in campbellsville kentucky and the night shift is heading home from amazon fulfillment center here. home is across the street in an rv park. >> how old are you guys. >> how old? >> i think we're 67. >> yeah. >> reporter: to help ship an estimated 50 billion dollars in goods this holiday season, amazon needs lots of seasonal workers. enter camperforce, a group of nomadic retirees who cluster their mobile homes near certain amazon warehouses each fall. >> how many of these rv's are other amazon folks. >> every one of them. >> ken kiernan, 72 used to work in real estate. >> down the sheut, like lose aye at the chocolate factory. i wanted to see how that system worked. i thought it would be more robotic and i didn't k i >> reporter: the job comes with a free camp site and starts at 10.75 an hour. enough to fund a nom ad's travel so the work isn't easy. >> the woman that was right here in this spot, she con take it. she just pulled out and said i can't take it. i'm bored to death and i am hurting all over. >> reporter: but jim fitzpatrick, 62, retired air force doesn't mind the 13 miles

campbellsville, kentucky, 66-year-old ex-general contractor, stowed merchandize during the overnight shift as an amazon warehouse. pushing a wheeled cart for miles along the concrete floor. it's i mind, numbing job she struggles to scan each item accurately, hoping to avoid getting fired. in the morning, she returns to her tiny trailer, moored at one of several mobile home parks that contract with amazon to put um nomadic workers like her. in north carolina, a whom hose home is a tier drop style trailer so install it can be pulled with a motorcycle, is couch surfing with a friend while hundreding for work. even with masters degree the 38-year-old nebraska native can't find a job despite filling out hundreds of applications in the past month alone. she knows the sugar beet harvest is hiring but traveling halfway across the country would error cash than she has. losing her job as a nonprofit several years ago, is one of the reasons she moved into the trailer in the first place. after the funding for her position ran out, she couldn't afford rent on top of paying off student loans. in s