New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Have you gotten a 2nd full-time remote job since the start of lockdown?
Ask HN: Have you gotten a 2nd full-time remote job since the start of lockdown?
3 by toomanyrichies | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Over the course of the pandemic, I've seen multiple anecdotes here on HN of engineers (and others) taking on additional full-time remote jobs and working them in parallel. I'm wondering if there are folks here on HN who have made this work, either surreptitiously or with the consent of their current employer. I'd like to hear about any and all gotchas you've encountered. The one I'm most interested in is the juggling of meetings. What if the current and new teams have overlapping stand-ups, for example? Or what if an impromptu meeting gets added to the person's calendar, creating a conflict with existing commitments? I'm also looking for opinions on the morality of such an action. To me, it seems equivalent to that same dev getting a job as a shared ride driver or something, if (and this is a BIG if) the employee is able to continue delivering the same quality of work to both employers, the two companies operate in separate spaces, and there's no risk of improper IP transfer. That said, I'm open to the possibility that I'm wrong here. Hoping the HN hive mind will have insights that I haven't considered.
3 by toomanyrichies | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Over the course of the pandemic, I've seen multiple anecdotes here on HN of engineers (and others) taking on additional full-time remote jobs and working them in parallel. I'm wondering if there are folks here on HN who have made this work, either surreptitiously or with the consent of their current employer. I'd like to hear about any and all gotchas you've encountered. The one I'm most interested in is the juggling of meetings. What if the current and new teams have overlapping stand-ups, for example? Or what if an impromptu meeting gets added to the person's calendar, creating a conflict with existing commitments? I'm also looking for opinions on the morality of such an action. To me, it seems equivalent to that same dev getting a job as a shared ride driver or something, if (and this is a BIG if) the employee is able to continue delivering the same quality of work to both employers, the two companies operate in separate spaces, and there's no risk of improper IP transfer. That said, I'm open to the possibility that I'm wrong here. Hoping the HN hive mind will have insights that I haven't considered.
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