lemm.ee

2 points

1 year ago

I mean, yes-ish? My friend has 5 and makes way more than any one job would ever be willing to pay.

More power to him. Is he burning bridges? Probably. Is he banking a ton of money? Yeah. Is anyone getting hurt? Not really, he gets his asks done and that’s that - I’m not about to feel bad for a megacorp grossing hundreds of millions to billions a year.

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phillaholic@lemm.ee

4 points

1 year ago

That smells like BS. No one can work 5 full time jobs and not be committing fraud somehow. Paying someone overseas to do the work, plagiarizing it, submitting the same work to more than 1 of them etc.

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1 point

1 year ago

Believe what you will, I work multiple myself and could easily pick up more. It’s easy in software engineering at large companies with disorganized practices. I even got “exceeds expectations” at one and a raise recently. I am doing all the work myself, no hiring out. They’re all in very different industries and use different tech platforms, so there is no real copying of work.

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phillaholic@lemm.ee

3 points

1 year ago

Ok, and you’ve never delayed a meeting or communications with 1 company because you were working on another?

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1 point

1 year ago

No, I wouldn’t feel right. Worst case is I just attend both simultaneously.

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phillaholic@lemm.ee

2 points

1 year ago

If you can do it and not impact anyone at any of those jobs you’re a wizard.

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1 point

1 year ago

I honestly think I just got lucky with the jobs. Low meetings, rarely overlap, largely autonomous, fully remote.

I could probably make as much or more working one single job at Big Tech and selling my soul, but there is something freeing in making a percentage of that much but spread out / diversified.

If I ever get laid off at one, I probably have others. If an acquisition or reorg happens and I become redundant at one, at least I have the others. Is this whole situation ideal for all? Probably not, but there is a bit of mental comfort and freedom it gives me that I really can’t put a price on.

I love the work I do and the people I work with, I’ll put in a 20+ hour day if I have to, to make sure I hold up my end of the deal - but I’m lucky and I really haven’t had to (yet).

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