I already work full time and have very generous leave, so I started up a side business that brings in around £15-£20K a year for 10 days work (using my annual leave), but can't expand past that (don't ask for details).

I'm now being offered a third, similar role that only pays £630 for 2 days work a year, doing something I love.

Part of me thinks - great - that's £630 that I wouldn't have otherwise, but part of me thinks, why bother (especially after tax). Any thoughts?

Does anyone has recently any experience in being a OE on outside ir35 as a software developer meanwhile having a full time job? How did it go for you and what are the risks?

Has anyone in who is OE taken out an EV salary sacrifice through both J1 and J2?
Any risks or issues I should be aware of, particularly around insurance, tax/HMRC, or either employer finding out about the other job?

I'll keep it simple. I want to become OE. J1 requires me to be SC cleared.

I earn 49.5k in J1, is it still worth being OE will tax be too high to actually realise the benefit.

Secondly, will my J2 need to be outside IR35?

Thanks

Currently behind on mortgage payments and need a J2 or more to supplement my shortfalls.

Current role is circa £65k per annum.

Interested in pretty much anything remote based or WfH on a zero hour contract.

Thanks

hi all,

currently on full-time remote role in UK. dont want to risk it and get second job in UK. aiming on getting remote job in EU - no visa required.

was wondering how does it all work - do i need to open bank account in country where my company will be based? work there for a little, rent - until i get all sorted and look like im residing there? probably need to get residency address for a bank / post as well

of course i wont disclose that im working in UK for the obvious - so just checking any loopholes that i might miss or could be traced down

any advice? anyone in similar situation and got maybe 2 jobs in EU, could advise?

I wanted to share this with the Reddit community because your previous posts/comments helped me realise that I may have been targeted by a recruitment scam. Thank you to everyone who shared their experiences — it potentially saved me from losing a significant amount of money.

I applied for a Senior Accountant position advertised by Regent Hiring, with a salary of £55,000–£65,000.

Job advert:
Regent Hiring – Senior Accountant job advert

Senior accountant

I completed a pre-screening interview and subsequently received an email from someone calling himself James Kingston, Careers Advisor.

The email told me that I had performed exceptionally well and was one of their strongest candidates. It then said the only area requiring attention was my lack of regulatory certifications.

They recommended two specific courses:

• ICAM – CIFA
• Accounting Principles & Compliance in Practice (APCP)

They then instructed me to enrol on one of the courses, update my CV to show the qualification as "in progress", and send them the updated CV together with my enrolment letter.

The email stated that they would submit these documents to their senior, who would then submit my CV to the hiring manager after verification.

The email I received was from:

James Kingston
Careers Advisor
Email: james@regenthire.co.uk
Regent Hiring: regenthiring.com
Telephone: 020 3310 6273 / 020 3310 6298

At first, this seemed completely legitimate because the recruitment process and communication appeared professional.

However, I started researching the company and the course provider and found multiple Reddit users describing very similar experiences involving Regent Hire and candidates being directed towards paid courses.

That's when I became extremely concerned.

What made me suspicious

The job itself is for a Senior Accountant, with responsibilities such as:

• Management accounts
• Statutory accounts
• Month-end/year-end
• VAT
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Financial reporting
• Audit support

Yet a paid AML/regulatory certification was presented as the missing requirement preventing my CV from being submitted to the hiring manager.

I am an experienced accounting professional, so this raised questions for me.

Thank you Reddit ❤️

I want to specifically thank the people who posted about their experiences before me.

Those posts made me stop and investigate before proceeding further.

I found other candidates describing similar situations, including people who said they had actually paid for courses after being told they were needed for the recruitment process.

I'm now keeping all emails, job adverts, messages and other evidence and will be reporting my experience to the appropriate authorities.

I'm posting this mainly as a warning to other jobseekers.

If you've had a similar experience with Regent Hiring / Regent Hire, or were directed to Accredited Finance Courses, please share your experience below. It would be useful to establish how many people have encountered the same process.

Please don't send money to anyone connected with a job application without independently verifying the employer, recruiter and requirement first.

I currently work in the public sector and was thinking about if it is a good idea to look into becoming OE.

