Workamper

Another workamper, employed with California Land Management in 2015, gave the company a one-star review on Yelp, claiming she and her husband were often on the job for twelve hours or longer in a given day but weren’t allowed to file for more than eight.

Workampers are modern mobile travelers who take temporary jobs around the US in exchange for a free campsite – usually including power, water and sewer connections – and perhaps a stipend. […] Other workampers I spoke with had their own ways of describing themselves.

In the workamper community, CamperForce jobs are often in high demand, with positions often filling up within weeks after they’re posted online, workers told CNBC. But it’s definitely tough work. […] But five years on, Martinez-Machen said she and her wife have adapted to the workamper cycle of seasonal jobs, with Amazon serving as the couple’s “sole source of income and our plans for the fall and winter every single year.”