How This Gen X-er Doubled His Income, Paid Off Mortgage & Became Debt-free By Working 3 Remote Jobs
Doing a full-time job takes a lot out of a person, imagine doing three at the same time. This Gen X-er worked three full-time remote jobs at the same time and hasn't looked back. Here's his story.?
Who is the Gen X-er who worked 3 full-time remote jobs?
Joseph* (real name withheld), a 48-year-old Texas?(U.S.) network engineer, never intended to work three full-time remote jobs at the same time.But, according to papers obtained by Insider, he made a total of $344,000 doing just that last year.
While the stress is getting to him, he says the extra money has made a tremendous impact on his family and that he intends to keep it up for as long as he can. According to a document obtained by Insider, the extra revenue helped him pay off the remaining $129,000 on his mortgage in August 2023.
How did he manage this?
When Joseph had one job that earned $117,500 per year, he accepted a new remote position in the IT area that paid $120,000. But, before he left, he said a coworker persuaded him to stay and try to work both jobs at the same time.?
What did he do at the job??
Joseph stated that he was only performing four to five hours of "actual work" each week in his role at the time, which led him to believe that this was achievable.?
And if things were too much for him, he knew he could always quit one of the jobs."I hadn't really heard anyone doing this before," he explained to Insider. "My colleague mentioned it and I gave it a shot."
He stated that he began working the second job in May 2023, which originally needed 30 to 40 hours of extra work each week. Six months later, his new business made a strategic move that Joseph believed would jeopardize his position.?
He started seeking a new job.However, by the time he accepted a third job in February 2022, a full-time IT post paying $120,000 per year, his second job's workload had dropped from 30 to 40 hours per week to about five to eight.?
So he decided to try to handle all three jobs at the same time.?
Why did he hide his real identity?
Insider knows Joseph's real name, but he has suppressed it due to his fear of professional ramifications. He is one of many Americans who have taken on extra employment as a result of excessive inflation.?
He's also one of a smaller group of white-collar workers who secretly perform multiple full-time distant jobs to more than double their pay.?
However, the window for accomplishing this may be shrinking as many employers call remote employees back to the office and publish fewer totally remote employment.?
Others, notably in the technology business, have laid off people in distant positions.?
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