i say go for it, but you will go crazy if you are already working around 40 hrs a week. Apparently life satisfaction and happiness takes a big dip after 40 something hours (probably 44) a week, which was why (surprise surprise) private companies actually championed lowering the work week to 40 hours back in the day.

STRESS
i'm not trying to derail thread into free markets - it was just an interesting tidbit. I once worked 60 hours a week - i was telecommuting too, so it's not like i was spending 14 hours a day out of the house. i still went crazy and had to stop after a month. that's 4 weeks, and only um..crap. 60-44*4 = 16*4 = 64 extra hours of overtime pay. so 80 extra hours translated to 16 + 96 = 112 hours of pay. not worth the stress.

TWO JOBS
i did actually think about getting a second job once. i almost got it too - would've been a receptionist type of job at night, taking calls from elderly people who needed personal support workers to be rescheduled, or to schedule new customers, etc. the reason i didn't get it was they needed me to train during the day for a month, and i didn't have that freedom as i already had a full time job.

why did i need a full time job? well that's another topic for another day that i won't ever get into. suffice to say instead of that, i just got a better job and here i am.

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tl;dr - don't work two jobs if you will end up working 60 hours at minimum wage, unless you HAVE to (in which case i'm very sad and want to state again that you should check out rbc.com/careers and come to canada) - it's almost always better to be paid more for less work, but you're going to say 'duh pg'

i'm sadface now. um..ramble. okay - if you do night shift consider you might have to get trained during the day.

i know lots of people balancing multiple jobs. more sadface.

i'm going to sleep