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.
Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?
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Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?
#52I wonder how the legalities of working more than 1 (remote) job are. You'd think you'd run into some conflicting clauses in your employment contracts.
Lots of employees do it. Their 9-5 jobs suffers but pay over there is guaranteed. I know more than few startup employees who work with other startups on hourly contract basis. Part of the reason for managers to start pushing for return to office since its harder to cheat this way from office.
9-5 jobs suffer from a lot of things all the time, it's sort of what managers already expect of employees, to be actually productive maybe 3-4 hours a day. Whether one is using the rest of time on water cooler politics, checking Instagram, playing games, or doing another job, it's not necessarily as visible in the overall productivity as you may expect it to be. Especially with well organized people smart enough not to set the bar too high in the beginning.
Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?
#53I've been working multiple remote jobs for the past 4 years. I'm currently working 4 full time engineering roles and a part time contract. It's been tough but a great experience. The main struggle is scheduling and making sure you can make all the meetings. It's also tough finding the right job which gives you autonomy to form your schedule. The main perks are obviously money and not caring about getting laid off. In…
is this even legal?
Maybe, which means yes it is legal.
Will anybody come after me? Doubt it's worth it to come after an engineer making 250K and will work at your company for less than 2 years.
Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?
#54I've been working multiple remote jobs for the past 4 years. I'm currently working 4 full time engineering roles and a part time contract. It's been tough but a great experience. The main struggle is scheduling and making sure you can make all the meetings. It's also tough finding the right job which gives you autonomy to form your schedule. The main perks are obviously money and not caring about getting laid off. In…
TC or GTFO. (Am I doing that right?)
Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> Human beings can only do one thing in any moment. But not all things are equal. Some might be less than "one", and not require a full 8-hours.
Sounds like he never did the zoom meetings :D
Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?
#56I am so confused with comments in this threads. Since when did tech employees became so submissive and scared? As far as I know, having 2 jobs is not illegal, not unethical. Many, sadly, low income families have to work two or more jobs. We in tech make enough but what if you are bored and need more challenges. My current second job is family but I know multiple single engineers (or in one case, with grown up kids) w…
There's a lot of crab mentality in tech.
Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?
#57I was on the other side of this: We had a remote worker who got a new job but then tried to hide it, collecting paychecks as long as possible. For any manager paying attention, it wasn't difficult to spot. He would swing between being eager to please and virtually unreachable. We didn't have many meetings or phone calls, but he had more scheduling conflicts than anyone else. On the rare occasion that we had high urge…
It's not a problem, he's just going to lie about ever having a second job and only report his first job. That's how this works, you have a primary job which is your "real job", and others which feed you more paychecks until they realize you're underperforming and you get fired.
FWIW I'm not doing this, I'm just on the /r/overemployed subreddit.
Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?
#58FWIW, a lot of US employers report your current employment status, role and salary to databases like Equifax's 'The Work Number' - and nearly any organization that subscribes can view this data. HR departments DO look at this info and occasionally spot-check it to catch moonlighting employees. You can request your own data here: https://employees.theworknumber.com/
To provide a little more info. It is possible to request a freeze on your info, but of course they make it annoying. They appear to be sourcing the data from payroll management systems like ADP. Your organization might not even be aware that they're sharing and selling your paycheck information.
Re: Ask HN: Who here is juggling two or more remote jobs? How is it working out?
#59I've been working multiple remote jobs for the past 4 years. I'm currently working 4 full time engineering roles and a part time contract. It's been tough but a great experience. The main struggle is scheduling and making sure you can make all the meetings. It's also tough finding the right job which gives you autonomy to form your schedule. The main perks are obviously money and not caring about getting laid off. In…
TC or GTFO. (Am I doing that right?)
Currently at 1.8m ish total comp:
- 1.2m cash
- 300k RSUs (probably worthless or I leave before 4 year vesting cliff)
- 200k equity (only one job is at a publicly traded company)
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#60I was on the other side of this: We had a remote worker who got a new job but then tried to hide it, collecting paychecks as long as possible. For any manager paying attention, it wasn't difficult to spot. He would swing between being eager to please and virtually unreachable. We didn't have many meetings or phone calls, but he had more scheduling conflicts than anyone else. On the rare occasion that we had high urge…
so why didn’t you pay him more so he would not need to juggle jobs?