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by kasey_junk 3552 days ago
Most employment agreements I've signed have at least a notification clause, if not an approval one.

Those may be illegal in your jurisdiction but in most places in the US they arent.

You should verify this before starting to look for part time work.

Respectfully, I'd argue that building your own skill set or business is going to be exponentially more valuable use for those hours anyway, unless you really need the cash.

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I ran a remote team doing part time work for about a year and a half while having a full time job. For the part time work, I acted as PM and somewhat of a TLM. I learned a ton about managing people and customers. I shut it down when I felt I wasn't learning as much (and learned a lot about how not to drop customers...). It was stressful and the incremental money was only $20k-30k/yr or so. Looking back it was definitely the exposure to new roles that was the main value.
> Respectfully, I'd argue that building your own skill set or business is going to be exponentially more valuable use for those hours anyway, unless you really need the cash.

I've been seeing a lot of arguments that instead say that 6-hour workdays would make employees more productive. Well...