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Today, I triple dipped.

My main and primary job is very demanding but there are sometimes breaks where we are still expected to do work from home. It’s a considered a “mid-career” job so it’s demanding and the pay is terrible. Today was one of the rare “work from home” days. So naturally I looked to pick up a shift at my second job. My second job pays more. Hour for hour, maybe 6 or 7 times more (but job 1 is not really per hour). But I am subject to finding available shifts to pick up. It is 100% in person. If I wanted more out of this job, I would have to leave my mid-career job (which is shitty now but has a much better outlook). Today, they had a shift available. I picked it up. It’s been a slow shift so I was able to dedicate sometime to my 3rd job…


My main and primary job is very demanding but there are sometimes breaks where we are still expected to do work from home. It’s a considered a “mid-career” job so it’s demanding and the pay is terrible. Today was one of the rare “work from home” days. So naturally I looked to pick up a shift at my second job.

My second job pays more. Hour for hour, maybe 6 or 7 times more (but job 1 is not really per hour). But I am subject to finding available shifts to pick up. It is 100% in person. If I wanted more out of this job, I would have to leave my mid-career job (which is shitty now but has a much better outlook). Today, they had a shift available. I picked it up. It’s been a slow shift so I was able to dedicate sometime to my 3rd job (the side gig).

This 3rd job is 100% online. It’s a gig-based job and each gig takes about an hour. It pays somewhere in between job 1 and job 2. So in a quiet hour in job 1 or job 2, I try to sneak sometime to do as many gigs of job 3 as I can.

So today I hit the trifecta. I was “working from home” for job 1, physically present in job 2, and actively working on job 3. Triple dipping.

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