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Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?

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Post by setr »

b20000 wrote: post #90
strikelaserclaw wrote: post #74

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Why do you think this is the case? Some people can never get enough, i know some people who complain so much that you'd think they were living in the streets but their household income exceeds 500k, it is just a mentality thing.

you don't know what financial challenges they are facing, so there is no point in arguing that 500K is enough for their household.

As a company, if their financial troubles exceed 500k, why is that my problem?

Especially if I can get an equivalent resource without the excessive financial troubles for 200k that isn't moonlighting?

just because you want money doesn't mean you get money

Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?

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Post by adamsmith143 »

b20000 wrote: post #118
adamsmith143 wrote: post #110

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Imagine someone making over 200K complaining about CoL when the median income in the US is 36K... Astonishing lack of self awareness

if you want to experience lack of self awareness, go talk to some lawyers charging $800/hr

If the client is a Corporation that might be totally appropriate. If that lawyer then goes on to say how expensive his Latte has gotten then you might have an argument.

Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?

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Post by froaway4job »

randomhodler84 wrote: post #127
azth wrote: post #117

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Just because you have had a bad experience with a landlord does not make all landlords bad. Just like you probably had a bad experience at a restaurant, does that mean all restaurants are bad?

This isn’t a good analogy. And landlords like to delude and justify that they are not one of the bad guys to themselves. They say oh that’s just your experience with bad ones. No, the entire system is rotten. If restaurants went round gobbling up the food supply and then the only place to eat was at exploitative prices, then yeah, all restaurants would be scum.

I think it's an apt analogy. You seem to be implying that all landlords are huge corporations that are gobbling up all the properties out there.

Individual landlords like myself are small time. I'm pretty much a mom and pop restaurant and you're criticizing me like I'm the McDonalds corporation.

I personally know 80% of my tenants and they've been renting from me for years.

Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?

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Post by froaway4job »

quadcore wrote: post #113
froaway4job wrote: post #88

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Senior to Staff positions at medium to large private or mid cap public companies expect little from their engineers :). Definitely not 10x and I suck at leetcode style problems. I'm probably a 2xer who acts like a 1xer. That's the real secret. Don't overachieve.

You are actually the living proof there is a 5x to 10x difference between some programmers. Since you have 4.5 jobs. Thanks for coming forward.

I guess technically the math works out that way :)

In my opinion I'm seriously mediocre as an engineer. Slightly above average at best. I'm just good at managing my time, which is more of a business/personal skill than any engineering skill.

Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?

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Post by froaway4job »

the_seer wrote: post #116
froaway4job wrote: post #88

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Senior to Staff positions at medium to large private or mid cap public companies expect little from their engineers :). Definitely not 10x and I suck at leetcode style problems. I'm probably a 2xer who acts like a 1xer. That's the real secret. Don't overachieve.

Do you have an email interested individuals can contact you on?

For my own sake I'm probably going to be completely anon, but you should check out the following site for a community of overemployed folks:

https://overemployed.com/

Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?

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Post by filoleg »

Apocryphon wrote: post #107
als0 wrote: post #106

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It is real

Maybe in only some states?

Why would it vary by state, if it isn't a legal requirement in any of them.

It is purely on the employer's end, and I cannot find a legal restriction against it in any state. So it would only vary by employer.

Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?

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Post by jstx1 »

jdlshore wrote: post #98
Distozion wrote: post #51

It's interesting that a lot of people here seem to consider a second FT position as immoral/illegal. How about instead of a second FT job - studying FT for an unrelated degree? The time needed is arguably the same as a second FT and context switching is still there.

I think that people are assuming fraud—working two jobs at the same time (eight hours a day), rather than two full-time jobs (16 hours a day).

Which is a fair assumption - putting 16 hours of work a day seems much less likely than someone working remotely and doing the bare minimum at 2 jobs for as long as they can get away with it.

Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?

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Post by mateo411 »

mongol wrote: post #36
solenoidalslide wrote: post #23

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Do you often get into sitcom-like situations where you are in two different meetings at once and have to make sure you avoid any unmute mishaps? I'm specifically thinking a case where you have to respond in a way that would make sense to both calls at once.

In would love to see the Seinfeld episode where George Costanza tries this. Perhaps it exists?

I don't think George Costanza ever had two jobs at the same time. He did have two girlfriends at the same time once. He found it exhausting, so arranged for both of them to meet in the same place(Monks), in order to sabotage the relationship(s). Neither of them were willing to break up with him.

Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?

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Post by airbreather »

Enginerrrd wrote: post #20
pc86 wrote: post #11

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I take a lot of issue with you framing this as "cheating." How is it cheating? How do you know the 9-5 necessarily suffers?

I'm old enough and I have done this exact thing enough to know that of course it suffers. A lot more than you want to admit too. Even if you don't ever mix the 9-5 time with the freelance time, (Which FYI is nearly impossible in practice.) you just aren't going to be at your best when you show up the next day to work your 9-5 8-hour day after having worked a full day and moonlighted for another 4-6 hours afterward th…

I work design/construction/commissioning engineering industrial machinery and plant, including automation/controls software.

On site standard days are 12 hours, crunch time 14's become normal. Depending on project this might be month on month off, 5 days on 2 days off, 8 + 6 days, sometimes every day 3 months straight, or more.

You do get used to it and can be overall productive for the hours - usually company is paying (big) by the hour so they wouldn't be paying if they are not getting.

Not everyone can do it, or wants to, but different people have different capabilities.

I've been doing it for decades.

Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?

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Post by randomhodler84 »

froaway4job wrote: post #133
randomhodler84 wrote: post #127

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This isn’t a good analogy. And landlords like to delude and justify that they are not one of the bad guys to themselves. They say oh that’s just your experience with bad ones. No, the entire system is rotten. If restaurants went round gobbling up the food supply and then the only place to eat was at exploitative prices, then yeah, all restaurants would be scum.

I think it's an apt analogy. You seem to be implying that all landlords are huge corporations that are gobbling up all the properties out there. Individual landlords like myself are small time. I'm pretty much a mom and pop restaurant and you're criticizing me like I'm the McDonalds corporation. I personally know 80% of my tenants and they've been renting from me for years.

Every house bought to rent to someone else is a owner occupier denied. It doesn’t matter if it’s big or small.

15 houses ain’t small time. You could house a small army. If you could sell them to your tenants, would you? Or do you need their blood?

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