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I had worked for a software company (1995) where a sales guy was hired at, full salary/ commission to sell our products. Worked remotely due to client visits, maybe one day/ week in office. He also arranged this kind of job this with two other companies, so he was pulling 3 full time paychecks and commission simultaneously on whatever he sold and none of the 3 companies were wiser.
how was he getting commissions from 3 different companies simultaneously? Did the customer receive the order 3 times?
I'm not saying people don't try to cheat the system by working more than one job at a time. But no one is earning commission from multiple companies for selling the same product, the commission gets paid after the company receives and ships the order (in some industries, when they have been paid by the customer).
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One Full time job plus one or more part time gigs is the way to do it. Let the part time jobs know your schedule is complicated and you can't take calls when ever. So you can always be available for the FT job.
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I’ve done it before several times. In most cases both jobs weren’t aware of each other. I’m a senior software engineer so it’s very very very rough. Whenever I’ve done it I’ve had little to no time to myself. So the burnout is serious. And of course the people I worked with notice a drop in my performance. A few time the job found out and I was fired on the spot.
It’s only good if you have 2 jobs with low workloads. Or management workloads. You really can’t be a high performer on the job. So you have to be somewhat average on both jobs. I have noticed whenever I do commit to 1 job I just kill it. Since I’m so use to managing multiple jobs I usually just blow a job away and over perform in projects. Leading me to get bore, leading me to get a 2nd job. Now I have more to focus on, so im content with one iob and I’ve saved enough money
I’ve done it before several times. In most cases both jobs weren’t aware of each other. I’m a senior software engineer so it’s very very very rough. Whenever I’ve done it I’ve had little to no time to myself. So the burnout is serious. And of course the people I worked with notice a drop in my performance. A few time the job found out and I was fired on the spot.
It’s only good if you have 2 jobs with low workloads. Or management workloads. You really can’t be a high performer on the job. So you have to be somewhat average on both jobs. I have noticed whenever I do commit to 1 job I just kill it. Since I’m so use to managing multiple jobs I usually just blow a job away and over perform in projects. Leading me to get bore, leading me to get a 2nd job. Now I have more to focus on, so im content with one iob and I’ve saved enough money
I am doing this now. Started out unintentionally where I got laid off, but got an immediate high paid, low stress contractor role that is a 3 month maternity backfill. Another contract role came up (all while I've been trying to find my next permanent role), and it's worked out great.
A good way to test these waters, when changing companies, simply don't tell company A you are quitting... Start at company B, and see how it goes. If it becomes too much, quit company A, which was the original plan anyway.
It helps if both roles are:
1)remote
2) 1099 (not W-2)
3) pacific/eastern time zone
I'm sure this happens all the time. My company has been hiring contractors from Texas at $85/hour. A lot of them can't be found during the work day or reply to messages hours later. And so we get rid of them after a few months to hire more. It's really tough finding good workers in IT.
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