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I mean, yes-ish? My friend has 5 and makes way more than any one job would ever be willing to pay.
More power to him. Is he burning bridges? Probably. Is he banking a ton of money? Yeah. Is anyone getting hurt? Not really, he gets his asks done and that's that - I'm not about to feel bad for a megacorp grossing hundreds of millions to billions a year.
That smells like BS. No one can work 5 full time jobs and not be committing fraud somehow. Paying someone overseas to do the work, plagiarizing it, submitting the same work to more than 1 of them etc.
Believe what you will, I work multiple myself and could easily pick up more. It's easy in software engineering at large companies with disorganized practices. I even got "exceeds expectations" at one and a raise recently. I am doing all the work myself, no hiring out. They're all in very different industries and use different tech platforms, so there is no real copying of work.
Ok, and you've never delayed a meeting or communications with 1 company because you were working on another?
No, I wouldn't feel right. Worst case is I just attend both simultaneously.
If you can do it and not impact anyone at any of those jobs you’re a wizard.
I honestly think I just got lucky with the jobs. Low meetings, rarely overlap, largely autonomous, fully remote.
I could probably make as much or more working one single job at Big Tech and selling my soul, but there is something freeing in making a percentage of that much but spread out / diversified.
If I ever get laid off at one, I probably have others. If an acquisition or reorg happens and I become redundant at one, at least I have the others. Is this whole situation ideal for all? Probably not, but there is a bit of mental comfort and freedom it gives me that I really can't put a price on.
I love the work I do and the people I work with, I'll put in a 20+ hour day if I have to, to make sure I hold up my end of the deal - but I'm lucky and I really haven't had to (yet).