“Sometimes they log on to two meetings at once… There’s even a website, Overemployed, that aims to rally workers around the concept of steadily holding multiple jobs, framing as a way to wrest back control after decades of stalled wages.”

The WSJ

“He spends his days switching off among 3 laptops -work personal, and work job 2….To maintain separation and secrecy, other workers swear by color-coding browser windows or using external microphones that can be muted without alerting others on a video call. One worker manages double meetings by logging on to one via computer and other via his phone.”

WSJ

“When the worker gets called on simultaneously in both meetings – it happens -he drops one call, answers the other’s query and then pops back onto the dropped call.

Sorry, he had a network issue. What was the question again?

Even better: Evade the meeting altogether. He often tells colleagues he doesn’t think their issue requires a call, and he can help them faster on Slack.

WSJ

The Wall Street Journal verified the workers’ accounts by examining offer letters, employment contracts, concurrent pay stubs and corporate emails. Most of them say they are on track to earn a total of $200,000 to nearly $600,000 a year, including bonuses and stock. They have paid off chunks of student-loan debt, plumped their kids’ college-savings accounts and bought everything from an engagement ring to a sports car with the extra cash.

The money is incredible, the 29-year-old software engineer says.

WSJ

The article has generated 586 comments thus far. Software development, man. That’s the dream.

This blog was named the “best alpha male site for techies” at a large symposium -which makes me proud. It’s all about pushing the limits here. “Techies” can mean anything from programmers, web and app developers, entrepreneurs and VCs.  Being the leader of the geek squadron means I can teach technology workers things that Tim Ferriss doesn’t. And I am a Ferriss follower, I listen to his podcasts and bought all of his books. What I write about is a little different.

I teach “Heartless of Gold”. It’s a concept never talked about before. It’s having the heart to put yourself first before the world.

With the “Best of ” of course, comes great responsibility. If I’m at SVOD , Vator LA or PreMoney SF I have to set an example of best practices, integrity and reliability.

Reading list:

1. The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America, by Rick Waltzman

2. The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop it, by Steven Clifford

If you haven’t read this book, you can get a taste of it in a WSJ review by Phillip Delves Broughton (Aug. 1st, 2017)

“Apart from aliens from the galaxy Zork-El, corporate directors are the only sentient group who think that CEO pay levels today are justified. Board members-and no doubt well-heeled CEOs-suffer from several delusions, inn Mr. Clifford’s view. Among them, that the CEO is as important to the performance of a company as a quarterback is to a football team. Not true, he says. Many are no more significant than the water boy.” -PDB