I always hear people say “I’m working three jobs just to make ends meet” but what are these jobs?? How do they fit? What IS your schedule?
I always hear people say “I’m working three jobs just to make ends meet” but what are these jobs?? How do they fit? What IS your schedule?
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Adjunct professor. Evenings.
Not now, but i did my 9-5, then worked retail from 6 to 10 three days a week, then weekends did 8 hours each day.
It’s been a few years, but I worked a F/T job 4 days ( security in a club) a part time ( National Guard) and a per diem ( EMS) for a few years.
At one point in my life I was a travel agent by day, I worked security for events as needed, I also answered the phones at a club on weekends.
Both retail/customer service, one morning one afternoon
A guy I work with was doing crazy shit. He had automated most of his job of 15 years so would handle client meetings in the morning for that starting around 0600, then he would work for until about 1700 every day, and then he would go to the airport and load freight until 0000 or later. On top of that he has four school-aged children. He’s said he doesn’t care how much he needs to work during the week as long as he has his weekends and biannual vacations.
Administrative assistant full time + part time retail associate in the evenings and on weekends
I work full time as a housekeeper (typically 6 hour shifts) and then work at a bookstore on my days off, typically 7-8 hours a shift.
I once had 4 different part-time admin jobs (all working for small businesses who didn’t need full-time admin support). It worked out to about 60 hours a week total and I just negotiated with each to make the schedules fit.
I have also worked nights and weekends as a catering server (mostly weekends) on top of a full-time office job.
The same job (IT engineer) for 2 different companies…
More or less I never quit my first job when I got hired for the 2nd….
Since the first job was well established enough that the computers just don’t crash… Easy enough to do both of them at the same time.
When it was me, I was a nanny all week and a waitress all weekend. (Weekend gigs are hard to get since they usually have a lot of customers – and tips are how you get paid. When you waitress you usually have to pick up a couple of during the week shifts where there’s not many tips and you do a lot of work around the restaurant like cleaning, refilling stuff, scrubbing bathrooms and then you get to have a weekend night so you get good tips)
I knew a man that was an immigrant that worked 2 back to back shifts (7-3 then 3-11) at a plastics factory.
Lots of people did Uber since you can make your own hours.
A lot of crazy answers here, so here’s a chill one: I work at the mail center and as a Spanish tutor in my college campus. 8 hours for the first and 5-10 hours for the second each week.
Most my career I’ve had a full time job and a PRN job.
I worked three 12 hour shifts a week as a nurse and had a PRN job working 8 hour shifts.
For a while I worked m-f 9-4 as my main job as a nurse practitioner and every weekend I worked a 12 hour shift at a PRN job as a RN.
Now I work a 9-4 work from home as a nurse practitioner, and write books on the side.
It wasn’t to make ends meet, I really don’t know why I did it, I just like having multiple sources of income.
At one point I juggled jobs in a theme park, delivery service, and retail. It was a very delicate balance
it common here even for older adults (versus younger people doing gig work to make extra on the weekends). Few jobs offer full time hours so they work multiple park time jobs and shuffle their schedules. They might work 3 days at one job, weekends at the other, and a couple of evenings a week at a 3rd. For a period when I was in my 20s, I worked 10pm to 6am, and then went across the street to work 6am to 2:30 pm. Then I went home and slept and did it all over again. Both retail jobs. Fun times.
Both security jobs. One is 3 to 11p M-F. The other is 8a to 4p on Sunday.
I sell snowboards during the winter, tune em during the summer, I bar tend in the evenings. Bar tending earns more, but I’d rather talk about snowboards all day.
M-F 8-5 at regular job. Maybe weekend + evening jobs possibly in retail and hospitality. Maybe night shift at a plant or factory plus any odd jobs available. Add in Uber and Door Dash type gigs. No social/family life. All time not working is spent on eating, sleeping, or personal hygiene.
I’m a Nurse Practitioner in hospital medicine and work at 5 different hospitals. One is a FT job and one is a PT job and the others are fill in work. Most people in the medical field work at numerous hospitals… I work 12 hour days and you always think you’ll only work three days a week which is full-time, but then you start working for five days a week.
I work 8-3 M-F as an assistant teacher in a public school and then 4-7:30 as a figure skating coach MTWTh. Then I have longer coaching days on Sat & Sun
I freelance as a tech virtual assistant. I design and implement tech stacks for neurodivergent small business owners. I do everything from building websites to setting up Google workspaces to setting up email marketing systems, integrations with third-party tools, you name it.
I also work part-time at a coffee shop because I need to get out of the house and be around people for a while. It’s kind of like social time for me.
I work about 45 hours a week total by choice. I could make a lot more if I wanted to, but I’m tired and I don’t feel like it.
8-5 with contractors, architects, and engineers on projects. Usually ones in mid construction needing changes as the project progresses.
530-9 or later working at the famous brown truck shipping company UPS.
Have the night job to cover my insurance costs; such an American excuse. But I save a lot more using my night job’s insurance plans rather than go it myself to cover me and the family under health, dental, and vision.
Not sure if this counts, because it was all for the same family, but I was a livestock manager, gardener, and chauffeur all at once.
Not anymore but I was teaching high school from 8:00 to 4:00 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday I would do my shift at a bakery from 5:00 till about 10:00, on Saturday mornings I was doing SAT group tutoring, and Saturday afternoon from 12:00 to 5:00, then Sunday from 7:00 a.m. until 3:00, I was selling product for the same bakery at farmer’s markets.
Math teacher by day, freelance programmer by night. I left tech for education willingly, and I don’t regret it. Now I only do extra work when I want to, and I only work on stuff that I think is interesting.
