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They’re both officially 9-5 but pretty flexible, “bullshit jobs”, so the actual number of hours spent working varies a fair bit from week to week. Like the place that went 1 day per week WFH right before COVID, which I’ve since left, had maybe 2 hours of actual work and then the rest was just browsing /r/chapotraphouse, reading articles, organizing my file-sharing stuff, and the video forums on reddit like IdiotsInCars.
I’d say an average week I get about 30 hours of real work between the two, but I’ve definitely had the occasional week where it felt like I was doing 80 hours. It’s never felt impossible to manage though, there’s some relief to anxiety when I just reiterate to myself that it’s self-inflicted, if it actually gets bad I can just abandon the one I like less, etc
I should also mention that my manager at my primary gig is aware that I’m working another job, that’s probably important context. We’re actually pretty chummy and have done stuff together outside of work and so I’m aware he has his own business serving small business IT needs which takes up a lot of his day, and so he’s aware that I basically work another full time job or possibly “contract work” while I’m on the clock there. His response to me telling him was, as I recall: “Yeah, me too… Gotta earn that money, cash is king”
I think he’s starting to get suspicious of another guy in our department who’s just not pulling their weight at all. It’s pretty bad but I refuse to say whether I think it’s because they’re really bad at working two jobs because it really should be easy, and we really only brought them on because we needed role redundancy for regulatory reasons. I refuse to complain about them though, if they get fired for performance reasons I won’t complain either though.
His response to me telling him was, as I recall: “Yeah, me too… Gotta earn that money, cash is king”
lmao, respect. i haven’t liked all my bosses, but the ones who understand that i’m primarily there to get paid are at least relatable. the ones that espouse shit like community, mission, experience/career and prestige/science when i’m talking about compensation are all toxic AF and i am fake as fuck around them.
