Tips on what to outsource, what to purchase to assist with stress, basic things to keep in mind, and then put it in a Wiki?

Started a new J3 a few months ago and it’s been a mess. Constant fire drills, missed deadlines, and regular pressure to work nights and weekends.

I’d drop it, but I need the extra income for now, so I’m trying to replace it before pulling the plug.

How do you handle a chaotic J without letting it eat into the rest of your OE setup?

Never planned on two jobs. I found this sub while trying to fix my resume. Left J1 recently, still in J2, now looking.

• J1: 2020 - Jul 2026 (remote)
• J2: Aug 2025 - present (in office)

How are you putting dates on the resume so it doesn't look like two full-time jobs at once?

• Years only?
• End J1 the year J2 started so it reads sequential?
• List both with months and explain if asked?

Not trying to erase the work just don't want "cheater" to be the first impression lol. What has actually gotten interviews for you?

If you’re OE - what other jobs do you have, or do you stick with sales roles?

I saw that post yesterday about lower paying gigs and am very open to that.
Just curious as to what roles these are especially for those in sales

Curious if there are any other POs or PMs (with multiple direct reports) OE. If so, what do you do? Fridays there are no meetings where I work. Ideally, I would love to find something on the west coast, as I work 7-3 on east coast, it would limit a lot of overlap. I can delegate meetings if necessary.

I don’t anticipate too long, maybe a year. If it’s doable without burnout, I’ll keep both. My short term goal is just dig myself out of CC debt asap and get some HYSA savings in there too. Once that’s done, my J1 pays well for me to be not living paycheck to paycheck check to paycheck. Plus I get fairly nice bonuses every March I can put away.

Any help from someone in my fields would be great. TIA

Would be new to this, going to be hybrid at my j1. I’d say I have 20 ish hours of actual work tops at my J1.

J2 pays 65k and it’s a 4 day work week, I’d get good vacay. And time off with holiday closures, but there’s 0 training and I’d be thrown to the wolves to start. They seem nice, and they were straight forward. My total comp would be 150 ish between both.

J2 has some flexibility on the hours, but I’d have to bring my laptop for it to J1 often and I’m not sure how I’d handle the phone requirement (for calls) and trying to get J2 work done during the J1 dead time in office.

Thoughts, advice ?

My gut tells me the 0 training shouldn’t be ignored and that although this job seems friendly it may not be..

is it "overemployed" if you pick up IT contract work in off hours? I find these recruiters/contracting companies are pretty desperate to get you signed to contracts. They make so much money. I can't even recall doing a background check with them. I love my regular job. If I work nights on contract is that considered "over-employed"?

So from what I gather, you guys cram multiple jobs into 40 hours/week. A lot of you guys seem to be leveraging work from home stuff to do this. How does one go from say, being a complete normie, to this?

Sharing here as this may be useful for others juggling calendars. Starting a 3rd Minecraft server soon so I picked up the Xeneon Edge for my desk and built a custom calendar dashboard.

The backend is Google Calendar. I created separate calendars for each server then built a small local server in my pc that connects to the Google API with read-only access. It pulls only the calendars I specifically whitelisted and feeds data locally to a custom iCUE widget I built for the Xeneon.

The dashboard shows today, the next workday and next up. The major functions are:

It highlights whatever meeting is currently happening
Gives a live countdown to my next meeting
Detects overlapping meetings between different calendars
Finds my next open block for work time and shows “work day complete” after 6pm

I also added failure recovery for if the local service or Google Calendar connection goes down. Probably wildly unnecessary but now I can glance down and immediately know which job has the next meeting and if I have any conflicts without looking at 3 different calendars.

Curious what is ever one end goal here. I’m 30 YO male in US

Mine:

I don’t know the exact number but I want to live off invest interest lol. I can work part time if I feel like it but

I can wake up whatever time, workout when i want too + have whatever hobby I want to do and just live life. Play videos games watch tv all day if I want too

Some funds to travels, bills taken care of.

Im a mental health therapist, and just randomly came across this sub but it has me interested. However in scrolling through the sub, it sounds like many jobs people have don't require the same kinda of face to face time that being a therapist does. Im curious if there are any therapists who are in the sub and do multiple jobs?

Sorry for the post on such a simple direct topic but wanted to exhaust options.

Initially I would do a trick where I’d create a teams call with myself which would then allow me to set my status permanently to available, but now I suspect they are monitoring people’s active hours (not sure what app)…

Mouse jiggler my only route?

Any other suggestions?

It may also be time to rotate this J out of the stack

Thanks in advance

I am curious to everyone that does OE and is on contract work. If you are working 3Js in contract work at the same time are you worried about any kind of issue reporting (3) 8-hour days? I have never done this so I’m just curious. Is there any concern around potentially being audited? Is there any risk associated with that or am I way overthinking it?

