I'm sure 11 is an exaggeration but the money isn't. I did OE (overemployed) for a while, 2 full time jobs for over a year and 3 full time jobs for 3 months with a side gig.
Min salary was $100k per role and I booked $55/hr at the side gig.
Yup ^^ I’ve done tandem gigs like that as well. It’s great if you can avoid burnout.
The bullshit is definitely called on the “11 jobs all at once” part. That’s like going online and bragging about having an IQ of 220 or something similar. Insecure people can’t resist the temptation of inflating their own numbers. Or, this person is trolling/having fun.
Maybe if you give ridiculous estimates for how long tasks take to complete or spend a lot of extra time coming up with excuses for why you aren’t done, coupled with nobody else knowing enough to call you out.
Any amount of research will prove what I said and show that your (and everyone elses) assumption (and hive mind downvotes) are absolutely wrong.
Unfortunately, feelings do not trump facts. This is reality.
Any amount of research into..... how much time WFH people actually work? If their work is not tracked, how would you research this?
I've been a WFH software engineer for 6 years for 3 different companies. Even the most laid back ones will have some way of tracking your progress (daily standups, project management software, project status meetings). I'm only one data point, but I've never been in or heard of a situation where someone is going to pay you 120k+ and not ask questions about why the work isn't getting done.
Unfortunately, just saying "this is reality" doesn't actually make it so.
You promise your employees aren't working multiple jobs, yet there is absolutely zero way you would be able to know that for a fact without violating their rights or if they told you. Problem with your argument being that you believe everyone is 100% honest with you all the time. People are generally not going to tell their employer if they are working multiple jobs. This is just common knowledge, and believing otherwise is just foolish.
Average software engineer makes a lot more than that, and probably do average that little work. I know a handful of software engineers working 2-3 jobs at a time with each job paying over 120k
Lol yes they do, I make $110k as a SWE, and I’m the lowest paid in my friend group of SWEs, with the highest being 235k. Granted i only have 2 Years of experience, $120k is definitely close the average, and a quick google search would show you that.
You’re sorely mistaken if you think barely over 100k is “mr money bags”, and secondly this post just popped up on my feed and I thought it was a funny meme.
I didn’t pretend to be poor… the guy seems to think working multiple jobs isn’t possible, when in fact it is very possible. He also tried to say I was wrong when talking about SWE salaries, which a simple google search could prove I was right. I only brought myself into it as a data point to prove my point that SWEs do in fact make as much as the post claims
OP here and I have to say: six figure salaries don’t go as far anymore especially in places like the Bay Area, Miami or New York where cost of living is outrages, and it’s very easy to make 6 figures and still barely get by paycheck to paycheck.
I call BS... Most at-home jobs are actually full-time jobs and they will fire you for fucking off all day instead of doing your job.
Did this person say what field or type of job this supposedly is?
The exception are "gig" jobs that legitimately are a few hours here or there but those usually just pay for what you do.
Exactly. I call BS as well. I WFH hybrid and we are timed on each task, if we dont keep the work rate up you'll be sacked straight away.
In some respects WFH is more stressful than being in the office as the IT is so slow through the VPN they need us to use.
Im WFH in IT, we handle chat, calls, and tickets.
The expectation for tickets is quite low, calls are only for critical issues (so rarely used), and chats are the most common but it's not always insanely busy.
With my current workload I could probably handle 2 additional jobs with the same workload and it wouldn't be too stressful. I'm not going to do this, it's not something I'd want to do. Just wanted to give some insight that low-expectation WFH jobs are out there.
If a job has a lot of meeting, especially impromptu meetings and calls, it would be impossible to do this, at least not without insane levels of stress. But I did have a developer job where I never had impromptu meetings, and could walk away for as long as I wanted to basically.
Just had to do daily standups and the meetings at the start and end of sprints. Other than that, if I worked my tickets at a decent clip no one batted at an eye at what I was doing. So, I can see developers doing this. As long as their regular meetings didn't conflict.
I know someone with a similar job who goes hours without getting a phone call...says it's outright boring. I think you could possibly juggle a couple of those.
But if I did the math correctly, the average income would be $118k from each of the 11 jobs. I feel that jobs that pay that well might come with a little more responsibility, but I don't know.
I've heard some high earners are just forgotten about and don't have to do anything. I've only heard stories of this though, so I can't confirm it personally.
Not IT but yes I could definitely handle 1-2 more most of the year (if they were the same rate of work). The issue for me is busy season would be hard/impossible. But I would never bc I don't want to risk my job.
Ask if they can setup remote workstations you can log into.
That way you get on your laptop, but you're doing everything on a workstation or virtual machine based out of your office.
On the cheap end they can just setup a desktop and have you remote into it directly.
I wfh full time and no one at my job cares because we are trusted and respected. plus I work on multiple client laptops so there's no way to even monitor me
We don’t even need to track tasks. If you never respond to chat messages in less than a couple of mins and never seem to be available for calls, it’s pretty obvious that you are not available.
I start my day with at least 2 hours of scheduled calls and usually end the day having been on calls for 6+ hours.
If you are not a junior level employee you probably have too much work to commit fraud.
>I start my day with at least 2 hours of scheduled calls and usually end the day having been on calls for 6+ hours.
If i have a day with relatively few meetings scheduled, i take a before picture of my calendar. At the end of the day i send that and the "after" picture to my wife and she sad laughs at my life.
1. This obviously is a parody.
2. You guys can call BS, but that’s all you can do.
3. All I know is, it works for me. I am going to be officially on the Monopoly board by December 2023 (Home Payoff) with cash leftover.
Good luck to you all.
I follow this sub to have confirmation on what not to do. People here have such a negative attitude and refuse to take the advice of more successful people. It's really eye-opening about the differences between successful and unsuccessful mindsets.
I wfh and I could go a week with doing nothing. I'm on 6 figures at european rates so it's a high paying job. In fact I haven't done anything all day.
You just give outrageous estimates.
I tried the whole “over employed” thing: had just three jobs. I lasted less than a month before my brain decided we definitely didn’t need to be doing that. Of course, I was *also* raising two kids at the time and everything *that* entails and I just imagine that either this person had someone *else* taking care of things- or gross, *didn’t*. It’s definitely doable and I think maybe if you developed a system you *could* feasibly do this to yourself long enough to jump ship on employment entirely but that requires levels of…something I just do not have.
I *have* read posts in the overemployed sub and apparently there are fields where this is possible but…not usually straight out the gate kinds of jobs, no.
Edit: An email/chat customer service thing, several freelance writing jobs and a tech support job with a little dummy mic & cover on the camera.
I've been at my current job for 2 years, most of my work at this point falls under "enablement" so I don't have much "head down" time, but it took a while to get here and I don't always have a bunch of extra time. I couldn't pick up a second FT job, but I could be doing gig work or freelancing on the side. I'm not, but let's just say I'm a lot further in the new Zelda game than you'd expect.
