Thoughts on r/overemployed?
These people are claiming to work multiple remote jobs at the same time and claim to make 250k+ for like 20 hours of real work a week. Does anyone one this forum have experience with this or know people that have done this? It seems like a lot of these jobs are tech oriented, but am curious about how replicable this is in finance.
Personally not that comfortable with lying. Can’t imagine having to lie around the clock and manage two calendars
If people want to treat their career like The Talented Mr. Ripley, then it is their prerogative to try, but I see it as a highly dishonest practice which is probably not that prevalent. I do think there are certain high paid IT jobs where this works a lot better. It’s one of those things that when you’re doing your job well, it doesn’t look like you’re working at all. That’s an ideal job for a liar.
In "high finance" it's not replicable IMO because face time is a real component of just about every FO role. But for stuff in IT, basic engineering, and above all else non-profit/public sector jobs it's extremely easy. I have a friend who was unemployed but a smart guy that threw together a fake resume and had I think something like 12 different jobs throughout the 2020-2022 period on the side, mostly government IT-related stuff. He'd outsource a ton of work to foreign contractors (using platforms like Upwork to find reliable folks, then hiring them directly) to manage the hours he needed to be online and centralized the email addresses to a singular mail app. Toughest part was the calendar management and making sure he didn't need to be in 2 meetings at once. Most he had at once was 5 and he was clearing at his peak what would've been $450k annualized when he himself was probably doing 30 or so hours of work a week just managing the different contractors and workflows. He did end up getting fired from ALL of the jobs so he can't list them on his resume. But he did use the money he made from it over that period to acquire a house and a small contracting business so while he's no multi-millionaire, he's doing just fine.
Don't think it's something I'd recommend someone do and seems like it was an approach uniquely suited to the confusion that surrounded lockdowns and ability to take advantage of various sectors not thinking through the whole "remote work" thing. Probably not as possible today - then again we do have AI automation so I could be completely wrong.
I think its a lot of cap / BS posters on that subreddit. Followed it for awhile in the summer and a lot of the 'scenarios' sounded very unrealistic.
I personally don't know anyone who does this but I imagine it was rampant in 2021 when companies were giving people lateral promotions like it was candy.
Most jobs where you make that much and are working that few hours in today's economy most likely means you might be getting laid off soon as your role is becoming less and less important at the organization.
Saw a setup of someone on TikTok doing this working 10 jobs with 10 different laptops all in a half circle. Insanity.
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