HACKER Q&A
📣 HiroProtagonist

Redditor claims to have 5 IT jobs simultaneously. Feasible?


Redditor claims to have 5 IT jobs simultaneously. Feasible?


  👤 PaulHoule Accepted Answer ✓
Yes. Stories like this get in the news all the time.

The fact is that most people are so bad at interviewing compared to people who are good at interviewing that people who are good at interviewing are in demand.


👤 turtlebits
Absolutely, if you're a contractor, you're can easily go radio silent and just sit there doing nothing until someone gives you a specific task to work on. You're generally not part of planning or engineering, and pure implementation IME is only like 1/4 of an FTEs time.

👤 jrjarrett
I’ve been reading about these people doing “OE” and I don’t understand how.

My one current job takes up EVERY MOMENT of the time I am working and then some. I have no mental bandwidth to do anything else.

How does one do this?


👤 lesuorac
> I have 5 full time jobs, 4 of which are fortune 500 companies.

I wonder at what point Equifax/The Work Number rats him out for having 5 companies report salary data for the same time range.


👤 aliswe
This HNer claims to have three such jobs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33089003


👤 DoItToMe81
It's bullshit.