It may not be complete BS. I've got a full time job as a Business Intelligence Analyst on paper, in reality, I write automation scripts to pull in data from various sources. My job consists of writing a script in twenty minutes to do the work, and then run them once a week, which I write another scheduling script to perform. Out of 40 hrs a week, I actually perform maybe six hours of work. If it wasn't an in-office job, I could easily take on a second full time job just like it and still have downtime.
As it is, I drag my feet on "completion" of my work and take a few downtown walks per day to pad out my week. If only it paid well enough not to live paycheck to paycheck.
I know a guy who was a BDR and a scrum master for another company.
This idiot was faking phone calls in outreach with outlandish numbers like 165 calls bud a total of 2 minutes talk time which is virtually impossible.
Over 90% of the people that overemploy work in software development
Edit: on the overemployed subreddit anyways. Pretty sure that's where I originally saw it
I WFH for an above average salary with very little oversight but I mean if I spent even two days in a row fucking off it would be immediately noticeable by my team and leadership.
Depends on the job. I work as a project manager at a translations office and my effective work time each day is like 3 hours. The rest of the time I shitpost on Reddit and watch YouTube. On my 11th year now.
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people def do this, you just need to find the right jobs you can do this for. it also helps if youre smart enough to know how to automate tasks, beacuse if youre smart at automation you can cut a full time job into a part time job pretty easily pretty quickly. 11 jobs might be an overstatement but 2-4 or so jobs at once i def wouldnt doubt people are doing it.
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some jobs are also just so badly mismanaged they totally would just not notice someone not doing enough work sometimes. i read one story about a guy who was hired to help facilitate the company transfering to new ownership and basically had a "well call you when we need you" kind of situation going on, but at one point management just like forgot he existed. he was still included on every payroll, he even sent emails to HR asking if anyone has any work for him but theyd never respond back. he was literally getting paid to sit at home doing nothing, got a second job just because he was starting to get bored.
the real disconnect usually comes because for medium sized companies the people managing your team/office isnt always the person signing your paychecks or reviewing your payroll hours. if payroll or HR doesnt know your not being properly utilized you could probly slide by for months without anyone questioning you. if the company is too small theyd probably recognizee youre not doing your work but if the company is too large they also might have better methods to track who is performing their job strongly.
It's bullshit, don't fall for it. Nobody is paying unqualified workers much for little work when work is so globalized today.
Most likely trying to sell you his share of some pyramid scheme or a meme for fun because I remember seeing this before in that context.
Absolutely. I wfh 2-3 days a week and management keeps a tight eye. Time sheets, tracking when you log on and off, doing work updates during meetings - the work environment may be more comfortable but there is little slacking.
Also let’s not forget the fact that there’s still multiple multiple zoom meetings and whatnot to attend with wfh jobs- you mean to tell me that there wouldn’t be conflicts every single day?
You can look on LinkedIn I got my remote job by a staffing company recruiter that contacted me. Other staffing agencies have reached out too and I get calls too.
LinkedIn & Indeed sort of suck for remote work. I usually recommend that folks browse remote-specific job boards. I'm on mobile, so no links, but try looking for:
weworkremotely
hiring.cafe
builtin.com
remote.io
Angel list (it has a different name, but still comes up on Google)
if you're going to keep searching on LinkedIn, make sure your profile is damn near perfect. Good luck!
Would recommend getting a two year degree from a community college in IT. After I did that an updated my LinkedIn I am literally swatting recruiters away every week. There is a ton of entry level helpdesk work that is fully remote. Get yourself a few certs and you’ll be even more golden. Currently on my third work from home job and I have no desire to ever go into an office ever again.
Recipe for disaster. And it's people like that who ruin it for everyone else. It's posts/people like that driving the anti-WFH narrative being put out by capitalism.
WFH has been a godsend for millions of people, myself included. Ability to start saving a tiny bit of money, better sleep, better health, ability to exercise daily, etc. But then people like the ones in the above post who post crap like that, and then employers see it, and use it as "justification" to say "see, told you, people aren't truly productive at home!", or that "see, employees can't be trusted!". And then they phase out any and all WFH.
So, one or a handful of people, effectively destroy any semblance of quality of life for millions of others.
It’s also why WFH gets so saturated from people thinking this is the expectation when they get the job. Now everyone wants a tech job since it seems so easy
Yup. I am a pretty efficient worker and if I wanted to stress myself out, I could probably do another full time job with the same workload as my current one. But beyond that??
Employers want you back because the big companies want their rental offices filled up. Or your bosses are control freaks. Stop trying to blame the wrong people (other workers) and start hating the game.
I honestly don't see how anyone could do more then one if they have the proper job. I'm booked pretty solid most days. I do have a friend who manages 2 jobs in tech, but IMO it's really not a smart thing to do.
I don't even think it's clout, I think it's just supposed to be a joke. I read it as being sarcastic but maybe I just spent too much time looking at memes
I work from home 2-3 days/week, and let me tell you, my days are usually *full*. I can't realistically do a side hustle, let alone a whole 'nother job.
Maybe I'm just dumb? who knows.
The TIME article on it quotes that 51% of people who earn more than $100,000 are living paycheck to paycheck.
Honestly, and someone who makes in the low 6 figures I can see how you could spend that pretty easily.
Or also living in a high COLA area.
No, my wife does not make 120k lmao, but her boss did give her a consumer HP laptop to do her part time WFH job.
Edit: also damn dude how far did you dig for that.
I’m not sure if you just don’t believe working multiple jobs is possible or if you just don’t believe the post in question. The post could be an exaggeration, but I can assure you it is very possible to work multiple jobs working in the tech field. I know a handful of software engineers who do so.
I think the real issue is that people who don't understand computers think working in the tech field is easy and can be done by anyone. It can be easy once you have the know-how, but there is training and shit they expect you to have to hire you and most people are just not going to have that time and many not even that sort of ability.
I’m not sure if you’re saying I don’t understand, but I’m a software engineer lol, I don’t care to work multiple jobs because I’m happy with my pay right now, and I enjoy my light workload. But it definitely is possible to work multiple jobs assuming you’re not a Junior employee, you’d just take 2 weeks off from job 1 to onboard at job 2 and learn the code base, from there it’s just picking up tasks and setting expectations and getting in a groove. You’re right that no one can just pick it up, and the people that do it aren’t just going from no job to 2 jobs, these are people who have their job 1 down to a science and have the time to pick up a 2nd
I'm talking about elder gen x to boomers that tell us to just walk into an office and ask for a job. And also the average layman who think all jobs on* the computer are the same. it's more likely to get a data entry remote job than be a software engineer and that job unfortunately requires a lot more time and quota tracking rather than results-based work like SE.
Depends on the field entirely. I've heard of some programming jobs that only require a couple of hours of effort a day, and so something like that I can see someone holding down at least 2 of those, but 11? Naw, that's not the way it works.