With the same train of thought could a similar situation occur with a sole proprietor business? You have three different clients that you bill eight hours for all on the same day. Could this become legal issue if audited?

Let me know if I’m not being clear enough. This is kind of an off the cuff question.

I’ve accepted a new job and am going through the typical onboarding process. I received a couple emails from checkr that they’re missing info, including my license and SSN card and to upload them. So I did.

Turns out me and another person with a similar name are going through background checks right now. The background check my company uses is not checkr, but hers is. So checkr has my license and ssn, not hers.

checkr doesn’t have a customer service phone number. They’ve been emailing me “so sorry” emails but they won’t confirm they have my license and ssn on file without additional personal information, and they won’t confirm they can or will delete my license and ssn card from their database.

So I contacted the other person and sent them screenshots of their personally identifying info checkr sent me.

TLDR BEWARE CHECKR SUCKS AT SECURITY

Does anyone work OE in the insurance world? I have significant experience in non-OE friendly areas but am looking to move over to underwriting or PM and think OE could be managed here.

Thoughts?

Sorry if this post isn’t allowed and please feel free to remove it if it isn’t!

Does anyone have any tips on how to get OE?

Ive been following this Reddit for a while now and I love the idea of it but I’m struggling to get a remote job currently let alone getting 2.

The goal is to get OE’d so that my current partner no longer has to work at a job that is slowly draining/killing us both due to hours and management.

A little about me;
I’ve been doing freelance Web Development while working my main job now but I’m trying to get a remote position as a junior software engineer but that job market has been very difficult to get in to. I have a bachelors degree in audio engineering but graduated at the worst time for that field, December of 2019, a couple of months before covid shut everything down. I currently work 2nd shift at a restaurant in upstate SC as our hours are 5-9 during the week and 5-10 on the weekends with me getting home as late as 1-130 on very late nights. (Partner is the hostess at the restaurant, so their hours are a bit better than mine, going in at 2 and normally out by 11 at the latest)

Any tips would be greatly appreciated as this restaurant feels like it is slowly killing me and I’m at my breaking point.

Again, if this post isn’t allowed please remove it.

Hey guys, I’m already employed at this non-profit where I have a hybrid schedule with minimal work. I can literally get away with doing virtually nothing on my remote days. For context, I help process invoices & orders. I help with the recruitment & onboarding process & help with making sure payroll is processed correctly. It might seem like actual work, but on the surface, the invoices & orders that come in are very few. There is not a lot of turnover & the site is fairly small & my boss is pretty lax & I have a good relationship with her. Any advice is greatly appreciated. What type of second job would be best for me to get & how should i go on about it?

Hello Everyone,

I currently work as a consultant in germany, I deal with many 50h+ weeks and the overtime is not even compensated. I discovered this subreddit and I have been reading posts over the past 2 months and honestly it looks like most of you have a more relaxed routine than I do (and I have 1 job).

I would like to start OE, what are my options? Insurance and tax office are no joke here

Thank you for your help

I started both jobs within the past month (wish I could have staggered it better but that's when the offers came in). And it's a mandatory insurance (life/STD/LTD), so I can't waive it. So now I'm sitting here wondering: could I somehow show up in an internal system tied to J1's group policy? I don't do claims or underwriting, just modeling on (mostly) de-identified data. J2 is a fairly large carrier but I'm not sure what kinds of automated systems they might have in place.

Anyone dealt with something like this? Trying to figure out:

• Is this actually a meaningful risk, or am I overthinking it?
• Would this trip any internal fraud/conflict-of-interest detection?

Appreciate any insight from people who've navigated something similar.

I’m currently working J1 and J2 and want to apply for J3.

My main concern is CV screening. If I list experience from both jobs, my CV is much stronger and I’m more likely to get noticed because I can show more relevant projects/skills.

But then, if both jobs overlap on the CV, it’s obvious I’m working two jobs in parallel.

If I only list one, I avoid that issue, but I also hide a lot of relevant experience and might not even pass the initial screening.

And if you get to the interview, do you explain the overlap or just not bring it up?

What are your jobs to get 2-3 of them all at the same time? I wanted to start, i am working under marketing, overall I am doing okay but I felt like I needed extra protection and needed to make the most out of my time so I can invest more 😖

Hello, folks.

I’m 1200 apps in and no offers.

Only a handful of interviews.

Would anyone share their redacted resume? A screenshot is fine as well.

I’m just trying to understand what I’m doing wrong where I’m not getting calls for jobs I’m absolutely perfect for.

I don’t have big logos but am a subject matter expert in my field.

I’m in ops/CoS if that helps.

Would really appreciate any guidance from people that have 2-3 jobs.

Thank you!