Ask HN: Redditor claims to have 5 IT jobs simultaneously. Feasible?

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9 points·HiroProtagonist··10 comments

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.

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.

I wonder what kind of contracting that is. Me, and others in my team, proactively improve things if we run out of tasks. I work all the hours that I bill, anything else seems like fraud.

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?

If you read the posts, you’ll see each individual job takes very little time for OP.

> 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.

He also mentions he's on a corp-to-corp arrangement, which means the "employer" is invoiced by the "employee"'s company.

The pay is likely going to an LLC via its EIN rather than to a person (him/her) via his/her SSN.

Some companies, Google being one of them, allow you to opt-out of sharing any data with Equifax. Perhaps there's a more 'global' way to prevent that data sharing, too

This HNer claims to have three such jobs:

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

It's bullshit.

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