How I saved $20,000 in 83 days at a Temp Agency Job to Travel For a Year

The Art of Saving Twenty Thousand Dollars in 90 days

Before we get into how I saved $20,000 in 3 months at a dead end job thatAOWANDERS showing how to save $20,000 in 3 months in this step by step guide.  I saved $20,000 in 3 months so that I had enough money to travel for a year.  a high school drop could get so that I had enough money to travel for a year.  Let’s back up a little bit.  The other day I got an email from one of you that triggered a few alarm bells about my longterm RV living travel blog.  Claiming that I wasn’t sharing my expertise by telling you to do this or that, but lacking any real detail of how to. 

This struck me as odd and bugged me for over a week.  Until I realized she wasn’t attacking me or my travel blog.  She was just frustrated at not being able to find the answers to her questions, and lashing out at the next website owner that failed to do so.  She truly just wanted to learn something in an atmosphere like an apprentice sitting side by side picking their brain.  A relationship that is difficult for the internet to master, but not only do I strive to go above and beyond I promise to go into microscopic detail of how I saved $20,000 in less than 3 months.  But please keep in mind this is a longterm RV living travel blog with a focus on budget travel and cheap RV living.  Helping others avoid common RV mistakes.

Why did I need to save $20,000?

The quickest method to saving $20,000 fast is hibernation and logging overtime hours.  This is me holding the $20,000 I saved in 3 months working a temp agency job.How come I needed to save $20,000 in 3 months?  The simple answer?  To gain financial freedom because I hated my life and my job at that particular time.   But a better answer is I’ve been exploring the backcountry of America for the last 10 years.  Jumping from one adventure job to the next to support my life of travel.  Which can best be summed up more as a working vacation.  By traveling from one tourist town to the next absorbing the atmosphere and culture of the most iconic destinations our country has to offer.  All the while working at some job that had no possibility of being anything but a short term temporary gig. And throughout my travels I’ve uncovered one constant variable in the equation of longterm travelers.  Almost all of the globetrotters I have met have saved between $15,000 & $25,000 before embarking on their big trip of traveling for a year.  And those that started a blog have never punched a time card again.  So it’s my turn to take a shot at financial freedom, and exploring all that longterm RV living has to offer. 

Reasons for wanting to save $20,000

I saved $20,000 in 83 days because I want to travel the world, but the ways I saved money can be used by anyone.  To get out of debt, create a nest egg or simply purchase a big ticket item like a house or a car.  The mental drive I had to save $20,000 was because for the last two years I’ve been doing nothing but simply existing to survive on a 30 day treadmill that was killing my soul. 

How did I save $20,000 in 3 months?

The easiest way for me to answer how I saved twenty thousand dollars in three months is hibernation and overtime. That doesn’t help you figure out how to save $20,000 in 3 months though does it?  So let’s break it down.  Step by step.  With full transparency on how I personally saved $20,000 in 83 days working a temp agency job in Plymouth Minnesota. 

How Can You Save $20,000 In A Year?

First, most people won’t be able to do what I did because of the compromises and concessions you will have to make to reach the $20,000 goal in 90 days.  Depending on your situation it might be more realistic to aim for saving $20,000 in a year.  Whatever time frame you choose to pick the variables in the equation are the same. 

Setting Yourself Up For Big Savings

The first thing you need to do is put yourself in a position to succeed.  For me this meant I needed to find a job that paid a livable wage with unlimited overtime.  Not an easy thing to do with the rising cost of living in America, but temp agencies have an unlimited list of borderline candidates that fit this bill.

Most of them will be some form of brainless assembly line type of work.  Where the only requirement to collect a paycheck is simply log the soul draining time sucking hours to reach your $20,000 goal.  Trust me I’m not being melodramatic here.  It probably didn’t help that when I visited the temp agency I told them, “I wanted a brainless job with no customers, no uniform, no coworkers and unlimited overtime with a base wage of $3,000 a month.” 

Within a matter of minutes I had my list of possible new employers.  My top two candidates to reach my goal of saving $20,000 was between a CNC milling job and a warehouse food picker job.  Neither of those two prospects had any appeal for a lifelong career, nor had I even dreamt of that’s what I wanted to be when I grew up. 

