Overemployed

[Anonymous]

Is anyone here working two or more full-time jobs? I recently accepted a job offer and my current job does not want me to leave. I am considering overlapping the jobs for a while. They both are fully remote are two completely different roles so the work is very different from each other. Does anyone else have first-hand experience with this? I found a website called www.overemployed.com in which many folks have been doing this during the pandemic since many people are now remote.

[Anonymous]

I used to do that. I stopped when I saw how much I paid in taxes.

[Anonymous]

Give the people from overemployed a medal. I might do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to do that. I stopped when I saw how much I paid in taxes.

This doesn’t make any sense.

[Anonymous]

Check with your companies’ policies re: outside employment. Having “different roles” doesn’t mean there’s no conflict of interest.

I know someone who just got fired for doing this. The two jobs were in completely different fields, fwiw, so it wasn’t a conflict of interest. However, it was easy to see, in retrospect, why the person wasn’t available and performing up to par. Are you really going to work 80+ hours a week and be equally available to both jobs 9-5? If I were your boss and found out you were doing this and you hadn’t cleared it with me, I’d be pissed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Check with your companies’ policies re: outside employment. Having “different roles” doesn’t mean there’s no conflict of interest.

I know someone who just got fired for doing this. The two jobs were in completely different fields, fwiw, so it wasn’t a conflict of interest. However, it was easy to see, in retrospect, why the person wasn’t available and performing up to par. Are you really going to work 80+ hours a week and be equally available to both jobs 9-5? If I were your boss and found out you were doing this and you hadn’t cleared it with me, I’d be pissed.

It's like they say, "why be good at one job when you can be mediocre at two"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to do that. I stopped when I saw how much I paid in taxes.

This doesn’t make any sense.

+1. Makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check with your companies’ policies re: outside employment. Having “different roles” doesn’t mean there’s no conflict of interest.

I know someone who just got fired for doing this. The two jobs were in completely different fields, fwiw, so it wasn’t a conflict of interest. However, it was easy to see, in retrospect, why the person wasn’t available and performing up to par. Are you really going to work 80+ hours a week and be equally available to both jobs 9-5? If I were your boss and found out you were doing this and you hadn’t cleared it with me, I’d be pissed.

It's like they say, "why be good at one job when you can be mediocre at two"?

That seems to be the motto of that website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to do that. I stopped when I saw how much I paid in taxes.

This doesn’t make any sense.

+1. Makes no sense.

But wouldn't this still be the case with one job with a high income as well? Is it any different in taxes with two jobs that each pay $150k or one job with a $300k salary?

[Anonymous]

Everyone in the IT contracting world is doing this now. I hear of some working on 4+ fully remote full-time jobs at the same time.

[Anonymous]

I work 2 jobs, and feel the same way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone in the IT contracting world is doing this now. I hear of some working on 4+ fully remote full-time jobs at the same time.

do they get 4 pay checks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone in the IT contracting world is doing this now. I hear of some working on 4+ fully remote full-time jobs at the same time.

do they get 4 pay checks?

Yep. I know of folks with 4 full time salaries each about $150k or more totaling over $600k a year. They said that even with these 4 jobs they are still working less than 40 hours a week. These are all SWEs or developers.

[Anonymous]

What does it mean that your current employer doesn't want you to leave? They can't force you to stay. Either they increase your salary and benefits such that you want to stay and you turn down the new job, or you quit, even if that makes your boss unhappy.

[Anonymous]

A DCPS school principal got caught doing this. https://dcist.com/story/21/11/30/former-dc-assistant-principal-accused-of-holding-a-second-job/