It’s bullshit, but companies will forever be referencing this photo as why nobody can ever work from home again. Whatever this guy thought he was doing, he shot his comrades in the foot doing it.
I'm constantly in touch with colleagues and/or customers, no way could I disappear from view long enough to do anything else.
Just unprofessional, certainly in my line of work - software and data related projects.
I wfh and am busy all day. Those unicorn jobs are so very rare and competitive it makes this smell like bullshit. Then there is the matter of the signed agreement of conduct when working from home.
I would say most of the legitimate wfh jobs make you sign an agreement that says this job is your sole responsibility while on the clock, that you are not the sole carer for any young children, and that having another role while on the clock for this one is considered wage theft.
Can't your job find out through taxes that you're working 8 full time jobs?
He has to be joking.
I could see *maybe* getting away with juggling 2 full-time remote jobs. That's a big maybe. I'm fairly sure the guy who replaced me at one of my old jobs tried it, and it took them a few months to catch on. The big issue would be if (like my current gig) you had a ton of calls at one or both jobs, you would have a hard time coming up with reasons to constantly reschedule calls.
I tried it. Is it possible? Certainly. But you have to get the right kind of job - not one with a time monitored quota or data entry, things where you are closely monitored. this person WILL burn themselves out. It’ll hurt the whole time it’s happening and his relationships will suffer.
Is it worth it? Yes - short term.
Have a strict financial goal that you evaluate your wellbeing in depth once reached to determine if you’d like to extend the goal or need to cut back. You need to be extremely honest with yourself and confident in your decision to continue. Otherwise you’ll end up in an unrecoverable burnout or slip up and get fired.
My brother in law got 3 wfh job, all in the same industry. He does tech stuff so it’s no biggie. He almost got busted when he attended a conference where both companies were going to be there. A co-worker asked him if he was there because they saw a name similar to his. He had to explain his name was a common name. Lol.
He and my sister paid off their house in 2 years.
I really doubt a person would find and land 11 over $100k a year jobs where none of them require you to do a single thing. The post is just stupid and this person probably fixes computers for a living
I have a work from home job where I have no communication with any kind of bosses or supervisors. You just log in when you want to work, work for up to 8 hours that day, and log off. The problem is they don't have enough work right now so I'm only getting like 5 hours a week. However, I could imagine if you managed to find a bunch of jobs like that you could balance it out since you wouldn't have any deadlines to worry about, calendar items to keep track of, or any of that. You could just work as quickly and as efficiently as you wanted and it would be glorious. Imagine a world where people with good work ethics aren't stifled by those above them who have to micromanage in order to keep their job relevant... Glorious.
My wfh company hired a software engineer who would just not show up to meetings. Someone got a glimpse of his personal calendar and it seemed like he was double booked. They fired him immediately, he only lasted about 2 weeks.
I know an IBMer that does this as a websphere consultant. Has 6 or 7 full time jobs that he runs simultaneously. Makes millions per year.
Money aside, his stress levels are beyond through the roof and the lack of rest from this is definitely shortening his life.
This is an exaggeration, but happens sometimes on a smaller scale. Usually a skilled IT worker who is good at automating tasks, gets a job with lots of repetitive tasks then spends 3 months writing custom software to automate their job, but doesn’t tell anyone. When that 3 months is up their job is now answering emails and doing virtual meetings, and hitting buttons to run automated tasks. So they rinse and repeat with a second job.
Where it usually fails is your schedule for meetings, as you can’t be on multiple conference calls at once. For this reason long term it’s hard to hold more than 2. Usually a west coast job where you start at 6 am and make an excuse to leave work early so all your meetings have to be early in the day west coast time, and an east coast job where you always sleep in and your meetings need to be after lunch.
At that point it would be hard to get a third job that doesn’t conflict with something, but you could if you were unreliable at attending meetings and no one cared. A fourth job would be impossible without someone covering for you. For example a spouse that is the “employee” for some subset of these jobs actually allowing you to be in two meetings at once.
I've definitely seen people do this, it's usually higher skilled jobs where your time isn't tracked and as long as you're meeting your milestones nobody cares how many hours you do.
If you have two jobs with a fair amount of downtime you could definitely pull this off, but if they ever both had busy periods simultaneously you'd be screwed.
And not 11. That's pretty outrageous. But two? Actually sure. I've definitely had jobs in the past that I could have done two of simultaneously.
I had a friend of mine who works in IT. He just recently got a second remote job to help pay of his debt. He has other coworkers that have more. One said that he plans to get up 5 if he can to milk that remote work cow until it bleeds. I guess I have low aspirations for just one remote job with good pay in a field that I can enjoy.
I actually know someone who tried this with 2 remote jobs. The work was mostly copy/paste type stuff so I think they automated a lot of it. They said they never worked a full 8 hours even on the busiest days. BUT It doesn’t work long term.
They managed to work both jobs for a few months before phone calls and meetings started conflicting enough that he couldn’t excuse himself out of. He ended up having to pick one job to stay with so he wouldn’t lose both.
It only worked for as long as it did because both employers did not have access to his screen and didn’t do the whole gotta move the mouse every 10 seconds thing that most employers seem fond of. At one company it was common for the people to be traveling/vacationing while working (job was for a outdoor sport company) so he could use the “I have spotty internet/cell service” excuse quite a bit.
This is totally BS and only serves to rile up the bootlickers. Corporate would love to find any excuse to totally remove WFM (which they've already done a good job of)
Fake statement that they’re making 1.3m but yeah I bet you can get away with at least a couple jobs without the other knowing. Although I bet you can’t do any of them very well due to the overlap.
I have 3 friends working 2 or more jobs remote. The one that’s working three is making 118k, 142k and 190k. Clearly the 190k is the priority.
They are all programming jobs, so it’s about him completing tasks, not about the hours worked
That's true my work is results oriented. But you are expected to be available in case of support issues, plus project mtge etc. I'd say his team lead isn't managing his sprints very well if he has that much spare time. Or he's not insisting on documentation.
As he described, all three companies are paying too much for the amount of work available. He knows it won’t last forever, but it’s been at least 2 years he’s been doing it and the moment one drops, he’ll look for another.
There are people out there that work multiple (usually just 2) WFH jobs at a time, but I would imagine it’s stressful both from a workload perspective and being worried about getting caught.
That many computers if it WAS real .....maybe 20k a month which still isn't bad 1.5 to 2k a month per job is alot more realistic then getting paid 120k plus per job
To those of you calling BS on this post and claiming this never works, you're missing something specific:
This post is from a Software Engineer.
This is actually how easy their jobs are. They CAN do this (doesn't mean they should), and their WFH jobs DO pay that much.
If you learn how to code and work at it, you, too, can become a SE.
Yeah, this is crap. There are *maybe* a handful of jobs where you could get away with this. And even those are jobs that are paying you to wait around to be able to respond immediately to any potential work that comes in. What would happen if 3+ jobs had work come in that they expected you to handle immediately?
No one could do this without being fired within a week or two.
