Engineering Consultancy as a Second Job
Engineering Consultancy as a Second Job
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hello fellas,
has anyone worked an an engineer consultant beside working as a full time employee in a company; would like to hear about your experience? how does it affect your life?
thanks in advance and best regards
has anyone worked an an engineer consultant beside working as a full time employee in a company; would like to hear about your experience? how does it affect your life?
thanks in advance and best regards





RE: Engineering Consultancy as a Second Job
Also, you would need to be careful what you do for your second job during the times when you are at your salaried job. This could be anything from taking a phone call, replying to an email, using CADD software, using company owned reference material or codes, etc.
Personally I would rather put more effort into my current job and advance, then try to juggle an additional job. Just my two cents.
RE: Engineering Consultancy as a Second Job
There's not much I can do about the fact that I'll spend more time thinking about whichever is the most interesting project, but then that applies to all sorts of things, not just two jobs. If I spend a week of evenings programming a course optimisation program for sailing, that is definitely time I could have spent thinking about work, but I make no apology for doing so.
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When our division got sold off the buyer made us sign new NDA/Non Compete type agreements that essentially said any IP we came up with whil working for them was theirs. Many of us questioned this as we either had or saw the potential for consulting/inventing outside our day jobs. They came back with a clarification that it only applied to IP related to our day job. (Sadly they didn't do anything about the section in the employment agreement that said it could not be modified...)
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RE: Engineering Consultancy as a Second Job
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Time in so much as you will not be available to answer a phone call, attend a meeting, do a presentation etc during normal working hours, assuming you have a full time job.
Money as if you are not using any of your main employers resources you will have to have your own insurance, whatever software you may need etc the cost of which is normally spread over full time hours but you will need to spread them over fewer hours, this effects your bottom line.
This of course assumes that you intend to work in a legal and ethical way, if not I wish you the same as I wish everyone else who is basically screwing things up for companies and individuals who do, that you fail miserably and it comes back to bite you hard.
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I appreciate the insights and tips; they really helped
best regards
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RE: Engineering Consultancy as a Second Job
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