the office with any regularity, so we all just use chat or conference calls to collaborate each day..

When I first got the work at home status, my wife and I started talking about moving to CO since we could now basically live anywhere, but we both love motorcycles and didn't know about giving up so much time of not being able to ride during snowy conditions or long periods of cold. Then we started looking into the full time RV living and that seems to be something we both think we'll and enjoy and the direction we are headed. We can kind of chase the weather and go put ourselves in nice areas we want to go explore on our motorcycles. It will make it so much easier for us to continue to explore the west on the Motorcycles which right now takes a lot of PTO time and planning.

My wife is in the dental field, so for her she can't really take her job on the road. However, she is getting burnt out anyways in her job and has been working very hard to get her own business off the ground which is something she can do from anywhere. It's still a "hobby" at this point, but I think we'll be in a great position where my salary will be fine and she can continue to focus on her new business building it from the road.

Edited August 19, 2016 by BlueLghtning

We have made our living on the road for over 17 years. We publish the Gypsy Journal RV newspaper, I'm an author with 24 books out (both mystery novels and nonfiction RV/travel books) and will be releasing #25 next week, I have a daily blog that earns money from advertising, I'm a compensated speaker at RV rallies and events, and I present seminars and workshops on self-publishing. I work on my own schedule anywhere I want. What's not to love?

Edited August 19, 2016 by Nick Russell

Our story. We were DINKS. (Double Income No KidS) My wife hated her job. Been working there for ten years. Great money, nothing else in the area paid better. My job. Great money, excellent benefits. I wasn't going to move. We had motorcycles. Loved to ride. Lived in Iowa. Maybe four to five months of great riding. Only two weeks vacation per year. But still put on 15,000 to 17,000 miles per year on the motorcycles.

Wife wanted to go full-time RVing. Be able to ride year round. Never had an RV before. Rented a friend's motorhome for two weeks. I hated it. But she continued to push it. Did a lot of research on the forums and looking at motorhomes, toyhaulers, and regular 5th wheel trailers once she found the HDT forum on here. Then it was looking at HDT trucks. I decided to give it a try. Bought a used HDT, modified it to carry our two motorcycles and bought a 5th wheel trailer. See signature. Been full-timing it since October 9, 2004. Enjoyed workamping. Did get burned out having the motorcycles as our main transportation, got a car sold the motorcycles. Have loved RVing. Well most of the time. The last couple years haven't enjoyed it as much as in the past. Think it's time to hang up the keys.

But my feelings are if you think you can afford it, just do it. There is no guarantees in life. Could be dead tomorrow.

I have a Class "A" CDL so I never need work. The wife and I just finished the Sugar Beet Harvest in MT. You bring home about $1,000 each per week. It last three or four weeks. There is many different harvest job. I found a wheat harvest job that worked from May to Nov.

I found that Wal-Mart will hire you. If you stay 6 mo. you can move to another store.

There is nation wide services like Manpower, Kelly girl, and Molly maid that do day labor. I think you can transfer from one town to another.

Find a state you like, go to Flagger school and get a job working for road construction.

Go to the local café about 6 AM and tell the server you are looking for work. When the local contractors come in she will check to see who need help that day. This is cash $$.

If you want more details or more listing, PM me. I have changed job every three years all my working life. I have lived in five states and have never been out of work.

10 years in to full-time. We volunteer about twice every 18 months for the USFWS at National Wildlife Refuge's

We love what we do. We have enough experience under our belt that we get to do some very interesting things.

We live being in an area for 3 months at a time to explore and really get a sense of the local community.

nana25k, that's pretty much what we are wanting to do...we enjoy being set up more than we do traveling and that amount of time allows for a lot of exploring and by then we would be ready to move on.

I have been an owner-operator in trucking for 40+ years. The last 15 leased to a "power only" company, which means we move someone elses semi trailers. About half the business is new trailers from manufacturer to dealer-end user, the more interesting is time sensitive show loads, rock and roll shows, golf tournements, generators to power TV vans at football games and other outdoor events. Just dropped one at Wrigley Field for the World Series.

Living full time in a 35' toyhauler was a no brainer. 3 years ago I bought a Work and Play 34FK and move it with my commercial tractor, just like any customer trailer. I park in the logical spots, AL in the winter, IN in the summer. Get parked, fool around as much as I want, then go back to work for a couple of weeks, then goof off some more. W&P stays in the spot at the RV park, secure and on a monthly rate. Literally could park anywhere in the lower 47 or anywhere in Canada if I wanted.

We have at least 6 other drivers in our 200 truck fleet that do the same. After 4 million miles, staying put is a vacation for me. I do about half as many miles as I used to when I worked full time.

I was employed by a major multinational corporation in an upper middle management job of some sort for many years.

There was a time when I was in charge of the entire corporate world headquarters building. After everyone had moved out and I was the only one left.

For an extended period of time, I didn't know who my boss was, or what my job was, if in fact I had one. But I showed up each morning, got a cup of coffee and read the Wall Street Journal from front to back. During all of that time, I continued to get paid.

One day I went home and my wife said "Guess what happened today?"

"I dunno", I replied.

She smiled, and exclaimed "You got a pay raise today." She had seen the amount direct deposited into our bank.

No one from the company ever came to me, and told me about it. When I got the raise was during a time when the corporate payroll system was being converted to new computer software, so I felt maybe my pay raise was due to an error in the conversion. Later, the new system was audited by our external auditors, who informed me no problems were found during their review. So I wiped the sweat from my brow and carried on doing more of the same. Mostly nothing. And I never said anything but good things about my company after that happened. How could I not?

During the latter years of my employment there, I did have a small organization of people reporting to me. But I had had enough and decided to officially retire.

They gave me a going away party at a swanky restaurant. I got a retirement gift, and a card.

I opened the envelope and read the card out loud in front of the gathering.

The front of the card said "Why would a person want to leave a job being paid hundreds of dollars a week?"

Then I opened the card, and read the inside. "For doing absolutely nothing."

Well, they had a point there. But I retired anyway. That was nearly 17 years ago.

And I've been doing pretty much of the same ever since.

Edited November 30, 2016 by MT_Flyfisher

Hey, they were nice enough to train you for retirement!!! Now that's a great deal!!!

I own a small Corporate Travel Management Company (small to mid-size companies hire me to run and manage their travel programs), my husband and I co-own a media company called Married with Motorcycles and host a weekly radio show. I can literally work from anywhere as long as I have my computer and internet, although I do have to maintain my client's hours.

We can't go full time yet, since my retired mother lives with us at our house, but it does mean that we can take off for a month or so with the dogs and motorcycles. We have a Toy Hauler and we're about to try our first month away from home doing the California coast.