In the spirit of full transparency I have never worked any type of factory, warehouse or manufacturer job.  The only reason I am aware of the possibilities of temp agency jobs is because I have a friend who makes $80,000 a year driving around a forklift picking food orders for restaurants.  Which is why I shortlisted the warehouse food picker job.  I ended up choosing the CNC milling job because I didn’t want to spend 12 plus hours a day in a walk in cooler picking food orders.  I was already signing up for a number of compromises. I didn’t want to add freezing my ass off for 12 hours a day to the list. 

Taking the first steps to saving $20,000

I didn’t need to do a formal interview before my first day of work, or provide any proof of experience.  No background checks or reference verifications.  That’s not how temp agencies work.  Their only requirement is pretty much verifying you have a pulse, and all I had to do was pass a drug test.  Simple enough.  The next thing I had to do was make sure I kept my eye on the prize.  Which was save $20,000 in three months

When it came to filling out “new employee paperwork” I pulled a money trick out of my “desperate broke traveler’s toolbox,” but before I tell you what that is I need to warn you first.  What I am about to disclose will most likely have some form of punishment come tax season here in the United States.  While I’m ok with the consequences I will be facing in February with the IRS you may not be.  The only reason I am ok with it right now is because I have $20,000 in my pocket as a result of how I filled out a form.

How Taxes Play A Role in Saving Twenty Thousand Dollars

What the heck am I talking about?  Every tax season I get a refund.  Usually north of $3,000.  If I claim what I am supposed to claim on my I-9 form I usually loose about 25% of my paycheck to taxes.  Before I go off on a tirade of all the unnecessary government programs warranting 25% of my hard earned paycheck.  And don’t even get me started on the fact that it jumps to 40% for every overtime hour worked above 12 OT hours. Here’s what I did.

To reach my goal of saving $20,000 in 3 months I needed to claim exempt from all federal and state taxes.  If I hadn’t I would either need a higher paying job, work more overtime or push my goal back 30 days.  I still had social security and Medicare taken out of my check because while my contributions may not be much the countries reliance of these two programs is based on day to day support.  Which I am happy to oblige. 

  

Now I’m taking a giant leap of faith here that my tax obligations in February will only be 10% of my income this year.  Forcing me to hand over $2,000 in  owed taxes while having the remaining $3,000 in my pocket now, but I also have some experience to fall back on.  Way back in 2008 I forgot to file a W-2 when submitting my taxes.  This resulted in me owing the IRS $3,000 for that mistake, and all I did was ignore it until the following tax season.  When my refund was garnished to pay for it. 

There may have been some tax loophole or technicality I could have explored, but at the end of the day I didn’t have to do anything to make it go away.  Yes, it would have been much more appealing to fund some travel related adventure, but they got their money and I got let off the hook.  So just be aware claiming exempt from payroll taxes may not be the most ideal choice depending on your situation. 

However, I do know multiple people that claim a higher number of dependents on their I-9’s and then lower that number halfway through the year.  For example, a good friend of mine claims 10 on his I-9 in January, and then in August request’s human resources to switch it to 1.  For seven months out of the year he has less taxes taken out of his paycheck, and the last four months of the year he allows the standard 25% to be withheld.  And every March he gets a direct deposit refund from the IRS.  So you don’t have to go full blown exempt if you’re worried about the repercussions.  I chose to do exempt because it was only 3 months, and I’m curious to see what tax season uncovers from this method.  It’s either going to burn me, or give me another “broke desperate traveler money making method.”  Time will tell. 

What Else Do You Need To Save $20,000 in 3 months?

The second to last piece of the puzzle you need to save $20,000 in a short period of time is a free place to live.  Easier said than done, but I’m not joking.  You need to move back in with your parents, a friend, boyfriend/girlfriend, brother/sister, long lost acquaintance, a herd of turtles or whatever you have available to you.

How To Use Couchsurfing To Save Money Fast

If none of these are an option you can always explore websites like Couchsurfing. Where you can sleep at a strangers house for short periods of time for FREE.  I met a traveler in Thailand that didn’t have a free place to stay so he would use Couchsurfing to find free short term accommodations.  While he worked towards his goal of $25,000.  It took him 5 months, 12 jobs and the last two months he just slept in his car with a gym membership.  Were there’s a will there’s a way.  Longterm travelers tend to think a bit more unconventionally though than most.     

