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How This Dog Walker Travels The Country In An RV
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Meet Amy Woldrich, a 35-year-old working nomad traveling America in an RV and making up to $1,000 a week! How does she earn the consistent dough while living in an RV and maintaining the RV lifestyle? Her flexible and lucrative side gig with a dog walking app can be credited to her success, along with doing freelance pet photography. With her husband, Woldrich has been on the road for 11 months, having hit Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada; Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; and El Paso, Texas walking dogs through Rover. Dog walking apps are big business: Wag raised $300 million in January; Australia-based Mad Paws recently received $5 million from Qantas Airlines; and Rover, which features on-demand drop-in visits and doggy day care, options other apps currently do not have, raised $125 million in a private equity round led by T. Rowe Price in May.
According to the article written by Jimmy Im from CNBC, "The selection process to be a dog walker is strict (Wall Street Journal compared getting a dog walking job to getting into Harvard), but once you're in, you can make a comfortable living." It's enough to keep their journey going. "Expenses on the road are minimal," Woldrich says. "We no longer have car payments and our rent for the places we park are usually between $300 to $600 a month, and they often include utilities." She says one of their biggest expenses is repairs; for example, she paid nearly $700 for a new air conditioning unit. Woldrich's RV lifestyle means she moves to a different city every month. She says this is the downside of being in the dog walking business, because she loses repeat clientele and has to start over again with new dogs.
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