​Secretly juggling two full-time jobs, remote workers are making up to $600K — with help from a​n online community​

• Employees have taken advantage of remote work by maintaining two full-time jobs at the same time.
• A website called Overemployed offers advice in the form of articles and community tips for readers who want to pull this off.
• Workers have reportedly earned as much as $600,000, but this usually requires long hours.

Now we know why workers want to continue to work remotely — some have been working multiple full-time jobs simultaneously.

Call it beating the system or just being fast on your feet, but white-collar workers across several industries (often tired of being underpaid) are now working two full-time remote jobs with the help of a website guiding them through the ride.

The Wall Street Journal reported on how a website called Overemployed, founded in April by two tech workers, publishes articles that explain how to manipulate the system. Workers featured in the story claim they’re logging up to 100 hours a week between two jobs, and the payoff is big — some earn as much as $600,000 annualy.

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.

What is Overemployed.com?

On the site’s “my story” page, founder “Isaac” tells the tale of how he got the idea. Initially, he had planned to quit his full-time job after being passed over for a promotion and worried about the threat of being redundant. Instead, he stayed on while starting a new job as a “hedge against uncertainty during the pandemic.”

What had initially been planned as only a month of overlap turned into working two full-time jobs. While he claims to keep a 40-hour workweek between both gigs, he also said that he decided to stay on at both places until their next restricted stock units vested before negotiating a severance.

That led to netting him more than $300,000 in additional income, or as he puts it: “income I’d have forgone had I simply quit my job.”

Tips from members of the community

Now, the website is starting to pick up steam. It offers tips on how to keep expectations in check with your bosses, looking busy (but not being too busy), and managing your LinkedIn profiles.

Workers trying to manage two jobs can join the Discord server, a communication platform, which has grown in popularity since the Wall Street Journal report. Business Insider reported that the server had more than 2,300 members as of August 17, up from 766 on August 9.

On the Discord community, members share tips about their two-job experience. Business Insider, which verified the server, said posts come from members claiming to be in industries like software and development, security, and finance. People claim to hold jobs in different time zones.

The Journal listed a guide to working two careers at once, which includes avoiding startups, learning to delegate, keeping a low profile, and more.

And you thought managing a side hustle was ambitious….