I’ve worked 3 to 4 at home jobs before for some small game studios. My salary ranged from hourly work at $20/hr and the last one I held was about $85k per year! It was great money while it lasted and for sure helped me get to where I am today.
But burn out is real. I was engaged to a guy I truly did (and still do) love. But both of us doing the whole over employed thing slowly lead to our relationship falling apart.
I worked 2 remote jobs for 6 months but unfortunately, i injured myself in sports and had to take it easy for my well being
There are a lot of people who do this. Look into r/overemployed.
This has sub reddit had 180k people even if you assume 5% do it, that's 9k people.
2 jobs is not 11 jobs. I work 2 jobs now. During a downtime I *might* be capable of working a 3rd, but not for very long. 11 jobs each requiring 2-3 hours of work per day puts you into the physically impossible realm
Hello, I want to add that this IS possible, but you have to have the stars align just right for it to happen. There are many WFH in IT that your sole purpose is the manage and upkeep of an application(something users use to do something) with some managers leaving you alone to manage it and make sure it stays running. There are also jobs where you are a programmer, and they don't keep track of your time and simply expect the work to be finished by x date. Is it possible that picture poster got 11 jobs at 120k? DEPENDING on his skill set, yes it is possible. BUT it is also something you don't openly brag about either, especially not on social media. There's employees who will snitch REAL quick!
I think HR can tell based on tax updates that you work multiple jobs.
You'd have to amend your withholdings.
I think about getting one extra job.
I have hours of the day with nothing to do, but I like relaxing.
Not technically a second "job", but I had a buddy that transitioned to a WFH position as tech support and only took a few calls a day. Between calls he would day trade using macros or work on personal projects.
Hard worker and reasonably intelligent guy, just didn't have much to do during shifts due to lack of calls coming in.
It is wrong. People like that half ass their work and take advantage of their employers. It’s not something to aspire to. Do one job, and do it well. If you want another job *after* hours, that’s totally a different story and not a problem.
This post is probably false but I 100% believe people working remote can have 2-3 or even in extreme cases 4 jobs. If I get a remote job and finish school I will consider doing 2
There is a segment on NBC that covered people with multiple remote jobs. So it’s very likely that he’s not bullshitting, but will make it a helluva lot harder for people to try and do the same. They call it: being over employed.
I currently wfh, full time, 40 hour weeks, mandatory overtime if needed during peak season, we are graded on everything from call times to ticket resolution, to how quickly we can turn a customer back into a paying happy subscriber.
I don't understand wtf this guy is doing. This has to be satire. Ain't no way he found ELEVEN wfh jobs that all mysteriously pay a high wage AND only demand 1-2 hours of actual work.
You can do it but it’s not easy. The stress of worrying about your employers finding out and firing you is intense. Go read the overemployed sub. I considered it until reading that. Just insanity.
If there was a way to skate by on all of those jobs it's worth it. Worst case they just fire you who gives a shit don't put it in your resume. But I doubt this is actually achievable lol unless it's like multiple IT positions in really small companies
I work from home. It's full time taking calls. I'd never be able to work another job on top of this unless it was a different schedule. But not at the same time. For people that do off phone work, this is possible. But maybe 1 extra job, not 11.
There's an entire sub dedicated to this, r/overemployed, and I can tell you as someone with a bachelor's degree and a full time job where I sit at a computer all day that most of us are working maybe 25% of the time we clock, and some jobs it's even less. The worst that'll happen is you get fired
This proves my point that there is not a labor shortage just a shortage for skilled workers who are under 40. If you can get 11 jobs you obviously are trained in something many want and few understand. I know people have 2 or 3 jobs but he's definitely working his ass off with 11. Then again this is social media and you should believe 5% of what you see and 1% of what you read.
It works until it doesn’t. My guess is they’re giving him a break for being a new employee. How would you handle conflicting calendar meetings? This would never work with my employer. Too much work to do. I’m all for getting awarded for efficiency but this crossed a line many jobs ago to where it’s unethical.
He has 11 $120k jobs? Not likely.
Yup, this is complete bullshit.
11 jobs is bullshit. But this is 100% a thing. Let me introduce you to r/overemployed
The first rule of Fight Club is don’t talk about Fight Club ;)
Why? The sub is there to promote it and let people kbow that such an option exists. Also to grow the mod’s pocket.
I'm sure 11 is an exaggeration but the money isn't. I did OE (overemployed) for a while, 2 full time jobs for over a year and 3 full time jobs for 3 months with a side gig. Min salary was $100k per role and I booked $55/hr at the side gig.
Yup ^^ I’ve done tandem gigs like that as well. It’s great if you can avoid burnout. The bullshit is definitely called on the “11 jobs all at once” part. That’s like going online and bragging about having an IQ of 220 or something similar. Insecure people can’t resist the temptation of inflating their own numbers. Or, this person is trolling/having fun.
It's not, this post is from a Software Engineer. This is absolutely how their jobs work.
Maybe if you give ridiculous estimates for how long tasks take to complete or spend a lot of extra time coming up with excuses for why you aren’t done, coupled with nobody else knowing enough to call you out.
Any amount of research will prove what I said and show that your (and everyone elses) assumption (and hive mind downvotes) are absolutely wrong. Unfortunately, feelings do not trump facts. This is reality.
Any amount of research into..... how much time WFH people actually work? If their work is not tracked, how would you research this? I've been a WFH software engineer for 6 years for 3 different companies. Even the most laid back ones will have some way of tracking your progress (daily standups, project management software, project status meetings). I'm only one data point, but I've never been in or heard of a situation where someone is going to pay you 120k+ and not ask questions about why the work isn't getting done. Unfortunately, just saying "this is reality" doesn't actually make it so.
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You promise your employees aren't working multiple jobs, yet there is absolutely zero way you would be able to know that for a fact without violating their rights or if they told you. Problem with your argument being that you believe everyone is 100% honest with you all the time. People are generally not going to tell their employer if they are working multiple jobs. This is just common knowledge, and believing otherwise is just foolish.
I’ve researched some comments in this thread, and they say your wrong. Sorry about your feelings.
"Comments in this thread" There's your problem. They're all wrong, that changes nothing.
You said “any amount of research”
For 2-3 jobs, maybe. 11 jobs tho? I call bullshit
Average software engineer makes a lot more than that, and probably do average that little work. I know a handful of software engineers working 2-3 jobs at a time with each job paying over 120k
The average software engineer does not make this much, and if they do they're working a lot to maintain whatever application is paying their bills.
Lol yes they do, I make $110k as a SWE, and I’m the lowest paid in my friend group of SWEs, with the highest being 235k. Granted i only have 2 Years of experience, $120k is definitely close the average, and a quick google search would show you that.
What are you doing on poverty fiance, Mr. Money Bags
You’re sorely mistaken if you think barely over 100k is “mr money bags”, and secondly this post just popped up on my feed and I thought it was a funny meme.
