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Personally I would never land multiple jobs at the same time because I have strong ethics. My employee pays me for creating value, and that is a daily mantra yo

Personally I would never land multiple jobs at the same time because I have strong ethics. My employee pays me for creating value, and that is a daily mantra you should repeat yourself everyday, especially if you’re remote. Overemployment would just lead to a mediocre work for every employee you have. I’ve been remote months before the pandemic and the most difficult thing is to keep focus, not the required focus on the assigned task, but on the big picture, on the direction and the main goals the company wants to accomplish, how you can help accomplish them and push more value than requested. That’s how you get paid well, how you build a long relationship made of trust, the kind of trust that raise your pay every year without asking. Let’s be honest overemployment is just another word for describing low effort programming, the production of yet another can of digital trash, and I just wish companies go back to the (un?)balanced ratio of remote/in person job like it was before the pandemic

quickthrower2 4y ago
Companies broadly will glass ceiling pay for employees who don’t go into higher management roles (exceptions like acquihires exist). So yeah keep adding value but they won’t pay a million a year as a developer. Even if you came up with ideas and executed them and made them millions. It is a commodity market in general. In this sense you get paid well but they want you to think how to make the shareholders rich (which might be the employee if their lucky but that shareholding or option is rarely contingent on performance but on staying employed until vesting at most) On the other hand employment is cushy in that you just get paid in less than 30 days and don’t need to think about a bunch of business stuff like marketing or contract negotiations so hence why it is popular. Should companies be allowed to have other customers? Should they reduce their prices to cover costs to get to a standardized “market rate” profit for a company. I guess like a co-op.
mym1990 4y ago
Wow you’re like the definition of a corporate drone haha. The OP here definitely paints a pretty bleak picture from the standpoint of the employer, but the general area of working side gigs is pretty grey. I am a full time dev and took on a pretty limited position as a part time tennis coach at a high school. Am I putting out garbage output for my company?
- benjaminwootton 4y ago
  Most people sign a contract stating that they are selling 40 hours per week. Selling those same hours to someone else is fraud. If you are selling hours outside of those 40 then go nuts, though some people also freely sign that right away too. I don’t think respecting that makes anyone a corporate drone. It makes them honest.
  - mym1990 4y ago
    You must have missed the part about waking up every morning chanting your companies mission statement and going above and beyond to help the company achieve dominance.
  - bruce343434 4y ago
    So booking overcapacity is legal if you’re a hosting provider but not if you’re a tech worker?
tn890 4y ago
- dang 4y ago
  Personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't post like this again. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it.

quickthrower2 4y ago

Companies broadly will glass ceiling pay for employees who don’t go into higher management roles (exceptions like acquihires exist). So yeah keep adding value but they won’t pay a million a year as a developer. Even if you came up with ideas and executed them and made them millions. It is a commodity market in general. In this sense you get paid well but they want you to think how to make the shareholders rich (which might be the employee if their lucky but that shareholding or option is rarely contingent on performance but on staying employed until vesting at most) On the other hand employment is cushy in that you just get paid in less than 30 days and don’t need to think about a bunch of business stuff like marketing or contract negotiations so hence why it is popular. Should companies be allowed to have other customers? Should they reduce their prices to cover costs to get to a standardized “market rate” profit for a company. I guess like a co-op.

mym1990 4y ago

Wow you’re like the definition of a corporate drone haha. The OP here definitely paints a pretty bleak picture from the standpoint of the employer, but the general area of working side gigs is pretty grey. I am a full time dev and took on a pretty limited position as a part time tennis coach at a high school. Am I putting out garbage output for my company?

benjaminwootton 4y ago
Most people sign a contract stating that they are selling 40 hours per week. Selling those same hours to someone else is fraud. If you are selling hours outside of those 40 then go nuts, though some people also freely sign that right away too. I don’t think respecting that makes anyone a corporate drone. It makes them honest.
- mym1990 4y ago
  You must have missed the part about waking up every morning chanting your companies mission statement and going above and beyond to help the company achieve dominance.
- bruce343434 4y ago
  So booking overcapacity is legal if you’re a hosting provider but not if you’re a tech worker?

tn890 4y ago

dang 4y ago
Personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't post like this again. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it.