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Ah yes, the super-informative anecdotal sample size of...
*checks notes*
... one.
*checks notes again*
Eh, an unreliable source at that
I'm mean, there's a part of me that would say "fuck yeah, I would get a second job and get two incomes". The other part of me is really sleepy, so I'm honestly not sure who would win this internal debate.
Probably the sleepy bit for the first few months as you recover from a lifetime of wage slavery. Then the second job part comes along, once you're in the right place and you figure out what you would love to do all day.
Yeah, beside having an "official" job, I think people can still have personal projects that are great for society if they don't have to work all week for money.
you'd be sleepy, perhaps for months or years, until you realize that a fulfilling life is not one spent in oblivion and you find a better way to use your time!
You didn't report that you don't have a manager is a reason to fire you, but doing two jobs is both easy to find (if they're looking) and fraud.
Having two jobs is fraud? What....?
Have you never heard of Overemployment? There are people out there working multiple easy WFM jobs and just raking in three incomes.
You're allowed to have two jobs lol
It's not fraud but it's a breach of contract, unless you find a different company that's ok with you having a full time job and working after hours, and you clear the air with your existing employer.
If you're found doing this, good luck explaining your next employer why they can't ask around for references.
It's really not, at least not in my state. I don't really have a "contract" per se, just an offer letter and a set of company policies, many of which are legally unenforceable. I know multiple people at my company that have second jobs (i.e. a rental property, uber/doordash, etc), they just do them outside of normal work hours and certainly don't share equipment between the various jobs.
And for references, I would never list my current employer anyway, because then they'd know I'm looking for a job. I might list an HR contact to verify employment and job title (if they need that, which is rare), but I'm much more likely to list someone unconnected to my current job as a reference. Most jobs I've applied to haven't bothered asking for references, and my company certainly doesn't bother with it either, either you get hired based on your own merits in the interview process, or you don't. We do a background check once we send an offer letter to make sure you're not a serial killer or something, but that's as far as we go.
That's why it's safer to get an other job asap. Just in case you lose the first one.