How Remote Workers Are Secretly Juggling Multiple Jobs

With the pandemic’s turbocharged acceleration of remote work options, many employees have sought to capitalize on the lack of personal supervision by secretly working two (or more) full-time jobs at once. But while there’s more money to be made, the strategy brings with it significant tradeoffs, namely mental health.

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[business]

Would you take a second full-time job if you could get away with it? 💻

[callmeosho]

She said "employers can fire you for dishonesty"

...but they can also fire you for honesty, for financial reasons, because the sky was too blue or they just felt like it

[ihtfp]

Let's be real here. Employers don't exist to make someone's dreams come true, they exist to make their own dreams come true. If someone can handle working 2 jobs (well) all the power to them.

[shatexposure]

What they won't mention is that board members at a ton of these companies sit on the board of multiple companies.
Doubled working jobs is frowned upon if you're low. But if you're a C suit it's hard work.

[lvyte]

What’s hilarious is .. Some of us work 2-3 jobs at the one job we have 🤣🤣

[marktheshark]

Watching this on my phone while working from home right now... If I didn't have this YouTube addiction, I could probably maintain 2 jobs too

[mastersasori]

Two lessons to be learned here if you're choosing to work in two remote full-time jobs
-be skillful enough with your craft
-be skillful enough to manage your time juggling around work and family

[Andriykoblin]

Its funny how everyone is ok with their employee having a part time job, a side gig, going to school full time, being a mom or a dad, or serving on boards, or doing all of that at once... but having 2 full time jobs while providing results is where they draw the line.

[jmillward]

From the ResumeBuilder survey from which the 37% of remote workers work two full time jobs statistic is taken: "Eighty-four percent of respondents who have two full-time jobs say their second job is their own business, while 69% of people with a second part-time job are running their own company."

So 8 in 10 of those 37% aren't playing two companies against each other the way it sounds. Nor is one of the jobs a 'secret'. I feel like Bloomberg should have made this clear, because on the face of it, it sounds in the video like the 37% of people are being duplicitous. But the vast majority are not.

[levihalperin]

I like this. Instead of quitting your job, play the system and get the most out of your employer's. If they can exploit employees then employees should be able to find their own way to play the system.

[YoYo-gtiq]

I did this in 2015, 1 office job and 1 remote.

I put $10k away for my kids' college (grew and am still using that account), we went on vacation, had birthday parties, and I once accidentally double paid the mortgage, which took 5 months off the life of the loan.

[Mike]

Now do a video of companies lying about why they need to end remote work

[TRUCKERTV]

Omg, yes. I was in a zoom meeting with co workers and one of them forgot to mute her mic and answered a call from another company. Everyone went silent and laughed lol.

[moeball]

I know programmers who are doing this.

Writing code for 2 different companies. As long as your meetings don't overlap and your job requirements are getting your software packages submitted by deadlines, it goes fairly smoothly.

[Youneedkoolin]

Finally some workers are actually able to get ahead in this society

[smitdty]

The smartest thing I heard in this video about managing two jobs was taking junior roles. Management roles regardless of the pay always take more time and stress than the day alots. Rarely worth it for rank and file employees to take mid-level management jobs for incremental pay over those your managing. This would really skew employment data would it not? Clearly seems to benefit educated knowledge workers, particularly software/IT workers

[josh-edje]

The trick is to not look at it as the future of work but a plan to retire early.

[DenysAlmaral]

"Remote Workers" discovering what freelancers have been doing for decades 😎

[BnORailFan]

I worked a second job, only part-time, and got so burned out that I didn't do anything outside of work. The pay was great but I now value having less stress and more time off of work.

[KariFromYoutube]

For me, it’s about goal setting. No one should work two jobs forever but to get out of debt, save for a home, invest, etc it’s worth it!