r/overemployed

OE for most of my career with over 7 full time jobs at one point. Scaled down to just 2 jobs after hitting my money milestones (paid off cars, and mortgages, 529s etc).

Was cruising with just 2 jobs for a bit taking it easy but was getting a little bit of that itch back so I started interviewing and man do I love interviewing. Learning how to interview is THE most valuable skill ever.

Start dates of 12, and 26 at 2 separate companies for j4, j5. I love love LOOOOOVEEEE q4.

Everything is spaced out perfectly. Thanksgiving, people leaving for Christmas, and December slump. I’ll be able to do good work, and drop my current j1, and j3 in Jan.

Is anyone have J1 with something like VP title and J2 as Network Admin or something in that vein? Curious to see how you keep things straight.

Or even a completely different career track for J2 or J3?

I say this as someone who used to get messaged once or twice a week from recruiters in 2021-2022 era to having not a single DM from a recruiter between 2025-2026.

The market was basically DEAD.

However, since July-August, me and my close friends have been getting DMed again from recruiters, but the interesting thing is that it’s at all these overblown valuation VC funded companies. I guess they’re capitalizing on the insane valuations. I know options are basically going to be useless when/if the company stock comes crashing down.

However, I’m just in it for the cashhh baby.

Anyone else seeing this? Mostly in AI/SWE jobs.

Ps, a lot of people had advised me not to join a YC company due to the work, but honestly, it’s not too bad. The founders are dumb as hell but somehow raised $15M+ for a shitty product but decent idea. All this to say, don’t completely disregard YC companies.

There is a Workday notice saying they are expanding the Workday Connector for VOIE to support multiple providers and it will replace the Equifax Verification that is currently enabled. The new connector will become available this month and Equifax verification integration will be disabled in January 2027.
They are saying the new Workday connector will save time and money and gives employees fast access to verifications and shares employee information only when authorized by employees.
What does this mean for OE? Does it mean they are moving away from TWN and using Workday verification? What if J1 and J2 payroll and HCM are both through WD?

Specifically Cad heavy roles? Been working as a PM in construction management for a while, plenty of hands on time in the trades/ oil and gas, very familiar with how things work.

Also pretty good with CAD.

Been eyeballing some J2s for just CAD, one specifically asks for LI. Is there anyone outsourcing J2s? I feel like I can turn over a lot of J1 wishlist work, and all J2 work, to someone else, and review and do my final edits. J1 is basically email pushing and monitoring contractors who self perform.

Before this new manager at J1, I always only had positive reviews (at any J). Meaning in the “things you can improve” it would be small things & way fewer points compared to the “things you did well” section. A lot of times also more about things I can do on top of what I’m already doing, not actually I did something bad. This time around, we have a new process at J1 & I got more than usual points for things to improve. Two out of three are about being more of an active participant for things not strictly related to work. I know she cares more about “visibility” on top of actual work but I don’t & feel like I might switch J1 due to this difference in us. Anyways, just trying to judge where I stand in terms of layoff/firing risk. I started applying today but I still wanna know this for future reference : what kind of things are actually ok to have in the “things you can improve” section?

I also feel like both Js are increasing output expectations so idk if it’s the same everywhere now. This is kind of making me feel like maybe i should stick it out.

I told a recruiter that I didn’t have an LinkedIn , they found it. ( stupid mistake I know) Both LinkedIn and Resume have J1 I need to list it since it has most of my experience. The recruiter handed me off to another recruiter and now I have an interview with the hiring manager. If offered should I accept it as a J2? I will tell them I reactivate it since I’m job searching.