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    Been Thinking About Doing This

    https://overemployed.com/

    I have taken consulting gigs while employed but holding down two full time gigs always seemed a little...unsavory. I had a plan when I was leaving my last job of 20 years that I would milk them with some overlap...maybe 2 weeks or something just as a little fuck you bonus. I was worried about getting sued though as I work in a pretty small sector of healthcare and it would be a pretty big conflict of interest.

    I have been rethinking this approach though. I currently have a gig that's remote with travel nationally. I might have another opportunity in a C suite role with a PE backed company in a slightly different industry. Still healthcare but different call points and definitely not a conflict of interest from a customer standpoint. Probably won't do it but I thought it was funny that there was a website dedicated to it.

    At my old company the reps who left just used to get new jobs and collect checks until they got fired or threatened with termination and then resigned. I was always amazed how long they got away with it for.

    Onestep you ever do this???????? 10.2.2
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    dude its totally thing but depending on how reputation critical your job is, consider that virtually every hire contract has a clause in it saying you absolutely cant do this.

    like the people doing this are working _very_ junior positions generally.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by sonatine View Post
      dude its totally thing but depending on how reputation critical your job is, consider that virtually every hire contract has a clause in it saying you absolutely cant do this.

      like the people doing this are working _very_ junior positions generally.
      Yeah I think being an officer or equity holder is probably a different discussion than an at-will mid manager in some random sales org. Making a guaranteed 500k is tantalizing though lol.

      Definitely a valid point on the reputation aspect. I would be out of work indefinitely if it leaked. Too close to the finish line to risk it at this point. I think the last 5 years before I retire this could be an option though.

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      • #4
        if you have access to PII data for example, thats a good baseline for not fucking with this unless you have a really slick angle and you think you can wing it.

        but there are so many shitty staffing agencies being run out of like bangalor or whatever that you could probably just round robin through them for years while collecting 2-3 paychecks every 2 weeks.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by gauchojake View Post
          https://overemployed.com/

          I have taken consulting gigs while employed but holding down two full time gigs always seemed a little...unsavory. I had a plan when I was leaving my last job of 20 years that I would milk them with some overlap...maybe 2 weeks or something just as a little fuck you bonus. I was worried about getting sued though as I work in a pretty small sector of healthcare and it would be a pretty big conflict of interest.

          I have been rethinking this approach though. I currently have a gig that's remote with travel nationally. I might have another opportunity in a C suite role with a PE backed company in a slightly different industry. Still healthcare but different call points and definitely not a conflict of interest from a customer standpoint. Probably won't do it but I thought it was funny that there was a website dedicated to it.

          At my old company the reps who left just used to get new jobs and collect checks until they got fired or threatened with termination and then resigned. I was always amazed how long they got away with it for.

          Onestep you ever do this???????? 10.2.2

          If you did this right before Covid, like Feb2020, I feel like it would have been the best time cause people didnt want to let people go right away, but now I dont know.

          I've seen this on Tiktok from a few people. I contemplated what type of companies this would work for. For me, I would need to join a small tech sales startup, that was still looking to get a sales strategy in place and as such have more of a timetable to hit the ground running. I work typically 10 hour days with no traditional 1 hr lunch and I organized my day extremely well so I could see myself pulling this off, splitting time between the two.

          If you really love your field and work remotely with no travel, you could make it work.

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