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There's a whole subreddit for people working multiple jobs remotely: https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ I tried to c

by Kye 4y ago

There's a whole subreddit for people working multiple jobs remotely: https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ I tried to check the overlap with /r/churning but it looks like overemployed isn't in the database. https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/overemployed https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/overemplo... edit: the concept has made appearances on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29666867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29666867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29633083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29633083

redanddead 4y ago
would you ever do that?
- Kye 4y ago
  I don't, but I wouldn't judge someone for it unless they were violating a legally enforceable contract. People work multiple in-person jobs all the time to survive. Nothing in my mind is different just because some people do it with remote jobs.
  - chii 4y ago
    > people work multiple in-person jobs all the time to survive. but the difference here is the concurrency. In-person jobs require the person, so you cannot do two at the same time. But a remote job, where the employer assumes you have their job at full attention, might be short-changed if you were to work two remote jobs at the same time. That is, of course, unless you work remote for two employers, in two different time zones (so basically the same as the two in-person jobs).
    - Kye 4y ago
      I don't see the issue as long as they get the work done right. If they don't and aren't fired, the company has bigger issues than people working multiple jobs. If they do the work well, then practicing arbitrage between the employer's expectations and the realistic time requirements with automation is just doing what the employer does from the other direction. I'm sure the employer has used technology and outsourcing to get rid of at least as many jobs as multi-jobbing employees take using the same technology. Not everyone just accepts the promise of automation to free us from tedium is lost to ever-growing corporate balance sheets.
    - randomdata 4y ago
      I have done the concurrent remote job thing for 15 years now. I'm open about it and nobody seems to really care. I expect they would prefer my full attention, but they also know I have another job right there, so they're pressured to work with my needs so long as they want to benefit from the value I provide in kind.
      - redanddead 4y ago
        If you could do it all over again but today, how would you do it? I may just act on it

by Kye 4y ago

redanddead 4y ago

would you ever do that?

Kye 4y ago
I don't, but I wouldn't judge someone for it unless they were violating a legally enforceable contract. People work multiple in-person jobs all the time to survive. Nothing in my mind is different just because some people do it with remote jobs.
- chii 4y ago
  > people work multiple in-person jobs all the time to survive. but the difference here is the concurrency. In-person jobs require the person, so you cannot do two at the same time. But a remote job, where the employer assumes you have their job at full attention, might be short-changed if you were to work two remote jobs at the same time. That is, of course, unless you work remote for two employers, in two different time zones (so basically the same as the two in-person jobs).
  - Kye 4y ago
    I don't see the issue as long as they get the work done right. If they don't and aren't fired, the company has bigger issues than people working multiple jobs. If they do the work well, then practicing arbitrage between the employer's expectations and the realistic time requirements with automation is just doing what the employer does from the other direction. I'm sure the employer has used technology and outsourcing to get rid of at least as many jobs as multi-jobbing employees take using the same technology. Not everyone just accepts the promise of automation to free us from tedium is lost to ever-growing corporate balance sheets.
  - randomdata 4y ago
    I have done the concurrent remote job thing for 15 years now. I'm open about it and nobody seems to really care. I expect they would prefer my full attention, but they also know I have another job right there, so they're pressured to work with my needs so long as they want to benefit from the value I provide in kind.
    - redanddead 4y ago
      If you could do it all over again but today, how would you do it? I may just act on it