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Poll: Do you work two or more full-time remote jobs?

13 points by mgh2 ↗ HN
What are your views on this as an employer or employee?

It seems possible, but 37% seems a bit high, maybe it is just propaganda

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30295272

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emptybottle
Not worth it at all IMO. If a person wants to juggle multiple clients to earn more money consulting is a much better approach.
barbazoo
Isn't it much harder to find multiple consulting clients though? I can see the appeal, it's relatively trivial to get a job, but obviously highly unethical unless you absolutely deliver on all of them and don't violate any contracts.
emptybottle
It’s the inverse basically. Harder (but still possible) at first but over time a network of trust and reference is built. As opposed to the sneaky/illegal house of cards that could fall at any moment.

A lot of people moonlight as a consultant until they can go full time.

jdlshore
Incredibly unethical in my opinion. Selfish, too—it poisons the well for other remote workers, who will now have to deal with the intrusive tracking and lack of trust this behavior engenders.
culopatin
Assuming you don’t get paid hourly you’re basically selling a service. Why does a company care as long as you deliver and you don’t work for a competitor? (Obviously they DO care, I’m aware of that, the question is why is that so unethical)
jdlshore
You’re not selling a service. You’re selling your time.

When you take a job as a full-time employee, you’re agreeing to trade 40-ish hours a week for a yearly salary. If want a job where you’re taking money in exchange for meeting specific deliverables, you can be a contractor doing fixed-price bids. It pays more, if you’re good at it, but it’s much riskier. That’s why it pays more.

Taking a full-time job and not working full-time hours is fraud.

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fbrncci
As I am interviewing for remote jobs, while I am in a remote job, I have been considering it. But it really does not seem worth the potentional issues and complexities. The money would be nice, but it also doesn't feel like it would help me grow as a person in my career. Instead, being a good freelancer or consultant to multiple clients would likely achieve the same, with better long term prospects.
uejfiweun
I don't really have to work that many hours in my SWE job to be productive enough to satisfy management. I could easily take on a second job if it was like the first. And I would happily do this to double my TC. I'm honestly sitting around bored a lot of the time, waiting for code reviews or running long pipelines or builds.

Assuming this is legal, how exactly would it be so unethical to do this? If I could work a second job without detriment to my performance in the first, what's the harm? Also, is it legal?