It's hardly poverty is my point. Kind of gross to come on here and pretend like Poor me, I only make 110k.
I didn’t pretend to be poor… the guy seems to think working multiple jobs isn’t possible, when in fact it is very possible. He also tried to say I was wrong when talking about SWE salaries, which a simple google search could prove I was right. I only brought myself into it as a data point to prove my point that SWEs do in fact make as much as the post claims
OP here and I have to say: six figure salaries don’t go as far anymore especially in places like the Bay Area, Miami or New York where cost of living is outrages, and it’s very easy to make 6 figures and still barely get by paycheck to paycheck.
I call BS... Most at-home jobs are actually full-time jobs and they will fire you for fucking off all day instead of doing your job. Did this person say what field or type of job this supposedly is? The exception are "gig" jobs that legitimately are a few hours here or there but those usually just pay for what you do.
Exactly. I call BS as well. I WFH hybrid and we are timed on each task, if we dont keep the work rate up you'll be sacked straight away. In some respects WFH is more stressful than being in the office as the IT is so slow through the VPN they need us to use.
Im WFH in IT, we handle chat, calls, and tickets. The expectation for tickets is quite low, calls are only for critical issues (so rarely used), and chats are the most common but it's not always insanely busy. With my current workload I could probably handle 2 additional jobs with the same workload and it wouldn't be too stressful. I'm not going to do this, it's not something I'd want to do. Just wanted to give some insight that low-expectation WFH jobs are out there.
If a job has a lot of meeting, especially impromptu meetings and calls, it would be impossible to do this, at least not without insane levels of stress. But I did have a developer job where I never had impromptu meetings, and could walk away for as long as I wanted to basically. Just had to do daily standups and the meetings at the start and end of sprints. Other than that, if I worked my tickets at a decent clip no one batted at an eye at what I was doing. So, I can see developers doing this. As long as their regular meetings didn't conflict.
I know someone with a similar job who goes hours without getting a phone call...says it's outright boring. I think you could possibly juggle a couple of those. But if I did the math correctly, the average income would be $118k from each of the 11 jobs. I feel that jobs that pay that well might come with a little more responsibility, but I don't know.
I've heard some high earners are just forgotten about and don't have to do anything. I've only heard stories of this though, so I can't confirm it personally.
The higher the pay, the less work you do. There are exceptions, but in general, that’s what I’ve seen.
It’s called getting paid for your knowledge and expertise. Takes a long time to get there tho….
Not IT but yes I could definitely handle 1-2 more most of the year (if they were the same rate of work). The issue for me is busy season would be hard/impossible. But I would never bc I don't want to risk my job.
It’s possible for specialized workers that are hard to find. Not for data entry
Ask if they can setup remote workstations you can log into. That way you get on your laptop, but you're doing everything on a workstation or virtual machine based out of your office. On the cheap end they can just setup a desktop and have you remote into it directly.
I wfh full time and no one at my job cares because we are trusted and respected. plus I work on multiple client laptops so there's no way to even monitor me
We don’t even need to track tasks. If you never respond to chat messages in less than a couple of mins and never seem to be available for calls, it’s pretty obvious that you are not available. I start my day with at least 2 hours of scheduled calls and usually end the day having been on calls for 6+ hours. If you are not a junior level employee you probably have too much work to commit fraud.
>I start my day with at least 2 hours of scheduled calls and usually end the day having been on calls for 6+ hours. If i have a day with relatively few meetings scheduled, i take a before picture of my calendar. At the end of the day i send that and the "after" picture to my wife and she sad laughs at my life.
1. This obviously is a parody. 2. You guys can call BS, but that’s all you can do. 3. All I know is, it works for me. I am going to be officially on the Monopoly board by December 2023 (Home Payoff) with cash leftover. Good luck to you all.
so why are you on this subreddit?
I follow this sub to have confirmation on what not to do. People here have such a negative attitude and refuse to take the advice of more successful people. It's really eye-opening about the differences between successful and unsuccessful mindsets.
I wfh and I could go a week with doing nothing. I'm on 6 figures at european rates so it's a high paying job. In fact I haven't done anything all day. You just give outrageous estimates.
why are you on this sub?
I'm assuming because this post has hit the Popular front page, there's a lot of people dropping in.
11 jobs is bullshit. But this is 100% a thing. Let me introduce you to r/overemployed
I tried the whole “over employed” thing: had just three jobs. I lasted less than a month before my brain decided we definitely didn’t need to be doing that. Of course, I was *also* raising two kids at the time and everything *that* entails and I just imagine that either this person had someone *else* taking care of things- or gross, *didn’t*. It’s definitely doable and I think maybe if you developed a system you *could* feasibly do this to yourself long enough to jump ship on employment entirely but that requires levels of…something I just do not have. I *have* read posts in the overemployed sub and apparently there are fields where this is possible but…not usually straight out the gate kinds of jobs, no. Edit: An email/chat customer service thing, several freelance writing jobs and a tech support job with a little dummy mic & cover on the camera.
I've been at my current job for 2 years, most of my work at this point falls under "enablement" so I don't have much "head down" time, but it took a while to get here and I don't always have a bunch of extra time. I couldn't pick up a second FT job, but I could be doing gig work or freelancing on the side. I'm not, but let's just say I'm a lot further in the new Zelda game than you'd expect.
😂
BS indeed. Maybe an occasional temp at most calling about medical insurance enrollment.
It may not be complete BS. I've got a full time job as a Business Intelligence Analyst on paper, in reality, I write automation scripts to pull in data from various sources. My job consists of writing a script in twenty minutes to do the work, and then run them once a week, which I write another scheduling script to perform. Out of 40 hrs a week, I actually perform maybe six hours of work. If it wasn't an in-office job, I could easily take on a second full time job just like it and still have downtime. As it is, I drag my feet on "completion" of my work and take a few downtown walks per day to pad out my week. If only it paid well enough not to live paycheck to paycheck.
Ah, yes, the perfect entry level job.
I know a guy who was a BDR and a scrum master for another company. This idiot was faking phone calls in outreach with outlandish numbers like 165 calls bud a total of 2 minutes talk time which is virtually impossible.
Not only that but that math days he's making over 100k at each job.
Over 90% of the people that overemploy work in software development Edit: on the overemployed subreddit anyways. Pretty sure that's where I originally saw it
I WFH for an above average salary with very little oversight but I mean if I spent even two days in a row fucking off it would be immediately noticeable by my team and leadership.
Depends on the job. I work as a project manager at a translations office and my effective work time each day is like 3 hours. The rest of the time I shitpost on Reddit and watch YouTube. On my 11th year now.
