Ask HN: Do you moonlight?

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For those of you with a stable, contract, daily job:

- Do you moonlight (work freelance during off-hours) for other companies? - Is your 9 to 5 aware that you're moonlighting? Are they (or would they be) OK with it? - How do you find contracts that are amenable to this kind of schedule? - Are there any challenges keeping your main job and side job(s) separate?

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I wanted to keep things completely above board so I talked to my boss at my full-time job about my desire to start my own company; that I would do so by working after hours and occasionally taking a day or a week off; and that my company was in a different field and would not be a competitor. He talked to HR and came back and said this was fine as long as I never used any company resources. I'm now working for MY company full-time, and have an employee at 32 hours per week.

Good luck!

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