Gen Z are now ‘polyworking’ because holding down just one job doesn’t pay enough or give them the flexibility they want (msn.com) I wondered how people worked multiple jobs while working full-time since there are only so many hours in a day. It turns out that they work from home and work multiple jobs all at once, literally at the same time. I don't know how they get anything done. I think if they take an 8-hour shift, which I think is full-time, that's two jobs plus another 8 hours to sleep. But the article clearly says they're doing 3 or more jobs a day. It's making me exhausted just looking at it.
Doing 3 jobs a day would be hard to schedule if one was a full time 8 hour a day job unless your third job was something dopey at night for a few hours. In college in summers I worked a full time job during the day and then a part-time job in the evening. I worked 7-3:30 full time and then 4 to 8 in the evening. I suppose in theory I could have worked from like 9 to 1 in a bar or restaurant but it would have been the death of me because even when I went to like a movie, I was asleep ten minutes into it.
Working 2 jobs is horrible! I remember I used to drive a bread truck from 10pm to 4am and then worked at a bagel shop (which was actually one of the bread truck stops) from 5am to 11am. If only I had known I could have gotten loans instead of paying for college myself and then had YOU FOLKS pay it for me, I would have had a much easier life in my late teens/early 20s
Presumably they're doing more than one job literally at the same time. Like, answering the phone for tech support for one company while filling out reports or whatever for another company, maybe putting in 10 hours total and reporting an 8 hour day to both companies. Probably they would get fired if either company found out, but its pretty easy to get away with stuff like this when you work at home, no one is looking over your shoulder and the management don't have a realistic idea of how long certain tasks take to perform. And as long as each company feels they're still getting their money's worth, I don't see anything wrong with it. Sounds to me like a good way for exceptional people to get ahead in todays world where exceptionalism is so easily and often overlooked. These are probably the people who took up the slack for their less productive coworkers in a physical office setting but still all got payed the same regardless. Now they actually get payed more for being a faster worker. Also it could be they're salaried at one job, and as long as they do what they're sposed to, no one cares if they have extra time leftover for a second job. I'm salaried, and we have times where there just isnt anything to do. But also we have times where I'm working 60+ hours a week on the road... I have no desire for a second job.
when you're paid by the hour you're not paid by how much you get done. Most people who work in 8-hour shift only really put in about 2 hours worth of work most of the hourly paid jobs I had I was just paid to be there. For example I used to do security and at the same time because security is largely just watching empty buildings and making sure they don't burn down I could do some other work while I was there it wasn't exhausting I was just sitting at my post with my computer like I would if I was at home. They're doubling up on complicated jobs in the types of jobs that if it was taking place in an office most of the people would be slacking off.
What they're doing is not working two jobs separately but doing two jobs at the same time. This is why the work from home thing is a thing. They want to work more than one job.
The idea that a company would fire you for this is strange to me why would they care if the works getting done? Is it that they want two jobs worth of work out of you while only paying you for one? The only way this could be a problem is greed
I spose it depends on the job. If your job is to fill a quota or perform some objective number of tasks in the allotted time, probably no one cares if you finish early and do something else. But if your job is production oriented, like say there's a thousand reports that need to be edited and digitized, and there's 20 people doing it, and the company has other projects they'd like you start when you finish, and you could do 30 a day but your coworkers only do 20 a day and so you also only do 20 a day and you fill the rest of the time working a second job while getting payed for both, probably someone would be unhappy finding out you were doing that. Its not 'wrong' I don't think, but its not exactly 'honest' either, I guess? Maybe its just not loyal. IDK. Like I said, it depends on the job and what work specifically needs to be done.
I mean. If I think about all of the down time. Waiting for something to compile or download and it isn't enough time to do something else, but its enough time to add up. I'd probably have like 3 free hours left in my work day. I could probably squeeze something else in. Add to that the energy you have when younger. I could see it. I guess its like those folks that drive for uber and lyft.