So I am in a very comfortable position, where I am a postdoc fully remote with a lot of freedom and low workload and do some part-time research consulting work in my home country, in total earning around 65k. Now I got a job offer that will need me to be in a London office 3 days for a pay of 100k. The pay alone does not worth it for me to relocate and return to the office, BUT I could easily manage keeping my current setting. I figure the 165k total may be just about worth the trouble of relocation and going to an office.

However, I am not too familiar with how things work in the UK. I think the new guys' HR would figure it out rather easily, as I would not be able to provide a P45, and I guess they will eventually figure out my tax code which will indicate I have multiple incomes/higher income than what they pay me. How do people go about this?

EDIT for clarification: J1 is UK postdoc with a lot of freedom and flexibility, fully remote. J2 is a low effort foreign part-time job. J3 would be a 3 day on-site role in London. J3 expects me to resign from J1,J2, and I worry the lack of P45 and my "higher" tax code will be a red flag,.

J1 is in financial services, 9-5 and 3 days per week in the office. Business analysis/product owner type role. All PAYE.

A potential J2 has turned up in the horizon in the form of remote coaching in a field that I’ve recently studied. Also PAYE and I can front-load my weeks with work. Nothing to do with FS.

Thoughts about this becoming my first overemployment setup?

I’m dropping my J1 Perm for another OIR35 Contract and my daily standup clashes at both companies.

I’ve been at my first contract for almost 3 months - daily standup and less than 4 hours of extra meetings a week. I use AI for all the code, my only input is the theory around system design/infra. I complete my weekly work within probably 6-8 hours.

I’ve started my new contract and the daily standup is the same time. Haven’t been invited to any other meetings yet. I was thinking I should probably buy wired earphones and have one in each ear.

Existing contract is very twitchy on meetings. I’m sometimes called if I’m 1 minute late which pisses me off and I want to address it with my hiring company as it not how an OIR35 contractor should be treated.

What’s the best approach to manage this going forward?

TLDR: J1 perm + J2 OIR35 Contract. Leaving J1 Perm as it was less than 1 hours work a week for a new J1 OIR35 Contract. Best way to manage meetings and is there any equipment recommended?

I have been in an office accounts apprenticeship for around 7 months now. I have seen the ideas of having multiple jobs and them being remote on the side. In my current job there is often very little for me to do which gives me a lot of free time to be potentially productive towards something else Additionally, pay as as apprentice isn’t the greatest. Has anyone got any tips/ suggestions for me about looking at getting J2 alongside my in office job (not sure if that is going to be difficult don’t mind doing some hour). Any help on this would be much appreciated thanks.

Hi all — new to the sub, so apologies if this has been asked a hundred times. I've had a dig around but most of what I've found is US-focused and I'm after UK-specific input.

Where I'm at:

- Full-time software developer, fully remote, permanent contract

- Comfortable with my current workload — realistically I could absorb more

- Solid skill set, been doing this a while (happy to share stack in comments)

What I can't figure out:

1. Where are UK people actually sourcing a J2? Straight applications, agencies, contract work via umbrella/ltd, or something else entirely?

2. How are you handling the contract side? Most UK contracts I've signed have some flavour of exclusivity or "must notify your employer of other work" clause. Do people get it varied, go contract for J2 to sidestep it, or just accept the risk?

3. Tax/PAYE — anything I should sort before I'm two payslips deep, or does HMRC just handle it via the tax code?

4. Day-to-day logistics — overlapping stand-ups, two calendars, two laptops. What's the setup that actually works?

5. Anything you'd do differently if you were starting from scratch?

To be clear, I'm not looking to coast — I intend to do the hours for both. I'd just rather be sensible about it than wing it and blow up two jobs at once.

Any pointers, wiki links, or "read this first" threads much appreciated.

Curious what everyone’s favourite OE combination is and why.
Personally, I really like 1 permanent role + 1 contract. The permanent role gives me things like paid annual leave, sick pay, pension contributions, learning budgets, paid certifications/courses and the general stability that comes with being an employee. Then the contract gives me the higher earning potential and flexibility.
I’m interested to hear what setup others prefer. For example:

2 permanent roles
2 contracts
Permanent + contract
Contract + contract-to-hire
Any other combination

If you’ve tried different setups, which did you prefer and why?

Was it because of:
Better income?
Lower meeting load?
Easier to manage?
Better benefits?
Lower risk if one role ends?
Better work-life balance?
I’m still relatively new to OE and curious to hear what experienced people have settled on after trying different combinations and what trade offs you’ve found