Free Housing Alternative

Couchsurfing is an amazing resource to meet some really cool people.  Plus it also allows you to take “travel life” for a test drive.  Before you go out and buy one way plane tickets and find yourself in a foreign country all alone.  Maybe you’re not ready to rely on strangers, or that seems a bit more riskier than you’re comfortable with. 

Another wonderful free housing option that gives you more control with less vulnerability is an RV!  These tiny mobile homes will allow you to call home anywhere you can find a parking spot.  Better known as urban boondocking.  Allowing you to delete numerous monthly financial obligations while still providing the comforts of home.  Better yet you can purchase a reliable RV for less than one month’s salary, and when you’re done with it sell it for what you purchased it for.  A great return on your investment.  Especially if you’re planning on saving $20,000 for a gap year or an international backpacking trip. 

The Benefits of Cheap RV Living & RV Life

But Adam I’m trying to save money not spend money, and I’ve never owned an RV.  Let alone buy an RV!  Don’t worry at the top of this page is the most comprehensive RV buying guide on the internet today, or follow anyone of the links in this section to take you there.  Remember when I told you this is a longterm RV living travel blog with a focus on budget travel and cheap RV living?  I meant it and an RV allows you to put yourself in a position to save $20,000 fast!  Anywhere in America.

If you don’t have the time to read my RV buying guide that’s ok.  Here’s a quick hit list of reasons why you should buy an RV to obtain your $20,000 savings goal. 

  1. No RentI used RV life to save $20,000 in 3 months by urban boondocking with my travel trailer and working a temp agency job.  Here are the steps I took to save $20,000 in 3 months.
  2. No Utilities
  3. No Commute
  4. Temporary
  5. Resale value allows you to recoup your investment
  6. Pet Friendly
  7. Storage for your gear and other belongings
  8. Equipped with
    1. Bathroom
    2. Bedroom
    3. Kitchen
    4. Living room
    5. Heat, A/C, Electricity & All the appliances of your current home

Why You Will Hate Vanlife

Vanlife is awfule.  Vanlife is cramped,expensive and nothing more than a mobile bed.  I am glad I did not choose van life to try and save $20,000 in 3 months.  You don’t need a big fancy rig either. Check out my first RV experience, or all the RV mistakes I made along the way.  The smaller the better, and I wouldn’t recommend anything to do with vanlife.  If you need to know why.  Vanlife is awful because it’s expensive, cramped and is nothing more than a mobile bed.  To get a vanlife rig that you can stand up in with a bathroom will cost you more than $20,000, and you will have a 3 foot by 6 foot living space.  If you think living in a walk-in closet that includes a bed, bathroom, kitchen and all your stuff with a 20 inch wide walkway by all means go get a van. 

Instead of an overpriced no amenity having van go get yourself a $2500-$4000 RV that is under 25 feet long.  You will thank me later I promise.  If you really want to build something like vanlife go get yourself a 16-20 passenger shuttle bus.  It’s a bigger footprint to build on. Larger payload, higher towing capacity and much more powerful engines built to last 500,000 miles, and you can find em all over craigslist for under $5,000.   They are a dime a dozen. 

Boondocking Is The Secret Weapon

Where do you park?  To eliminate as many variables that could go wrong you should try and land a gig that is weekend overnights.  Because generally manufacturer’s and warehouse employers are surrounded by other businesses that operate the Monday through Friday 9 to 5 routine.  Which provides endless options to urban boondock at with nobody around to inquire what you’re doing.   So the smaller the rig you have the better.  I was using my 30 foot travel trailer with a 12 foot slide and 3400 watt generator that requires a minimum of a 60 x 16 foot parking spot to chase down my $20,000 in three months.  Absolutely ridiculous, I know, but it’s what I already I owned.

The only incident I had was at a church that I had stayed at 6 days in a row.  Lesson learned.  The bigger the business the bigger the parking lot and easier to blend in, but don’t over stay your welcome.  I stayed at parking lots for restaurants, movie theaters, health clubs, big box retailers and countless M-F closed on weekends, style type of businesses. 

