• Sabin10@lemmy.world
    751·
    5 months ago

    Can’t afford 3 meals a day? Call it intermittent fasting. Can’t live off what you earn? Poly employment. What other awful reality can we rebrand?

    • radicalautonomy@lemmy.world
      42·
      5 months ago

      Hustle Nap: The three hours of sleep you get every day in-between your poly-employment.

      Note: Not to be confused with Hustle Coma, which is when you sleep through your entire one day off every other Wednesday.

      • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Hey, everyone deserves a recharge day… every other week and no more than that.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      35·
      5 months ago

      Don’t forget quiet quitting, aka “doing exactly what you’re paid to do and no more.”

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 months ago

      I’m sure everyone working multiple jobs is not in this situation but I know people who don’t need to work multiple jobs but do anyway. Hell, I’ve considered doing it myself and I make more than enough to support my family on one income. I’m working from home and the nature of my job has me sitting around waiting to answer questions fairly regularly. It would be pretty easy to land another remote gig and stack incomes with the goal of paying off my mortgage early. I haven’t seriously pursued it yet but I might. You never know what the future holds. Having a paid off house changes your income needs in a major way.

        • krashmo@lemmy.world
          5·
          5 months ago

          I never read the sub but I’ve seen the website that is run by (I believe) the same guy. It’s an interesting concept. Needless to say, corporations aren’t thrilled by the idea. They’d rather automate all of our jobs and keep the excess. All the more reason to consider having multiple jobs I suppose.

          • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
            1·
            5 months ago

            Exactly. I have two acquaintances who have contract based jobs in the EU and full time in Canada. Remote of course.

            I’ll probably do the same soon.

            • krashmo@lemmy.world
              2·
              5 months ago

              That seems like it would be tough working in vastly different timezones. I guess you don’t have to worry about meetings overlapping nearly as much but you’re basically signing up for 12 hour days everyday. I don’t think that’s worth the effort. EST and PST is about as far apart in time as I’d be willing to go.

              My issue is that the field I’m in is specialized enough and I’m visible enough that it would be tough to not get recognized at another company. I’d almost have to work for a direct competitor to my current employer and they all have a lot of employees that used to work at my current company. Getting caught and losing both jobs plus the ability to work at two companies in a fairly niche industry would be pretty shitty.

              • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
                2·
                5 months ago

                Oh no. As a contractor they have very set tasks with rarely any meetings to attend. The full time job is what allows them to do the contract job during roughly the same time. The contract employer is aware of their TZ difference.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    42·
    5 months ago

    Just remember. Minimum wage in 1960 was $1.00/hour and the price of a US home was about $11,000.00.

    A high school graduate on their first job could live with their parents and move into their own home in about 7 years.

    • radicalautonomy@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      The unofficial motto of polyamory is “Monogamy? In THIS economy?!?”.

      I’ve shared a home once with a partner and her girlfriend, but it didn’t go well; my partner was a deadbeat and not only never found a job the entire 10 months I lived with her, she never even tried to find one as far as I can tell. She didn’t even get child support from her kids’ dad. Her girlfriend and I each worked full-time to support her and her kids with a roof, utilities, food, fucking doctor’s visits…I had to pressure this woman into applying for food stamps ffs. I finally had had enough and told her to go move back in with her mother because I wasnt going to be paying for her any more. And then she and her girlfriend moved out together and got a place. Good riddance, and holy fuck was her girlfriend an enabler.

      I’m not against sharing a home with partners and metamours again in the future, mind you. I just intend to get to know everyone a lot better than I did in that circumstance.