This is not the romantic portrayal of road tripping across the United States, but driving to low-paying-back-breaking job to low-paying-and-back-breaking job.
These people are trying to survive - without heat, medical care and sometimes food.
Corporations like Amazon to private agencies contracted to national parks take advantage of these people to staff short term, part time positions.
It is heartbreaking to read about these people who have fallen on hard times but inspiring to read about the community they have embraced.
Tips are shared, including where to find cheap dental care in Mexico and how to convert a bucket into a toilet.
Similar to Janesville, it is especially jarring to find people whose lives & struggles I have read on social media, that these are not characters in a book nor do they necessarily have a happy ending.
I imagine by parents - some of these Workampers are in their 70s - living in a car or old camper driving miles on end for menial and hard labor jobs and it really is heart breaking.
This is what America has come to, the divide between the haves and have-nots getting more vast and shocking that a nation so wealthy has so many people living on so little.
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