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A healthcare worker is making $330,000 secretly juggling two full-time jobs.
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RTO, layoffs, and employee tracking have forced him to adapt.
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The extra income has brought financial security, but longer hours have also fueled burnout.
Editor’s note: In February 2025, Business Insider wrote about a medical professional named “Daniel,” who was secretly juggling two full-time remote jobs and on track to earn about $280,000. (Daniel is a pseudonym, but Business Insider has verified his identity and employment.) Read that story here. In a recent interview, Daniel shared how his overemployment situation has evolved.
When Business Insider spoke with Daniel last year, secretly juggling two full-time remote healthcare jobs was relatively straightforward.
Since then, one employer has required him to come into the office a couple of days each month. The other one is now tracking how he spends his time. To make matters worse, Daniel’s working longer than ever — going from roughly 40 to 50 hours a week across both jobs to as many as 60.
Yet Daniel is still secretly juggling both jobs. In fact, he’s on track to earn roughly $330,000 this year — more than ever before.
“We go to the grocery store, we buy whatever we need, we never tap into credit cards,” said Daniel, who’s in his 40s and lives in Texas. “So it’s kind of surreal to see the struggles around me.”
Daniel’s experience reflects a broader shift in the overemployment movement. In recent years, secretly juggling multiple jobs has become considerably more difficult amid return-to-office mandates, a tougher job market, layoffs, and new employee-monitoring measures.
Yet changing workplace norms have not stopped workers from juggling multiple full-time jobs. Several of them told Business Insider they have simply had to change how they approach the practice.
Some have embraced AI tools to work more efficiently, while others have adapted in other ways.
For workers like Daniel, the financial rewards remain powerful enough to keep them going.
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Adapting to overemployment’s new challenges
After one of Daniel’s employers began requiring some in-person work, he began bringing his other job’s laptop to the office, carefully squeezing in work there when time allowed.
The arrangement is possible in part because his second job has become much less demanding over time. Additionally, Daniel said some coworkers know he has outside work, which has made him less concerned about being discovered. In his experience, they seem more concerned with the quality of his work than the hours he spends on it.
