Iirc there's a subreddit dedicated to this called doubleworking or something and it basically amounts to people taking on mid tier jobs and then maintaining python scripts to automate them.
Pretty cool imo except that employers will immediately fire people if they figure it out because "mUh TiME ThEfT" which is hilariously shortsighted since those are probably their best employees
Yeah I've been doing this since just before the pandemic.
Do you do this in a programming job or just literally you automated some other job entirely?
Me building a fucking synth to automate my plant job for me
The secret to happiness as a programmer:
- Automate every task you possibly can
- Never tell your employer that you've done so
r/overemployed. I was doing this for about 9 months until one of my jobs laid me off. Very close to picking up another job right now, though.
Pretty cool imo except that employers will immediately fire people if they figure it out
Lots of employers know and simply look the other way. Lots more employers don't know and aren't curious enough or sophisticated enough to figure it out.
Remember in the mid 2000s when George W Bush was doing a town hall and a woman had the microphone and started talking about her desperate situation working three jobs?
Bush responded by saying "You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it?" And the audience clapped.
Remember when Bernie got fact-checked for saying that millions of americans were working three jobs to pay the bills and the fact-checker said it was "only" 8 million, so the statement was misleading?
Three pinocchios for hurting my feelings and making me shit out my doodoo ass
In Soviet china, you would have 0 jobs and starve to death in a GULAG. So chin up, buttercup, and count your blessings. An African child would kill to have 30 jobs!
Being overemployed is all fun and games until you have to put time stamps on your resume
Uh, I just list the longest tenure contiguous roles, don't use LinkedIn, and put everything else in a general "skills" bucket after the specific roles.
Gonna give the person who wrote "being overemployed is all fun and games" two CIA Excellence in Journalism awards :lenin-rage:
The workers of America who gave us the 7 hour work day did us a great favor because now we have more time to get a second job!
I just like the theory that timestamps on your resume are somehow a dealbreaker for employers who have fully-automated their HR process.
Hmmm....so people have too many jobs, you say? I know! Let's raise wages. That lowers jobs so people will only have one to really focus on, problem solved, right?
It is insane how much more productive humans have become since computers/automation entered most workplaces. Yet almost all of that increased productivity has been going to the stockholders and executives for decades upon decades.
An Example: CAD engineering/modelling software has made it possible for a single civil engineer to do the work of a dozen engineers/draftsman. It used to take days/weeks to do small changes for schematics, now it is almost instant.
Civil engineers are paid roughly $40-50 an hour, which adjusted for inflation is about the same as it was in the 1970's.
Yep. I make $30/hr and can basically design an underground network (with revisions) for a medium sized city in a couple months using some of the automation tools available in ArcGIS. Boss man doesn't know what we do and only comes into the office to complain about us not making him enough money between his bi-monthly $50,000 family ski trips.
It's legitimately insane how much work even an entry level draftsman/draftswoman can do now. Especially with Open Data and Arc. like literally millions of feet of design per drafter per year for someone who hadn't even touched the software before they started the job.
That kinda design footage used to be reserved for entire teams of engineers, now it's just some 23 year old kid who learned how to use a computer to record an album in college getting paid $20-30/hr
WHEN IS HAVING MULTIPLE JOBS EVER FUN AND GAMES AGSGSJSGRVEJD
Lol even the people "winning" this by delicately balancing two do-nothing PMC jobs and constantly stressing over forgetting which job is which get the prize of... A modest house and maybe retirement
Gonna find the person who wrote that and forcibly overemploy them
lol using the fact that most proles have to have multiple full time jobs to survive to shame the miniscule portion of the labor aristocracy for pulling one over on the bosses, never change bourgeoisie media