There was even a day use only recreational park nearby that worked out perfect.  Work during the night.  Sleep during the day and the police or local residents couldn’t tell me I couldn’t use the free public parking lot during park hours.  Same with the park and rideshare lot down the road.  Hotels, hospitals and strip malls during the week were also fair game.  It wasn’t the ideal setup, but it was only 83 days.  The first 30 days is fumbling around in the dark trying to figure it all out. Once you get into a routine than its really only 4 to 5 weeks of annoyance because once you see the finish line time flies.    

 

How To Reach Your Goal of $20,000

The final step in saving $20,000 in 3 months is logging hours.  Its mind numbingly boring.  Exhausting and unbearable at times.  Over the course of 11 ½ weeks I logged ten 72+ hour work weeks and one 100+ hour work week.  I did nothing but work, eat and fall asleep to movies.  I ignored my friends, family, blog and even my health. 

I was turning into a raging alcoholic because the only way I could get enough sleep in between shifts was to drink until I passed out.  I’ve deleted that sentence more times than you’ll ever know, but I promised full transparency.  All this while battling a rash I got from the chemicals I was exposed too at a company that makes two commas a day, but barely pays their employees one comma a month.  Unless you do what I did for 83 straight days of hell. 

The Pay Scale At The Slave Fields of Protolabs

Whether your trying to save $20,000 in a year or 90 days it can be done.  I saved $20,000 in 90 days by living out of my camper in the city.At 1.4 million dollars every 24 hours Protolabs made $116,200,000.00 in the same time it took me to save $20,000.  That’s so disproportionate in today’s era it should be CRIMINAL!  My base pay was $15.40/ hour, but because I was working the weekend overnight shift I got a $3.50 hourly wage differential.  Making my actual wage $18.90/hr.  Giving me an overtime wage of $28.35/hr.  Making $208 a day during normal pay and $340 a day during overtime pay is a decent wage, but not as good as $1,400,000.00 a day! 

The sad truth about it all was my coworkers were only bringing home $543.10 in exchange for a 42 hour work week.  $2,172.40 a month compared to my $1,663.20 a week or $6,652.80 a month.  If you added those numbers up my total comes to $19,958.40 in 3 months.  That’s not $20,000 is it?  And you might be asking yourself what about food and various other expenses?

Frugal People Save More Money

Your right its not $20,000, but I also worked a couple normal work weeks before I put my nose to the grindstone.  Which allowed me to save more than $20,000 in 3 months.  I also didn’t spend money on anything that wasn’t absolutely necessary.  I paid my cell phone bill once in that 3 month stretch, and only bought gas on Mondays.  Since that seemed to always be the cheaper gas day.  I also only ate sandwiches, soup or $1 menu items at fast food joints.  Anything I needed for the RV was bought at the Dollar Store or Goodwill.  I was going to save $20,000 in 90 days no matter what it took.  I was not working that job past the month of June!

 Longterm RV Living

If you decide to take a shot at financial freedom by following my steps, andIn the end the only regrets you will have are the ones you didn't take.  Save $20,000 in 3 months to follow your dreams and live your dash! find yourself falling in love with the options RV life provides maybe you should consider longterm RV living. 

RV life embraces everything good about longterm travel, and none of the negatives of international backpacking travel.  I love longterm RV living because it allows me the freedom to roam, and call any place home for as long or as short as I want.  I don’t have to be selective in the gear I pack or the destinations I want to go. 

I simply just turn a key and go.  Figure it out when I get there.  If I am short on money every town has a restaurant, and they pay cash daily.  If I just want a paycheck with no accountability I just found out temp agencies are compatible with a life of travel as well. 

Longterm RV Living provides an endless amount of travel options, locations, ways to make money and the ability to embark on the pursuit of happiness at your own pace through your own desires. 

             

The Freedom You’ll find after YOU Save $20,000

It doesn’t matter your background, finances or location.  We all have one thing in common, and that is to obtain financial freedom so that we can travel more.  Make today the day you pursue your goals with a burning passion.  Take it one step at a time, but at least take the step towards the future you’ve been dreaming about for far too long.  Remember, tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone, make today the day.  If you want something you have never had before you need to do something you have never done before. 

