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> what’s the problem? Contractual problems, context-switching problems, conflict of interest problems, and from experience consulting, time problems since your
by mdorazio 5y ago
> what’s the problem?
Contractual problems, context-switching problems, conflict of interest problems, and from experience consulting, time problems since your two companies are very likely to want to have meetings at the same time. If you're an independent contributor at both companies and expectations are low you might be able to pull it off, but if you're a manager forget about it.
- ghaff 5y agoIf you assume no inherent contractual/contract of interest problems... (Which isn't always necessarily a terrible assumption. Some companies are fine with a little side freelance/consulting work on your "own" time so long as it's not competitive.) You still need a lot of conditions if you're not going to be getting into a lot of elaborate subterfuge and ridiculous amounts of work. A few off the top of my head. If you're a full-time employee, it's a lot more imaginable if you have a contract gig somewhere else rather than a full-time job which almost no employer is going to be OK with. You need a relatively light workload in that first job as an individual contributor. You can't have a lot of meetings, travel, and a fair bit of flexibility generally. You can't really be known in the industry at large. If you can land a contractor job that takes you another 20 hours or so with someone non-competitive which also is largely independent work? And you keep that job pretty quiet. Maybe. But that's imposing a lot of conditions and probably isn't really sustainable for any length of time. It's somewhat interesting as a thought exercise but seems pretty impractical outside of some narrow cases. And maybe that person is just better off consulting which puts everything above-board.