Any y'all thought about getting a second remote job?

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Man, this hits close to home. And it's exactly what

Mar 3, 2022, 6:38 AM

I'm doing right now. Your numbers even sound the same as mine when I got promoted last year. Went from a senior role to a "management" role and got a VERY small bump for the pleasure of overseeing the largest team in the department.

I'm putting in the usual 45-50 hours at my day job. But I'm double-dipping for sure. If I get a free minute in the day, best believe that 8-15 of those hours are going towards billable contract work for a couple of consulting clients I have on the side.

The benefit is two fold. 1) It forces me to prioritize day job tasks for "the man" so that I'm only focusing on business-critical activities and not all the minutiae that comes from a corporate environment (i.e. I don't do impromptu meetings/calls (no, I do not "have a minute", as my day is meticulously planned), I'm not doing other peoples jobs, I don't try to micromanage when I get bored). I focus only what's needed to produce revenue. 2) I get extra income doing stuff I like without having to work late nights.

I gets pretty awkward when I share my screen and I have a random proposal, strategy or business architecture document pulled up for a client. But what are they gonna do, LOL. I'm replaceable --- but my company is RISK AVERSE in all regards, specifically in regards to terminating employees who have scored 5/5 on their past 3 performance reviews. Hard to make a case against me unless I spit in the CEOs face or something.

Bless, they never even raised any concerns when I was showing up drunk every day.

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I was managing a team of 15-20 inside sales reps and we all worked from home. I'd get started early in the morning to get those folks lined up and ready to go, say around 6am. Had a lot of free time the rest of the day unless I needed to address an issue, etc. Then a friend told me about a "business development" remote job that was west coast only. So around noon I started working that job too. And you can make calls to Calif until 8pm (5pm PST).

I was still available of course if any of my reps needed help with something. But basically, both companies were getting their 8 hours. Sometimes the west coast job dragged into 9pm. So it was a long azzz day... maybe 15-16 hours. Man, I was making bank working two jobs... but I was wore slap out at the end of the day. Couldn't do that forever. I was kinda glad when the west coast job ended.

It’s hard to do my job remotely cause I’d need a really long turd shovel.

I’ve got 3

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Man, this hits close to home. And it's exactly what

business architecture?

and for clarification, no it's not

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Gotta make sure there is no conflict of interest, but

contractors do it all the time

Say one has a lot of free time in front of a computer

get a government job?

I double dipped for 2 years, this was around 2003-2004.....

I have, just so I can buy a house.

yes, you can only pull this off if working from home.....

If I could find something that was mostly mindless

Yep, but insurance/benefits for a family of 4 is a killer

yep... my double dip situation I described above was a full

I am getting ready to retire from my 2nd job

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