Laissez-Faire

This recent BBC article annoyed me enough to warrant a moan about it on my blog. “More than a fifth of UK adults are not looking for work”. This reductive article cites a case of Can’t Work, Won’t Work – with links to an article listing tips on how to land a job. I’m more… Continue reading Not Looking For Work, Or No Work to Look For?

So there’s a few experiments that I have been playing with recently.  One of them is not working in the same time-zone as my employers. I wanted to take a break from my usual British views and climates, and decided to head somewhere warm and easy to get to, BUT I didn’t fancy taking my… Continue reading Working Abroad for the Overemployed

As promised, posting after having started my little experiment in contracting. Contracting is probably the best way of finding multiple jobs on top of “stable jobs”, speech marks because we all know that there’s no such thing as a stable permanent job anymore. Unfortunately, given the current economic situation – and the foreseeable future –… Continue reading Contracting and overemployment

The short and sweet answer is absolutely not. And neither should you. Let’s all be pretty frank and clear here, we as a generation cannot hedge our bets on so-called “permanent jobs”.  In the current economic climate, there is no such thing, which means there is a severe lack of stability and credibility on the… Continue reading Do I feel guilty for working multiple jobs?

This really short post is for the person who commented about getting references.  I read your post and it resonated with me – Live I think they were called.  If you happen to come about this post, I hope you find this useful. And please reach out if you see this and have any questions. … Continue reading References for the overemployed

So this post is directly for the person who asked about interviewing tips for overemployment – Michael I think it was, hello and thanks for asking. Anyone else interested in this too, please listen on. I’ll go into a bit of detail on how I did it, and I hope that you can hit the… Continue reading How to interview while overemployed

This post is regarding LinkedIn and other social media platforms in general. With LinkedIn you have to be very cautious about what you change your “main” job to.  I would very strongly suggest that when you have decided that you are about to start your overemployed journey, this is when you decide on what to… Continue reading LinkedIn for the Overemployed

There are plenty of people in the tech industry who are making ridiculous sums of money by having multiple jobs at the same time.  Listening to their stories might make you think that having more than one full-time job is only for the those in tech. Not True! You don’t have to learn how to… Continue reading Overemployment – you don’t have to be in tech