I am wondering how many of you work part-time 10-20 hr freelancing or building other's MVP while still having a full-time job. Did you have to sign any agreement to the full-time employer for this ?
Ask HN: Are you working paid part-time while still having a full-time job?
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#2Most employment agreements I've signed have at least a notification clause, if not an approval one.
Those may be illegal in your jurisdiction but in most places in the US they arent.
You should verify this before starting to look for part time work.
Respectfully, I'd argue that building your own skill set or business is going to be exponentially more valuable use for those hours anyway, unless you really need the cash.
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#3Most employment agreements I've signed have at least a notification clause, if not an approval one. Those may be illegal in your jurisdiction but in most places in the US they arent. You should verify this before starting to look for part time work. Respectfully, I'd argue that building your own skill set or business is going to be exponentially more valuable use for those hours anyway, unless you really need the cas…
I ran a remote team doing part time work for about a year and a half while having a full time job. For the part time work, I acted as PM and somewhat of a TLM. I learned a ton about managing people and customers. I shut it down when I felt I wasn't learning as much (and learned a lot about how not to drop customers...). It was stressful and the incremental money was only $20k-30k/yr or so. Looking back it was definitely the exposure to new roles that was the main value.
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#5I would worry about this about as much as your employer worries about ensuring they have a well thought out career development plan for you that includes a fully funded pension.
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#6What I do on my own time is none of my employer's business. Mileage and regulations may vary, of course.
I work about 20hrs a week on various side-gigs. Pretty strict about the working hours and work not overlapping with whatever my current employer is doing. It's nice to keep things separate.
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#7What I do on my own time is none of my employer's business. Mileage and regulations may vary, of course. I work about 20hrs a week on various side-gigs. Pretty strict about the working hours and work not overlapping with whatever my current employer is doing. It's nice to keep things separate.
That's usually fine, but if you worked for me doing what my team does and you were to be constantly tired out because of your side gig, you'd end up on a path to unemployment unless you committed to the full time job.
Obviously, that only applies if you do actually turn up tired all the time. If you can pull off the longer hours, rock on!
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#8Most of the clauses I've seen with larger clients (Marketing Agencies) relates to work with their clients, or overlapping "competing" services for that specific employer.
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#9When I built https://emailoctopus.com I was in a different full-time role. Unless such a clause is written in my contract, why should anything I do in my spare time need sign off from an employer?
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#10Not tech, but I have a full time job (managing disability support programs, 40+ hours a week) and a part time job (10-20 hours/week running a small one-person office), with occasional work on the road as a music tour manager (4 or 5 weekends a year). I don't always tell the main full time employer what I'm doing when I request time off, but it's always worked out so far. Main problem is tiredness when you end up working many days without actual time off. I'd be careful of making a solid hourly commitment to a second job. I just about get away with it because my employers are flexible and care more that work gets done than where I am or how I do it.