Not only that, now I don’t have to worry about getting laid off every time some rich idiot says something on Twitter and the stock market tanks. I get 3 months off in a row a year, so I get to really deep dive cool projects I wouldn’t have had time to work on before either. It’s actually kind of funny; I write more actual code now than I did back then even though it’s not even my main job anymore lmao
I used to work at a restaurant 4× a week, cleaned a health center weekly and babysat 5x a week while going to school. That was a rough period in my life.
Years and years ago, I worked in a school’s financial aid office and at Toys R Us. At another point, I was a nanny and I ran a lunch program for senior citizens, and did some babysitting and housecleaning on the side. Nowadays, I’m a domestic violence and sexual assault victim advocate and I have my own side business selling things I make.
I work 2 weeks on/off on a tugboat and sometimes I work on the local ferry when they need a relief.
My main job isn’t something you can just do but my second job is being a mobile welder
When I was a paramedic (27+ years), I also did part-time work for a company that provided stand by EMS for sporting events, local festivals, and an occasional film crew. Also worked a lot of HighSchool football games. Those were fun. Not nearly the same stress level as a 4 car pile up or a bad shooting.
I manage a 40 person team of money processors by day and a hotel night auditor at night. I don’t any meaningful work at either job.
Civilian engineer at the Air Force.
Civil engineer officer in the Air National Guard.
I work full time as a Title Abstractor. I do remote online notary both privately and for my company. I’m a realtor and I own a cleaning service and a staging/decorating service. Most of that is taken care of during my office hours; I show homes and do consults on nights and weekends.
I have a full time work from home job in healthcare M-F and a part time grocery retail job on the weekends for supplemental income (originally started this job in high school). Both offer PTO, so I don’t necessarily work every single day. I’ve had more rigorous schedules with multiple jobs in the past, so I feel almost privileged with what I have now.
My first wife loved to outspend our budget every year, so I had to keep getting extra jobs. One full time, two part time. She didn’t work. I did have the housework and at least have the nurturing of the children. After 23 years, she ran off with my ex-best friend. Sounds like a novela on tv.
Not me but my 40 year old son. M-F 9 to 3 he works as the assistant baker in a bakery and then works 4 to 8:30 in the kitchen of a local physical rehabilitation facility. On non summer Saturdays he works at the rehab 9 to 5 and on summer Saturdays he works at a farmers market selling his baked goods 9 to 12 and then goes to work at the rehab 1 to 6. On Sundays he gets paid to video our church’s service in the morning and post it on YouTube for parishioners who couldn’t be there in person and then he goes to work in the rehab’s kitchen. He also bakes and sells his own brand of dog treats and lastly he dog sits at his house for friends who’re out of town. The hardest working guy I know!
Monday-Friday teach middle school from 8 am-4pm
Tuesday/Thursday – babysit from 430-930
Monday/Wednesday/Friday – Tutor from 415-530
Saturdays/Sundays – wait tables from 9 am-3pm
Not a job per se, but during the day i’m a venture capitalist billionaire and at night I’m a mask wearing crime fighting vigilante.
Professional job during the day, waiting tables on weekend nights.
During Covid I worked my regular 9-5 office job during the week, then picked up nights on Friday and Saturday at a plant. Fridays sucked but holy shit I saved so much money. I got a better paying full time job now and luckily make more than I did at those 2 jobs combined.
Baker and soon to be bouncer I hope.
Cybersecurity by day, musician by night.
I work 3 days a week in admin for a private school, I substitute the other 2 weekdays in the local public schools, and in the evenings and on weekends I work for another private school in residence life. All of those jobs are classified as part time but I work around 50 hours per week.
Durring the 2008 recession, I was working full time at Starbucks and Papa Johns Pizza. I would often work from 6am to 1am. When I finally got a better paying 9-5 job, I worked a second part-time job waiting tables at night. 4 promotions later, I now work a second job on the weekends at a men’s clothing store that specializes in office attire.
I used to work 40-50 hours M-F as an engineer and then work weekends in my beauty shop.
I used to work at a hospital M-F 8-4, retail at a mall Sat & Sun all day, and then babysit in the evenings.
Up until recently, I was a caregiver during the day and waitress at night. I worked Monday thru Friday, 8am to 4pm as a caregiver, then worked Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 6pm to 11pm/midnight as a waitress, and often doubles on weekends.
Probably mostly gig jobs, with some half time regular work. If someone does 15hr at a coffeeshop, and does Doordash, and Instacart, that’s 3 jobs.
I just got a job at a big box store. Im in my 30s and in engineering school. Since the economy took a shit my odds of an internship evaporated in november since my gpa isnt awesome.
I work worh a guy who is an engineer AND works at the big box store im at and tbh i might do that to get my loans paid down when i graudate
I’m in grad school now, so my class schedule (Mon: 1-7, Wed: 1-4, 1hr commute each way) has made it difficult to get a “regular” job.
Mainly I’ve been teaching English at an English-language school part time, but next week I’m starting at a bookstore a couple days a week.
Full-time in commercial composting (M-F, 7-3, 4, or 5 depending on the day) and food delivery (Doordash on Friday & Saturday nights & Instacart on Sundays).
Lead cook and baker. 3am-12pm baker, 3pm-10pm Lead cook. 6 days a week, occasionally I get to only work one job that day
When I worked three jobs, I worked in childcare. One job was weekday mornings, with preschool kids. They left a noon. One was weekday afternoons, from 2 pm to 6:30. I picked up elementary school kids in a van and took them to daycare after school. One was Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings, at a church nursery.
Technically I also was a DJ for a swing dance club every other Saturday too.
Technically I work two jobs. I’m the assistant starter at a country club golf course, but I also caddy a few times a week.