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Re: Overemployed – Work Two Remote Jobs

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Post by endemic »

Flankk wrote: post #6
toomanyrichies wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's my biggest reservation about doing this. I feel like the possibility of one finding out about the other would weigh on me pretty heavily. Not that I think it's unethical, mind you. I'd just be stressed about the worst-case scenario and the impact it would have on my career. Would love the double income though, not gonna lie.

Of course it's unethical, it's time theft. It requires you to be dishonest. You can make money as a con artist in many ways, this is just one of them. You can lie about your qualifications and experience too. If your only reservation with being dishonest is the possibility you might get caught, I think that says a lot about you as a person.

How is it different than working two shifts?

Re: Overemployed – Work Two Remote Jobs

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Post by [deleted] »

Flankk wrote: post #6
toomanyrichies wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's my biggest reservation about doing this. I feel like the possibility of one finding out about the other would weigh on me pretty heavily. Not that I think it's unethical, mind you. I'd just be stressed about the worst-case scenario and the impact it would have on my career. Would love the double income though, not gonna lie.

Of course it's unethical, it's time theft. It requires you to be dishonest. You can make money as a con artist in many ways, this is just one of them. You can lie about your qualifications and experience too. If your only reservation with being dishonest is the possibility you might get caught, I think that says a lot about you as a person.

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Re: Overemployed – Work Two Remote Jobs

#16

Post by GiorgioG »

Flankk wrote: post #6
toomanyrichies wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's my biggest reservation about doing this. I feel like the possibility of one finding out about the other would weigh on me pretty heavily. Not that I think it's unethical, mind you. I'd just be stressed about the worst-case scenario and the impact it would have on my career. Would love the double income though, not gonna lie.

Of course it's unethical, it's time theft. It requires you to be dishonest. You can make money as a con artist in many ways, this is just one of them. You can lie about your qualifications and experience too. If your only reservation with being dishonest is the possibility you might get caught, I think that says a lot about you as a person.

If a person can do the job that's expected of them I don't find it unethical (assuming they're not working for competitors, utilizing resources of one employer for the other, etc.) They're not hourly employees and double-billing.

Employers are dishonest and unethical all the time. Just because the norm is having one employer (to the primary benefit of the employer) does not make it unethical to have 2 jobs.

Having said that, I wouldn't want to deal with the stress of one employer finding out about the other(s).

Re: Overemployed – Work Two Remote Jobs

#18

Post by darepublic »

toomanyrichies wrote: post #4
GiorgioG wrote: post #3

I have a friend that does this, has 3 jobs...makes nearly 500k. IMHO, it's not worth the stress though.

That's my biggest reservation about doing this. I feel like the possibility of one finding out about the other would weigh on me pretty heavily. Not that I think it's unethical, mind you. I'd just be stressed about the worst-case scenario and the impact it would have on my career. Would love the double income though, not gonna lie.

You can always outsource parts of the job too

Re: Overemployed – Work Two Remote Jobs

#19

Post by ghaff »

endemic wrote: post #11
Flankk wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course it's unethical, it's time theft. It requires you to be dishonest. You can make money as a con artist in many ways, this is just one of them. You can lie about your qualifications and experience too. If your only reservation with being dishonest is the possibility you might get caught, I think that says a lot about you as a person.

How is it different than working two shifts?

There are jobs where you're clearly just trading time for money. And there are jobs where you're basically expected to be working for multiple clients (but presumably not sharing confidential information)--though in some industries that means not taking jobs from multiple competitors. But, yes, taking multiple full-time jobs in an industry and lying about it makes you dishonest. Of course, if the companies are just fine about it that's totally cool.

Re: Overemployed – Work Two Remote Jobs

#20

Post by Flankk »

greyface- wrote: post #8
Flankk wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course it's unethical, it's time theft. It requires you to be dishonest. You can make money as a con artist in many ways, this is just one of them. You can lie about your qualifications and experience too. If your only reservation with being dishonest is the possibility you might get caught, I think that says a lot about you as a person.

If you're salaried, you're not paid for time, you're paid for output.

That is beside the point. It's expected you will bring your best effort to the job and not do half-ass sloppy work. The article is not recommending you work 16 hour days, they are recommending you bite the hand that feeds.
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