Working two fulltime jobs 100% remotely. Anyone done/doing this?

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Anonymous wrote:Meaningful long-term career advancement is what I'd worry about. If you are fine being mid-level and want to maximize current income, it isn't a terrible idea to work 2 jobs if you can do both fairly well.

Those that do it don't care about career advancement. In fact, a career advancement with more responsibilities is the last thing they want.

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Anonymous wrote:Meaningful long-term career advancement is what I'd worry about. If you are fine being mid-level and want to maximize current income, it isn't a terrible idea to work 2 jobs if you can do both fairly well.

Except I have two really good jobs. One job is like a FAANG type job as Head of Dept. I interviewed last week for a 400k and a 280k job. If I land one will add the J3. If I get both will add both. There are folks in IT with up to 10 jobs.

Sorry you Gen X and Boomer folks are fat and lazy and think pickle ball and golf is cool

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My CEO has two full time jobs. Elan Musk has three full time jobs. Heck Steve Harvey has like 5 Full time jobs

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry not believing this thread at all. If you have a real job making at decent amount, no one has the time to do two ft jobs around here.

Maybe your job is demanding and you have no time to do anything else. I see many low performers at my job that I wonder what they are even doing here.
I wonder how they still have a job. This is in person, not remote. I'm sure if we were remote, they could easily have time for one or two other jobs.

And these people are whining about their situation instead of moving to a more reasonable job. Working 100% for 9-10 hours is for boomers who brag about their work related stress injuries and heart disease. Here in the present, you can do a good job in 2 concurrent ft jobs and no one cares.

Do you all forget how in the office before covid y'all were spending 2 hours walking to coffee store, 1.5 hrs at Qdoba, 2 hrs meeting with your boss and coworkers every day? You just monetize those pointless hours with a second job.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry not believing this thread at all. If you have a real job making at decent amount, no one has the time to do two ft jobs around here.

Maybe your job is demanding and you have no time to do anything else. I see many low performers at my job that I wonder what they are even doing here.
I wonder how they still have a job. This is in person, not remote. I'm sure if we were remote, they could easily have time for one or two other jobs.

And these people are whining about their situation instead of moving to a more reasonable job. Working 100% for 9-10 hours is for boomers who brag about their work related stress injuries and heart disease. Here in the present, you can do a good job in 2 concurrent ft jobs and no one cares.

Do you all forget how in the office before covid y'all were spending 2 hours walking to coffee store, 1.5 hrs at Qdoba, 2 hrs meeting with your boss and coworkers every day? You just monetize those pointless hours with a second job.

You speaking our shared truth.

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This thread is a bunch of sock-puppeting BS.

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Anonymous wrote:Meaningful long-term career advancement is what I'd worry about. If you are fine being mid-level and want to maximize current income, it isn't a terrible idea to work 2 jobs if you can do both fairly well.

Except I have two really good jobs. One job is like a FAANG type job as Head of Dept. I interviewed last week for a 400k and a 280k job. If I land one will add the J3. If I get both will add both. There are folks in IT with up to 10 jobs.

Sorry you Gen X and Boomer folks are fat and lazy and think pickle ball and golf is cool

You'd still be better off doing amazingly well at one (especially if you are at an L6+ or even L5+ level at a FAANG) and getting yourself a senior exec position. You are talking about making very good money but if you really have high potential, one great job will beat those 2.

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No wonder I can’t compete in the housing market. We only have three jobs between the two of us.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry not believing this thread at all. If you have a real job making at decent amount, no one has the time to do two ft jobs around here.

I don’t make huge bucks but I could easily do a second job. This thread has me thinking about quiet quitting my current job while trying another on for size.

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This will come out in background investigations.

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Anonymous wrote:This will come out in background investigations.

And nothing will happen. I've worked multiple IT jobs before and when I applied for new jobs, it is not an issue with employers

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry not believing this thread at all. If you have a real job making at decent amount, no one has the time to do two ft jobs around here.

I don’t make huge bucks but I could easily do a second job. This thread has me thinking about quiet quitting my current job while trying another on for size.

If you work in technology operations, you can do multiple jobs because it is shift work.  I worked in IT operations for five years.  My first job began from 6am to 2:30pm and my second job started from 3pm until 11:30pm.  The jobs are for two different companies.  I've been working remote for the past five years.  I am making very good money with the first job and excellent money with the second job, I get paid 15% extra for working the second shift. It works out well for me.  

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I think many of you are confusing the word job with the word career.

Lawyer, doctor, c-suites, finance... those are careers where it would be hard to hold multiple jobs at once. Probably many government jobs, too.

No disrespect to anyone who does the below, but the following are jobs... HR, a lot of low level analyst positions, AP/AR, medical billing, admin work, data entry.

Can you have a career as an admin assistant? Sure can. Can you have multiple jobs at the same time as an admin assistant and still perform at both? Sure can.

I'm one of those people who got a pretty useless degree in college. I studied what I liked, not what would help me be employable. When I graduated, I started my job hunt with searches for "entry level" positions. From 22-26 I worked in HR, accounting in both AR & AP, marketing, data entry, receptionist, sales, a buyer, and operations. I tried out a bunch of jobs to see what field I really liked. My job is just that, a job. It's pretty easy overall and I do sometimes work a second job while doing my first. I offer my services as an editor and will do that during my work day when I'm slow.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course this isn't allowed. Wait until they audit you and you have to pay back your salary. This is a reason why WFH doesn't work and everyone is back in the office

Who is this "they"? There's no such thing as employer audit. I'm a fed and a lot of my coworkers have 2nd jobs but in unrelated fields (real estate, clothes making, etsy stores, couple counseling, sports coaching, tutoring, bartending etc.). As long as you don't work the same hours and there is no conflict of interest, go for it.

Same hours is a myth. Exempt employees don’t do time cards.

Yes they do in some fields. Namely ones that care about billable hours.

Sucks that you went to law school. Talent in the tech sector absolutely getting paid from 2 jobs right now. Rarely are our hours defined and current tech sector philosophies allow for people to be unavailable at random times for "creativity" or whatever. There is technically nothing wrong with working 2 jobs at the same time when both only expect you to put in 40 hours.

I suppose if you're a worker bee, that's fine. But many higher level jobs, particularly "creative" ones, include agreements regarding ownership of materials. If you've executed two of them, you are putting yourself in peril.

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Anonymous wrote:This will come out in background investigations.

Honest question - how? Sure, if you’re going for a security clearance or government job you are legally required to list all jobs in a relevant time period.

But a private company background check….how would they know? They will go off whatever is on your resume.

I’m more and more convinced that keeping a verbose LinkedIn profile is a terrible idea.