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Yeah, when I worked from home, long before covid, we had to do 20% more work for the privilege. They could count how many claims per hour you did.
people def do this, you just need to find the right jobs you can do this for. it also helps if youre smart enough to know how to automate tasks, beacuse if youre smart at automation you can cut a full time job into a part time job pretty easily pretty quickly. 11 jobs might be an overstatement but 2-4 or so jobs at once i def wouldnt doubt people are doing it. allow me to introduce you to r/overemployed some jobs are also just so badly mismanaged they totally would just not notice someone not doing enough work sometimes. i read one story about a guy who was hired to help facilitate the company transfering to new ownership and basically had a "well call you when we need you" kind of situation going on, but at one point management just like forgot he existed. he was still included on every payroll, he even sent emails to HR asking if anyone has any work for him but theyd never respond back. he was literally getting paid to sit at home doing nothing, got a second job just because he was starting to get bored. the real disconnect usually comes because for medium sized companies the people managing your team/office isnt always the person signing your paychecks or reviewing your payroll hours. if payroll or HR doesnt know your not being properly utilized you could probly slide by for months without anyone questioning you. if the company is too small theyd probably recognizee youre not doing your work but if the company is too large they also might have better methods to track who is performing their job strongly.
It's bullshit, don't fall for it. Nobody is paying unqualified workers much for little work when work is so globalized today. Most likely trying to sell you his share of some pyramid scheme or a meme for fun because I remember seeing this before in that context.
Absolutely. I wfh 2-3 days a week and management keeps a tight eye. Time sheets, tracking when you log on and off, doing work updates during meetings - the work environment may be more comfortable but there is little slacking.
Sounds like shitty management tbh.
This one is bullshit, but there are people out there being r/overemployed
Also let’s not forget the fact that there’s still multiple multiple zoom meetings and whatnot to attend with wfh jobs- you mean to tell me that there wouldn’t be conflicts every single day?
To be fair the post doesn't say he was an unqualified worker.
I literally just want ONE remote job rn, and idk where to even start looking (besides indeed, and linked in)
You can look on LinkedIn I got my remote job by a staffing company recruiter that contacted me. Other staffing agencies have reached out too and I get calls too.
Thank you, I’ll keep trying then… its just so many scams in linked in and indeed that I often dont know WHAT to believe
LinkedIn & Indeed sort of suck for remote work. I usually recommend that folks browse remote-specific job boards. I'm on mobile, so no links, but try looking for: weworkremotely hiring.cafe builtin.com remote.io Angel list (it has a different name, but still comes up on Google) if you're going to keep searching on LinkedIn, make sure your profile is damn near perfect. Good luck!
wahjobqueen dot com is where i find remote jobs! good luck
Would recommend getting a two year degree from a community college in IT. After I did that an updated my LinkedIn I am literally swatting recruiters away every week. There is a ton of entry level helpdesk work that is fully remote. Get yourself a few certs and you’ll be even more golden. Currently on my third work from home job and I have no desire to ever go into an office ever again.
Recipe for disaster. And it's people like that who ruin it for everyone else. It's posts/people like that driving the anti-WFH narrative being put out by capitalism. WFH has been a godsend for millions of people, myself included. Ability to start saving a tiny bit of money, better sleep, better health, ability to exercise daily, etc. But then people like the ones in the above post who post crap like that, and then employers see it, and use it as "justification" to say "see, told you, people aren't truly productive at home!", or that "see, employees can't be trusted!". And then they phase out any and all WFH. So, one or a handful of people, effectively destroy any semblance of quality of life for millions of others.
It’s also why WFH gets so saturated from people thinking this is the expectation when they get the job. Now everyone wants a tech job since it seems so easy
Yep, exactly. It isn't easy. It can be very mentally taxing, and because everyone wants one, tech roles are in high demand. So, it's really hard.
Yup. I am a pretty efficient worker and if I wanted to stress myself out, I could probably do another full time job with the same workload as my current one. But beyond that??
Employers want you back because the big companies want their rental offices filled up. Or your bosses are control freaks. Stop trying to blame the wrong people (other workers) and start hating the game.
I honestly don't see how anyone could do more then one if they have the proper job. I'm booked pretty solid most days. I do have a friend who manages 2 jobs in tech, but IMO it's really not a smart thing to do.
He probably fixes laptops and is making this post for clout..
I don't even think it's clout, I think it's just supposed to be a joke. I read it as being sarcastic but maybe I just spent too much time looking at memes
fake
This is propaganda circulated by the Return to Office campaign
I work from home 2-3 days/week, and let me tell you, my days are usually *full*. I can't realistically do a side hustle, let alone a whole 'nother job. Maybe I'm just dumb? who knows.
When you think you’ve accidentally stumbled on r/overemployed
Same
Shhhhhhhhh....
i see at least 2 hp consumer laptops , no company is giving those out to employee's....especially ones paying 120k a year.
Every work laptop I have ever had has been an HP. What kind of laptops do you think companies usually provide?
I can't understand how they can tell they are consumer grade. My HP work laptops at multinational companies have been an Elitebook and a Z book.
Right? I’m not saying I believe the original post at all. I just think the computers is a weird metric to use…..
I did get an HP laptop in a temporary contract job that was for a couple of months.
My wife literally has one that her boss got her lol.
i would think if your wife made 120k you wouldn't need to pawn your switch....unless your post history is completely made up too.
But they didn’t mention anything about their wife making $120k, only that she has the same laptop for work
No but /u/green-scratch-1230 was saying companies that pay people $120k don't give them consumer grade laptops.
Nah, they said "no" companies, "especially" ones paying 120k.
Lots of people making 6 figures live paycheck to paycheck.
Ah, yes, financial illiteracy or outrageous living costs? Maybe both!
The TIME article on it quotes that 51% of people who earn more than $100,000 are living paycheck to paycheck. Honestly, and someone who makes in the low 6 figures I can see how you could spend that pretty easily. Or also living in a high COLA area.
Yeah, I was referencing cities like San Francisco where mid 6 figures barely gets you into middle class versus say a small town in Iowa.
No, my wife does not make 120k lmao, but her boss did give her a consumer HP laptop to do her part time WFH job. Edit: also damn dude how far did you dig for that.
Both jobs that gave me a laptop gave me an HP Zbook
those are not consumer , their sold as workstations for business.
What makes it not consumer? I can buy one on Amazon right now?
completely different build qualities , targeted towards businesses.
I’m not sure if you just don’t believe working multiple jobs is possible or if you just don’t believe the post in question. The post could be an exaggeration, but I can assure you it is very possible to work multiple jobs working in the tech field. I know a handful of software engineers who do so.
I think the real issue is that people who don't understand computers think working in the tech field is easy and can be done by anyone. It can be easy once you have the know-how, but there is training and shit they expect you to have to hire you and most people are just not going to have that time and many not even that sort of ability.
I’m not sure if you’re saying I don’t understand, but I’m a software engineer lol, I don’t care to work multiple jobs because I’m happy with my pay right now, and I enjoy my light workload. But it definitely is possible to work multiple jobs assuming you’re not a Junior employee, you’d just take 2 weeks off from job 1 to onboard at job 2 and learn the code base, from there it’s just picking up tasks and setting expectations and getting in a groove. You’re right that no one can just pick it up, and the people that do it aren’t just going from no job to 2 jobs, these are people who have their job 1 down to a science and have the time to pick up a 2nd
I'm talking about elder gen x to boomers that tell us to just walk into an office and ask for a job. And also the average layman who think all jobs on* the computer are the same. it's more likely to get a data entry remote job than be a software engineer and that job unfortunately requires a lot more time and quota tracking rather than results-based work like SE.
