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Anyone here moonlight and do a secondary job similar to what they're already doing?

Phokus

Phokus

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I have a permanent job as an accountant/finance professional, but i'd like to maybe earn some extra dough on the weekends/nights doing some contract work. Not sure if there's opportunities in my line of work for something like that. Anyone else do it?

Edit: Guess i have to check my company's policies. Thanks Alfa.
 
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Conflict of interest is something that you have to be very aware.



I have a day job but run two small businesses on the side. The only way I was able to do that is the two businesses are completely different from my day gig..
 
I do a lot of web development and video editing at work. I also do a lot of the same on my own. Two things that help me:
1) I never do my outside jobs at work
2) I do work for the company's website. They do not sell websites.
 
Used to work a 2nd job bartending at another place, but now I'm getting more shifts at my primary work. Surprisingly my company frowns upon this and has fired people for it before, however giving my GM the heads up kept me in the clear.
 
Im not there yet but its not uncommon for medicine residents to moonlight given how little we get paid.
 
During the day, I dick around on the computer; but at night!

I dick around on the computer.


Obama pays me for this: sometimes at night, some times during the day.
When people are all like "so, what do you do for a living" I'm all like "um.. working isn't, you know, my thing man"
 
If you try to do the SAME work as your reg job as said that could be against company policy.

When I did Pharm work I also did Auto work on the side. I still do some auto work but mostly for family or family friends right now.
 
Phokus said:
I have a permanent job as an accountant/finance professional, but i'd like to maybe earn some extra dough on the weekends/nights doing some contract work. Not sure if there's opportunities in my line of work for something like that. Anyone else do it?

Edit: Guess i have to check my company's policies. Thanks Alfa.
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As somebody mentioned it could be against your work contract but usually they don't care if its just an occasional thing and it's not a huge drain on your time. Technically, I'm supposed to get any second job approved by my employer. Practically, I could do work on the side every now and then without anyone caring as long as I didn't do it on company time, using company resources, or do something that was in direct competition to my company.

Many of my coworkers do things once and a while on the side but none of them are official "jobs". Some draft up parts for people that want something custom made, one welds things for acquaintances, and another does general home maintenance. They just do work for people they know as a bit of extra money.
 
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I work full time during the day as in-house counsel for a startup. Once a week, I teach a patent law class at a nearby lawschool. I also do some pro bono work on the side.

Conflicts are a big deal in certain professions. Particulaly those where an employee owes a duty of loyalty to their employer (corporate lawyers and officers being the most obvious examples of such employees).

My advice? Before you engage in any moonlighting activities, clear those activies with your employer, and get the clearance in writing. This is one case where you want a hard copy, not an e-mail.
 
My first "real" job was architectural technician in an architect office...in other word drawing plans on AutoCAD. Mostly luxury houses plans and later commercial, industrial and institutional plans. Worked 40+ hours a week and got some plans on the side to do in the evenings and weekends.

Now i'm a project manager for the city I live in and still do 7-8 house plans a year in my evenings/weekends...extra money for extras!

I'm getting tired tho...working full week and adding another 20-25 hours a week to draw plans is nothing fun hahah...less time to game and see peeps...
 
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As somebody mentioned it could be against your work contract but usually they don't care if its just an occasional thing and it's not a huge drain on your time. Technically, I'm supposed to get any second job approved by my employer. Practically, I could do work on the side every now and then without anyone caring as long as I didn't do it on company time, using company resources, or do something that was in direct competition to my company.
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Perhaps this is a foreign term, but when you say "work contract," do you mean "employment agreement?"

The vast majority of jobs in the U.S. are "at will" positions, which generally means that there is no "employment contract" per se.
 
I used to do IT gigs on the side. I wouldn't mind doing it again, but I want to stay away from the "fix my PC" or "remove these viruses" type of work and focus on smaller businesses. Marketing myself is my biggest issue.

I have a friend who owns his own "consulting" business who frankly has no business doing the IT work he's doing, and he kept promising to throw me business. He never has thrown me business so generally, I now ignore his questions. 😀
 
Most big companies at least require disclosure of your outside moneymaking activities, but some just ban it. I think it depends on the field. I would imagine that finance/accounting firm wouldn't be very open to the idea, though.
 
last year I avg'd 1.22 hours per day of contract work.......

I work FT somewhere, as contracting doesnt get me health ins or a pension plan 🙂

its a nice bonuson top of my pay though.

I work in Public Sector IT though, so we arent 'competing' with anyone which makes it easier to do
 
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Yup - I'm an IT admin here, I do side jobs, mostly physical installs, sometimes security stuff. Boss said "this is your main job and you shouldn't be twilighting". Whatever.
 
It's pretty common among IT people to do some side work. I've never worked anywhere that has cared about IT people doing it. Although they did seem to care about others doing work on the side.
 
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Yup - I'm an IT admin here, I do side jobs, mostly physical installs, sometimes security stuff. Boss said "this is your main job and you shouldn't be twilighting". Whatever.
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lol my bosses asked that I make sure that my main job is my main priority

I've came in afterhours for problems, and left my moonlighting gig.

tell your boss to pay you more so you don't need to moonlight 😛
 
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