- Meg and Ty DeWitt are a married couple of 28 and 33 years respectively. Both work as patients in different medical centers in the United States.
- The couple have short-term contracts in hospitals with a shortage of staff, so they spend the whole year traveling from one point of the country to another.
- As detailed by the marriage, this decision also served to meet their long-term financial goals.
Meg and Ty DeWitt are a married couple of 28 and 33 years respectively. They both work as sick in different medical centers USA.
The couple who live as nomadic nurses have short-term contracts in hospitals with a shortage of staff, so they spend the whole year traveling from one part of the country to another. In order to meet all these professional challenges and travel more efficiently, in 2019, the DeWitts moved all his life to a van and since then, this vehicle has become at home.
“Being able to travel the country and see what each state has to offer when it comes to adventure, and get paid to do it… is why I wanted to become a traveling nurse“Ty explained to the CNBC. After several years working on short-term contracts for the same hospital, the couple decided to bet on the nomadic life and became itinerant nurses or nomadic nurses.
Economic benefits
As detailed by the marriage of nomadic nurses, this decision also served to meet their long-term financial goals.
This is because the couple can save up to $20,000 per month, which translates into more than 19,000 euros. With their previous contracts, the professionals each earned around 700 dollars per week, about 670 euros. However, as the DeWitts have pointed out, as itinerant nurses, each one generates about 2,900 dollars (more than 2,700 euros) a week.
Regarding their life in the van, both have expressed that this decision was made after these several months with anxiety for having to look for a home with little time in advance, for a few months or weeks.
“Before we had the truck, there were a couple of times we were driving into town and we kept calling people, trying to find a place to stay,” Ty said.
live in a van
The nurses bought a old fedex van in 2019 by $26,000. In addition, they sold their old vehicle, a Honda Civic, for just over 2,000 euros. For its maintenance and adaptation to make this space more habitable, the couple invested almost 4,000 euros. The truck has allowed Meg and Ty save much more of what they earn as health professionals.
“Comparatively, you are spending $400 a month on a vehicle payment, compared to $1,400 on rent,” the man said.
They also pay between 380 and 600 euros a month to reserve a space to park the van, either in a camp or outside someone’s house. Among the reforms they carried out, the couple included a mini kitchenso they save money by eating from their parking lot.
“Instead of going out to eat, we can stop anywhere on the road and make a full dinner or lunch,” Meg explained.
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