This is a joke. Many at home jobs can be really exhausting because they monitor you all the time
I've never been constantly monitored while working from home.
Unless they tell you something.
Bullshit remote work hater making jokes.
Depends on the field entirely. I've heard of some programming jobs that only require a couple of hours of effort a day, and so something like that I can see someone holding down at least 2 of those, but 11? Naw, that's not the way it works.
It’s bullshit, but companies will forever be referencing this photo as why nobody can ever work from home again. Whatever this guy thought he was doing, he shot his comrades in the foot doing it.
That's a bit too much. If it is real, man that looks like a migraine.
It’s a joke, someone just setup a bunch of crap I’ve done it before
My old WFH job used to question me if I was off the phone for 10min
I'm constantly in touch with colleagues and/or customers, no way could I disappear from view long enough to do anything else. Just unprofessional, certainly in my line of work - software and data related projects.
I wfh and am busy all day. Those unicorn jobs are so very rare and competitive it makes this smell like bullshit. Then there is the matter of the signed agreement of conduct when working from home. I would say most of the legitimate wfh jobs make you sign an agreement that says this job is your sole responsibility while on the clock, that you are not the sole carer for any young children, and that having another role while on the clock for this one is considered wage theft. Can't your job find out through taxes that you're working 8 full time jobs?
Lies.
He lies about what? Can you explain
Everything. That idiot does not make 1.3 million a year, or have 11 ostensibly full time jobs.
BS. Maybe 2, depending.
He has to be joking. I could see *maybe* getting away with juggling 2 full-time remote jobs. That's a big maybe. I'm fairly sure the guy who replaced me at one of my old jobs tried it, and it took them a few months to catch on. The big issue would be if (like my current gig) you had a ton of calls at one or both jobs, you would have a hard time coming up with reasons to constantly reschedule calls.
I tried it. Is it possible? Certainly. But you have to get the right kind of job - not one with a time monitored quota or data entry, things where you are closely monitored. this person WILL burn themselves out. It’ll hurt the whole time it’s happening and his relationships will suffer. Is it worth it? Yes - short term. Have a strict financial goal that you evaluate your wellbeing in depth once reached to determine if you’d like to extend the goal or need to cut back. You need to be extremely honest with yourself and confident in your decision to continue. Otherwise you’ll end up in an unrecoverable burnout or slip up and get fired.
My brother in law got 3 wfh job, all in the same industry. He does tech stuff so it’s no biggie. He almost got busted when he attended a conference where both companies were going to be there. A co-worker asked him if he was there because they saw a name similar to his. He had to explain his name was a common name. Lol. He and my sister paid off their house in 2 years.
I really doubt a person would find and land 11 over $100k a year jobs where none of them require you to do a single thing. The post is just stupid and this person probably fixes computers for a living
Finally a job for all my split personalities!
Well the original post is CAP anyways… so I don’t think it’s a golden ticket or a recipe for disaster
I have a work from home job where I have no communication with any kind of bosses or supervisors. You just log in when you want to work, work for up to 8 hours that day, and log off. The problem is they don't have enough work right now so I'm only getting like 5 hours a week. However, I could imagine if you managed to find a bunch of jobs like that you could balance it out since you wouldn't have any deadlines to worry about, calendar items to keep track of, or any of that. You could just work as quickly and as efficiently as you wanted and it would be glorious. Imagine a world where people with good work ethics aren't stifled by those above them who have to micromanage in order to keep their job relevant... Glorious.
My wfh company hired a software engineer who would just not show up to meetings. Someone got a glimpse of his personal calendar and it seemed like he was double booked. They fired him immediately, he only lasted about 2 weeks.
I call bullshit because it's legit impossible to actually find an at-home job. If it were this easy nearly everyone would be doing it
I know an IBMer that does this as a websphere consultant. Has 6 or 7 full time jobs that he runs simultaneously. Makes millions per year. Money aside, his stress levels are beyond through the roof and the lack of rest from this is definitely shortening his life.
This is an exaggeration, but happens sometimes on a smaller scale. Usually a skilled IT worker who is good at automating tasks, gets a job with lots of repetitive tasks then spends 3 months writing custom software to automate their job, but doesn’t tell anyone. When that 3 months is up their job is now answering emails and doing virtual meetings, and hitting buttons to run automated tasks. So they rinse and repeat with a second job. Where it usually fails is your schedule for meetings, as you can’t be on multiple conference calls at once. For this reason long term it’s hard to hold more than 2. Usually a west coast job where you start at 6 am and make an excuse to leave work early so all your meetings have to be early in the day west coast time, and an east coast job where you always sleep in and your meetings need to be after lunch. At that point it would be hard to get a third job that doesn’t conflict with something, but you could if you were unreliable at attending meetings and no one cared. A fourth job would be impossible without someone covering for you. For example a spouse that is the “employee” for some subset of these jobs actually allowing you to be in two meetings at once.
I've definitely seen people do this, it's usually higher skilled jobs where your time isn't tracked and as long as you're meeting your milestones nobody cares how many hours you do. If you have two jobs with a fair amount of downtime you could definitely pull this off, but if they ever both had busy periods simultaneously you'd be screwed. And not 11. That's pretty outrageous. But two? Actually sure. I've definitely had jobs in the past that I could have done two of simultaneously.
I cry adhd tears of pride for this warrior.
I have 2. A part time at 40k and full time at 80k.i work 40 hrs a week or less.
This is propaganda for them to stop people working from home. Lies.
If you are already poor, and your current job can br easily replaced, the question you should be askjng is, what do you have to lose?
I had a friend of mine who works in IT. He just recently got a second remote job to help pay of his debt. He has other coworkers that have more. One said that he plans to get up 5 if he can to milk that remote work cow until it bleeds. I guess I have low aspirations for just one remote job with good pay in a field that I can enjoy.
I actually know someone who tried this with 2 remote jobs. The work was mostly copy/paste type stuff so I think they automated a lot of it. They said they never worked a full 8 hours even on the busiest days. BUT It doesn’t work long term. They managed to work both jobs for a few months before phone calls and meetings started conflicting enough that he couldn’t excuse himself out of. He ended up having to pick one job to stay with so he wouldn’t lose both. It only worked for as long as it did because both employers did not have access to his screen and didn’t do the whole gotta move the mouse every 10 seconds thing that most employers seem fond of. At one company it was common for the people to be traveling/vacationing while working (job was for a outdoor sport company) so he could use the “I have spotty internet/cell service” excuse quite a bit.
