The Move to Remote, Part 2

Professional RV Roof Installation Technician

If you read my previous post, RV Life.19, I was looking and searching for a remote job in the Content Creation and Customer Relations industry, and then expanded to Data Analytics after finishing a Data Analytics certification program. That didn’t pan out or equate to much of anything after a while, so then I started to expand my job hunting and searching even broader to include anything I felt that my experience applied to. I will tell you what, the job market at the current time is a complete buyer’s game. I was told this recently and absolutely agree to all ends. I probably put out over 300 applications and only got a handful of call backs. Companies are being more selective than ever right now. Whether a small business or fortune 500, and everything in between, it’s a battle of who has the most skills and then head to head at that point. If you do not have 10 + years and are not an expert in your field of choice, then forget it. If you are not a senior level or executive level and team member, forget it. So what do I do from here?

Current Time. So I’ve finally made it to the point in which I am in training to become a certified RV Roof Installer with RV Armor. I had a heck of a time earlier on in our RV Life as full timers finding any good information about RV Roofs. It was not that the reading materials were not there, it was that I wasn’t really looking that hard at the time and I had a different full time job, and my roof was never actually leaking. I had not previously, before the past six month, thought too much about being a RV Roof Technician but a few moments here and there. So time went by, work kept happening, and before you knew it, we were at 3 1/2 years into the RV life, and I had no full time job. So a friend of mine said call this guy from RV Armor and I’ll put in a good word for you. two months later approximately I’m now sitting in the training class to be a RV Roof Installer.

Previous Time. In the beginning of our RV Life Adventures my wife and I talked about me becoming a full time RV Technician. I started looking around at different websites, watching many rv tech videos on youtube, and thought, that can’t be too hard to start and get work. Just as a side gig, I helped a few people here and there, didn’t charge that much at all, but didn’t get that much extra work either. All that was largely due to the fact that I had a full time brick and mortar job. Most of the work I could do was evenings or weekends when people didn’t want work done on their rigs. That was a slight let down. I knew I would have to go all in or not at all at that point. It was now a waiting game.

Current Time. Now that I am gaining a certification to be a professional RV Roof Installer I will also be able to push out my RV Tech business right along with it. My primary focus will be roofs, first and foremost. Second, I love working with and specializing in RV Electrical and Plumbing. Interesting as it is to myself, I never thought plumbing to be an interesting industry application and skill, not until I started working on RVs. And as you can see in other posts that I’ve put up on my website, I built up and outfitted our Sprinter Van into a fully capable and livable Class B RV. Only by the Grace of God would I have ever built up and gained the skills necessary to do this kind of work. I would absolutely build more camper vans. Our van has been my favorite project to date. A lot of dirty and heavy work, but incredibly satisfying when I finished the entire project. And as I continue adding more finishing touches to the van, it becomes even more satisfying every step of the way.

Again, to reiterate, my initial goal was to be a remote rv technician. Now I am. Now I can be my own boss. Now I can be my own work force. I can set my schedule. I can take time off when I need to without asking permission from five other people, and have to wait at least two days for a response. In turn, that does not mean that I can slack off. That does not mean that I don’t have to work hard. It means that I am even more responsible for my own actions. It means that I have a larger responsibility to everyone that my work impacts. But why then chase down my own independent business? Because it’s just the right thing to do. In today’s economy, working for myself just feels right. I do not want to be under the control of someone else and at their mercy and good grace for all of my efforts sake. I want to be able to repay myself for my hard work.