Whether its buying an RV, renting an RV, buying a one way plane ticket or really examining what you want out of life make today the day.  And remember procrastination is where dreams go to die. 

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13 Comments

    • Catherine,

      Thanks for visiting my travel blog. That was just this last summer so I haven’t done my taxes yet. Couple more weeks and I’ll find out if I got another travel tip in my tool box for all of you. Happy New Year Hope its an amazing one.

      Adam

      • Hey Adam,

        Thanks again for the reply on your how to make money while living in an rv post. I’m very interested to see how tax season works out. This will be a very valuable gold nugget in planning my next year or two.

    • Catherine,
      I love that you made this comment. THank you for holding me accountable!! But its on the way. Should be published by Monday at the latest. I’ll email you a link when it goes live. 😀 😀 ;D

  • I loved the updated article on saving $20,000 you provided about how your tax season went after you implemented your overtime strategy. The fact that you followed through with it and even responded to my email inquiry was very helpful and totally refreshing. I also have a followup question to this article about how you moved forward with the temp agency. You literally said to them… “I wanted a brainless job with no customers, no uniform, no coworkers and unlimited overtime with a base wage of $3,000 a month.” The temp agency knew the company would give you the unlimited overtime as an option? It’s also interesting that it seems like certain temp agencies require more application type information than others. You really didn’t have to go through a formal interview process for the job, and they didn’t expect you to stay on long term? I haven’t had an interview in many, many years and always used to feel disingenuous about my intentions of “sticking around.” You know… where do you see yourself with the company in 5 years and all those fun types of interview questions. I’ve been on the move in my RV every two weeks or more for the last 5 and a half months while enjoying the National Forest (wildfires and covid not withstanding), but it’s time for a little break from the constant hopping about and time to replenish the funds, so it’s finally time to try this OT strategy and see if I can save $20,000.

    • Catherine,

      I reply to every comment and every email I get. I love it when I get emails or notifications that someone left a comment or email for me to answer. To answer your first question, I don’t have a great deal of “respect” for temp agencies. For whatever reason up until this point I had never seen them in a positive light, and had no exposure to them to dismay that unfounded stereotype I had of temp agency employment. So yes, I literally told the lady, “I am looking for a brainless job where I don’t have to deal with customers, company uniform, annoying co-workers and unlimited overtime needs to be a thing because no company pays a liveable wage anymore. So I need a base wage of $3,000 with unlimited overtime to atleast make a liveable wage!”

      Temp agencies work very closely with the companies they rep. Sometimes they even have an onsite agent or onboarding employee that they talk with on a daily basis. So they know what companies offer and what they don’t offer. They know what questions they need to prescreen and answer and which ones to ignore. And when you get a job at a temp agency you actually aren’t an employee for that company until you complete the probation period. So the temp agency is the one hiring you, paying you and tracking your hours, but they are getting paid from the company to pay you. For example, company “A” pays temp agency lets say $20/hour. The temp agency pays you $17/hour, and you need to be a model employee for 90 days before you can actually be hired on at company “A” who will then pay you $20. So the temp agency actually has great incentive to fill open positions because they get a % of your hourly wage. So they put very little effort into screening you as long as you check most of the boxes the company is looking for.

      Each temp agency operates differently, and each will have their own standard operating procedures. But the reason why I felt brazen enough to tell the temp agency what I did when looking for a job is because the first temp agency I ever worked for was beyond casual. This temp agency who I hadn’t had any communication with in years emailed me out of the blue a job opportunity called “Security oversite specialist,” and because i wasn’t looking for a job at that time in my life I responded back with, “What the fuck is a security oversite specialist?”