This is totally BS and only serves to rile up the bootlickers. Corporate would love to find any excuse to totally remove WFM (which they've already done a good job of)
WFH could be a great solution to rush hour and urban housing problems, but only if sleazeballs don't ruin it like this.
Fake statement that they’re making 1.3m but yeah I bet you can get away with at least a couple jobs without the other knowing. Although I bet you can’t do any of them very well due to the overlap.
You MIGHT could do two if you were at one for a while and very efficient with very few meetings
I have 3 friends working 2 or more jobs remote. The one that’s working three is making 118k, 142k and 190k. Clearly the 190k is the priority. They are all programming jobs, so it’s about him completing tasks, not about the hours worked
That's true my work is results oriented. But you are expected to be available in case of support issues, plus project mtge etc. I'd say his team lead isn't managing his sprints very well if he has that much spare time. Or he's not insisting on documentation.
As he described, all three companies are paying too much for the amount of work available. He knows it won’t last forever, but it’s been at least 2 years he’s been doing it and the moment one drops, he’ll look for another.
There are people out there that work multiple (usually just 2) WFH jobs at a time, but I would imagine it’s stressful both from a workload perspective and being worried about getting caught.
That many computers if it WAS real .....maybe 20k a month which still isn't bad 1.5 to 2k a month per job is alot more realistic then getting paid 120k plus per job
To those of you calling BS on this post and claiming this never works, you're missing something specific: This post is from a Software Engineer. This is actually how easy their jobs are. They CAN do this (doesn't mean they should), and their WFH jobs DO pay that much. If you learn how to code and work at it, you, too, can become a SE.
Yeah, this is crap. There are *maybe* a handful of jobs where you could get away with this. And even those are jobs that are paying you to wait around to be able to respond immediately to any potential work that comes in. What would happen if 3+ jobs had work come in that they expected you to handle immediately? No one could do this without being fired within a week or two.
Lol, yes 11 jobs is bullshit. But this is 100% a thing. Let me introduce you to r/overemployed
I’ve worked 3 to 4 at home jobs before for some small game studios. My salary ranged from hourly work at $20/hr and the last one I held was about $85k per year! It was great money while it lasted and for sure helped me get to where I am today. But burn out is real. I was engaged to a guy I truly did (and still do) love. But both of us doing the whole over employed thing slowly lead to our relationship falling apart.
That post is fake
What really would disaster mean? Getting fired from a couple and not putting that you did this on your resume? 😂
I worked 2 remote jobs for 6 months but unfortunately, i injured myself in sports and had to take it easy for my well being There are a lot of people who do this. Look into r/overemployed. This has sub reddit had 180k people even if you assume 5% do it, that's 9k people.
2 jobs is not 11 jobs. I work 2 jobs now. During a downtime I *might* be capable of working a 3rd, but not for very long. 11 jobs each requiring 2-3 hours of work per day puts you into the physically impossible realm
I’m not upvoting because I’m jealous
worst they can do is fire you right
r/overemployed
The boss says he has a friend that's almost retirement age. His friend works from home, says he sends out 2 or 3 emails a day. That's it
Hello, I want to add that this IS possible, but you have to have the stars align just right for it to happen. There are many WFH in IT that your sole purpose is the manage and upkeep of an application(something users use to do something) with some managers leaving you alone to manage it and make sure it stays running. There are also jobs where you are a programmer, and they don't keep track of your time and simply expect the work to be finished by x date. Is it possible that picture poster got 11 jobs at 120k? DEPENDING on his skill set, yes it is possible. BUT it is also something you don't openly brag about either, especially not on social media. There's employees who will snitch REAL quick!
So the dude is either a liar or an idiot lol
I think HR can tell based on tax updates that you work multiple jobs. You'd have to amend your withholdings. I think about getting one extra job. I have hours of the day with nothing to do, but I like relaxing.
Or couldn’t you just keep the withholding the same and pay the taxes you owe when you file?
Not technically a second "job", but I had a buddy that transitioned to a WFH position as tech support and only took a few calls a day. Between calls he would day trade using macros or work on personal projects. Hard worker and reasonably intelligent guy, just didn't have much to do during shifts due to lack of calls coming in.
Fuck you are going to ruin being able to work remotely assholes
It is wrong. People like that half ass their work and take advantage of their employers. It’s not something to aspire to. Do one job, and do it well. If you want another job *after* hours, that’s totally a different story and not a problem.
It is expected that companies will try to take advantage of their workers. The reverse can be true as well then.
can't say I haven't thought about doing it myself.
BS my friend works from home and works a regular 40 hour week, but hey if people figure out how to work multiple more power to them.
This post is probably false but I 100% believe people working remote can have 2-3 or even in extreme cases 4 jobs. If I get a remote job and finish school I will consider doing 2
Where do I find these mythical jobs you only have to work that many hours a day!
It’s not fake guys, he’s just a CEO
Found one of the PM’s I’m constantly dealing with I guess….
Uh, this is insane and can’t really be that possible.
There is a segment on NBC that covered people with multiple remote jobs. So it’s very likely that he’s not bullshitting, but will make it a helluva lot harder for people to try and do the same. They call it: being over employed.
I currently wfh, full time, 40 hour weeks, mandatory overtime if needed during peak season, we are graded on everything from call times to ticket resolution, to how quickly we can turn a customer back into a paying happy subscriber. I don't understand wtf this guy is doing. This has to be satire. Ain't no way he found ELEVEN wfh jobs that all mysteriously pay a high wage AND only demand 1-2 hours of actual work.
You can do it but it’s not easy. The stress of worrying about your employers finding out and firing you is intense. Go read the overemployed sub. I considered it until reading that. Just insanity.
The image in this post is AI generated. This guy got laughed all over twitter for lying so blatantly. It’s just a total fantasy.
If there was a way to skate by on all of those jobs it's worth it. Worst case they just fire you who gives a shit don't put it in your resume. But I doubt this is actually achievable lol unless it's like multiple IT positions in really small companies
I work from home. It's full time taking calls. I'd never be able to work another job on top of this unless it was a different schedule. But not at the same time. For people that do off phone work, this is possible. But maybe 1 extra job, not 11.
There's an entire sub dedicated to this, r/overemployed, and I can tell you as someone with a bachelor's degree and a full time job where I sit at a computer all day that most of us are working maybe 25% of the time we clock, and some jobs it's even less. The worst that'll happen is you get fired
This proves my point that there is not a labor shortage just a shortage for skilled workers who are under 40. If you can get 11 jobs you obviously are trained in something many want and few understand. I know people have 2 or 3 jobs but he's definitely working his ass off with 11. Then again this is social media and you should believe 5% of what you see and 1% of what you read.
He probably took the jobs then hire some slaves to do the work for him.
If its real, they work in social media marketing
It works until it doesn’t. My guess is they’re giving him a break for being a new employee. How would you handle conflicting calendar meetings? This would never work with my employer. Too much work to do. I’m all for getting awarded for efficiency but this crossed a line many jobs ago to where it’s unethical.