3 Jobs = 1 Person: "Can You Handle It?"
By Shavkat
@Shavkat (140118)
Philippines
February 7, 2019 8:10pm CST
It has been more than a month that I was not that active here. For the reason that I am overloaded with my three jobs: online teacher, offline teacher and essay editor. My daily schedule consumed lots of time during weekdays.
Teaching in a Korean school (8:20 AM to 5:00 PM)
Online Teaching (7:00 PM to 12:00 AM)
Essay Editing (It is being done in between these two jobs.)
Since I tried to be like Superman, it failed me to sustain the energy of being a workaholic. I grabbed the opportunities, but it is not worth it. Thus, I resigned teaching at the Korean school. For the reason that it demands lots of my time. One thing for sure, I cannot deal with an airheaded head teacher, too.
"Can you handle three jobs?"
"Are you a workaholic?"
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16 responses
@Shavkat (140118)
• Philippines
11 Feb 19
@LadyDuck Yes, my friend. I do work more than 10 hours and breaks in between. At least, I am not pressured working like in an organization or company. Although I am dreaming of working in an international NGO again in the future. Then, I can still work online at the same time.
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@ZedSmart (19786)
• Philippines
8 Feb 19
I'd two works that I call job before. A full time and a part time and I also sidelined doing data entry works. It's very exhausting and I was sick so I gave up the online job hunting because I allocated my time there at 10pm-2am and I should wake up before 8 because that's the official time of my duty in my full time work.
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@Shavkat (140118)
• Philippines
9 Feb 19
@playertwo Indeed, my friend. I don't need to deal with so many incompetent colleagues. I am just saying what I had encountered in this Korean school.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
10 Feb 19
I had 3 jobs in the past. I worked in one homecare district from Monday to Friday and in another homecare district on the weekends. The third job was a hospital job. I only worked sometimes (when they called me) and only evenings or nights since I worked in homecare during the day. My ex also had 3 jobs and we earned really well, but I wouldn't do it again. It is too exhausting.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
11 Feb 19
@Shavkat Yes, it is exhausting. I don't regret doing it in the past, because and ex and I spent the money on travelling and we wouldn't have been able to travel as much as we did without the money from our jobs. But I wouldn't do it today.
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@Shavkat (140118)
• Philippines
11 Feb 19
@Porcospino I do agree with you. I never felt the regretful word about had happened in the past, I always think that I had learned something from it. If I still have the stamina to do it, why not. But, I prefer to cherish what I have right now.
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
8 Feb 19
is the korean school offline? were you also teaching english there?
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@DaddyEvil (137634)
• United States
13 Feb 19
"I cannot deal with an airheaded head teacher, too."
I do hope you wrote this sentence into your resignation letter to the head of the Korean school, Shavkat. I'm sure the school board would have been quickly reviewing someone's teaching qualifications! 
Yes, for several years (9 1/2 to be exact) I worked three jobs at the same time. I worked during the daytime Monday thru Friday from 8 am to 5 pm in a window manufacturing plant, daytime Saturday and Sunday from 6 am to 5 pm as a disk jockey at a local radio station and from 6 pm to 530 am Saturday and Sunday as a desk clerk at a local Best Western Motor Inn.
I also took Pretty with me when working the weekend jobs, so add babysitter to that schedule. (Pretty was two years old when I started the two weekend jobs.)
I will admit I felt tired most of the time but I still found plenty of time to enjoy my life during that time, as well. 
Edit to add: No, I don't believe I have ever been a workaholic. But I did have a money-hungry wife back then! (Thankfully, I left her behind. 
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@Shavkat (140118)
• Philippines
17 Feb 19
Prior to this situation, I did three jobs last 2013. I worked in three jobs. To be specific, I teach offline students in a Korean academy from 8 AM to 12 PM, teacher caregiver students 1 PM to 5 PM and teach online Korean students from 7 PM to midnight during weekdays. 
Thus, I only have free time during weekends. I was so driven at that time.
At present, I think I can still have three jobs. But then, I prefer to have them online. After the incident with that airheaded head teacher. I changed my mind to work offline. In fact, he did an apology during the exit interview. It is a great venue to blurt out all the sentiments that he had created in the first place. Besides, it is not my lost anyway.
Thus, I only have free time during weekends. I was so driven at that time.
At present, I think I can still have three jobs. But then, I prefer to have them online. After the incident with that airheaded head teacher. I changed my mind to work offline. In fact, he did an apology during the exit interview. It is a great venue to blurt out all the sentiments that he had created in the first place. Besides, it is not my lost anyway. 1 person likes this
@Shavkat (140118)
• Philippines
20 Feb 19
@DaddyEvil It is not worth dying for to work with this head teacher. I can even tell that there is no career path in this academy. He thought that I am a person who will just keep on saying: "Amen" to him. I humbly say that his work experience is not that much as compared to mine. It is a fact.
@DaddyEvil (137634)
• United States
18 Feb 19
@Shavkat Oh, wow! I've never had a job where there was any chance at an exit interview... Probably to their credit! Some of the jobs I've left would have done themselves a favor asking the exiting employees why they were leaving!
I'm glad he did apologize to you! And I agree, you lost nothing when you left that job and explained why you were leaving! (Good for you!)
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@RasmaSandra (80736)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Feb 19
You certainly are busy. More power to you. The most I could juggle would be two jobs.
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@everwonderwhy (7376)
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17 Feb 19
You're inspirng! You are a hard worker. How did you get your job as an online teacher?
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@Shavkat (140118)
• Philippines
17 Feb 19
I was working officed based online teacher before. However, it doesn't pay that much and decided to work at home with the same company. I do think there are a lot of online tutorial companies now. They also hire native speakers. You can try it if you are interested. I can give you some of these companies.
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@Shavkat (140118)
• Philippines
17 Feb 19
@everwonderwhy Sure. You can try to check them out.
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@everwonderwhy (7376)
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19 Feb 19
@Shavkat I deleted my flippant comment about messaging me the online job opportunities. I did not mean to 'encourage' you to do something illegal. I can actually look them up for myself outside of myLot.
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