      They replied with, “Its an overnight security officer position watching vacant land while this company builds a solar panel field.”
      I asked how much, and they told me $21/hour. Then I asked when and where, and was told it was in Minnesota and could start that night. No face to face interaction or evena phone call with the person I was talking to or the company I was going to work for. They told me just to write down my hours and take a picture with my phone to send as a text message at the end of the week. I literally wrote 11pm-7am x5 on the back of an envelope and sent that as a picture for my time clock hours. They sent me a reloadable pre-paid credit card and loaded my wages on it at midnight that day. I worked there for 3 months until they finished buidling the solar panel field and all I did was watch netflix and drink beer while getting paid. I even brought my dog with me and the last month I parked my RV right on site. They didn’t care. So when it came to this new temp agency job I was applying from extremely relaxed work environment from previous employer.

      This new employer was way more regulatory and accountable, but still extremely relaxed. As long as you got your job done they didn’t care. It also helped that I worked overnight instead of a day shift as that shift by default is a bit more of a relaxed environment in general right? By taking that shift I kind of set myself up with the variables I needed for the job atmosphere I was looking for. Had I taken the day shift there would have been more accountability and more “checking in.” Along with quota’s and overzealous coworkers you just don’t find on night shift jobs. I also never told anyone that this was temporary gig for me. I said all the right things when asked or in a situation that called for making them believe I was going to be there longterm. Because no employer is going to hire anyone on a temporary basis because why train someone to temporary fill a role when you can hire someone permanent. Plus when you get hired on permanently after your 90 day probation you get full benefits and a pay bump. They didn’t need to know, and I don’t feel bad in the least because they make $130+million dollars every 90 days. And don’t even pay their employees a liveable wage. After working seasonal jobs and “adventure jobs” for over 12 years I have no loyalty to any employer. They will cut your hours if you give them notice. They will fire you for the most trivial and mundane things. You will get reprimanded for the most unimportant items. Employers are awful, and show no appreciation for the people that put massive amounts of money in their pocket. So I take no pride or joy in approaching employers like this, but all they do is look out for themselves so I do the same thing.

      I would say if you plan on parking for a bit. Just go get a job and if required to even do an interview answer them with fluff answers just so you can get your foot in the door and get that paycheck. After that who cares how long you stay, or even how well your liked. You have the opportunity to explore a freedom most of them will never know. Hell I even boondocked in their parking lot most nights, and the questions I would get from fellow coworkers were out of this world.

      Just clock your hours. Remember your goal, and don’t let them get in the way of your dreams. Happy travels.

      Adam

  • Thank you again for that wonderfully transparent peek behind the curtain. Gotta admit, you wetted my curiosity with the statement… the questions I would get from fellow coworkers were out of this world… Also, you managed to boondock in the company parking lot most nights without getting in trouble with management or the cops? Impressive.

    • Catherine,

      Absolutely, glad I could help, and transparency is my biggest concern because I hate reading something that doesn’t fully cover the topic! As I said in my previous reply third shift for lack of a better word is a very lazy non-chalant environment. Employers that use temp agencies are very relaxed when it comes to “normal” employer work environments and rules. Knowing these two combinations at first I made every attempt possible not to stay in their parking lot, and boondocked in other area business parking lots. Mostly in businesses that were closed on the weekend to avoid any of that other “your not supposed to be here nonsense,” but one night I was just too tired and stayed there. Nobody said anything, and I made sure I was parked in the most inconvenient space. After that, whats the old saying, “give an inch take a mile?” I knew it was a temporary gig. I knew this wasn’t the life I wanted to live, and so knowing that I had little gratitude for the employment. No respect for it, and treated it as the bullshit job it was. It was merely a means to an end, and if for some reason I got fired or quit there are 800 gazillion other dead end jobs to fill its void.

      Regards,
      Adam

  • If you want to save some money during tax season, Alaska, Florida, New Hampshire Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming don’t have state income taxes so you would only have to claim exempt for the federal.

    • Anton,

      Thats a good point I should have mentioned that in this article. Thanks for bringing that up.

      Happy Holidays & thanks for visiting my travel blog.

      Regards,
      Adam

  • Anton,

    I did find out this year that doesn’t matter. I claimed residency in Alaska, but if you make over a certain amount your still required to file a return. In Minnesota that threshold is $16,000ish and I was required to file a return that had me owing the MN Department of Reven $431 in back taxes.

    So keep that in my travelers, and my all your travels be full of adventures.

    Happy Travels
    AOWANDERS

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