Let's Try This Again

We visited the Western Horizon park in Desert Hot Springs, Desert Pools, and met with the manager, Kathy, about the 2 openings they have for their staff. We got the jobs.

Here's the deal. Josie will work in the office for 15 hours a week and I will do "LIGHT" maintenance for 15 hours a week. The discussion about maintenance was very detailed and will include pool maintenance, cleaning sites, fixing an occasional leak and NO concrete work, electrical work, building projects, or heavy lifting. Our work days will be Tue-Thu every week which gives us Fri-Mon off every week. We will work 5 hours each of those days. Our site will be paid and we will get a $40 per month credit for electric. Right now, the time frame has us scheduled to arrive on Saturday, January 9, begin working on the 12th, and staying until mid April. We also informed the manager that Josie had a commitment to work at the Palm Springs flower shop during Valentine's week and she indicated that I could work her 15 hours that week to make up for Josie's time. This should cover us until we leave for our summer jobs.

We are happy that we both will be working together again on the same days, for the same hours. I will be nervous about the maintenance job until I know for sure what it involves, but we are almost certain that it is what I was hoping for at Thousand Trails. The fact that it is only for 15 hours a week vs 40 hours makes a huge difference by itself. We also made sure that we selected a site that has a clear satellite view to the south. The sites are much larger than here and we are hoping that the whole experience is an enjoyable one.

Our time between now and Saturday will be spent relaxing in the warm sun and doing what little preparation needs to be done for our departure...