So Matt walks into a bar....

 So you are thinking of working two jobs. I got thoughts about that. Preliminaries . I'm not your dad. If you are doing something that you feel bad about, go yell at someone else. If you know who I work for, I'm not their representative and my opinions are not theirs. You'll have to go ask HR about policy questions. What is a framework for thinking about working for two jobs? I'm talking about selling the same block of 40 hours twice, two salaried W2 jobs, often without coordination or in secret from the other employer. Working a full time job and a weekend job at the gas station is not on topic right now. I'm also not talking about 1099 freelancing, where you work for as many clients as you like and all clients know that you take on multiple clients. A lot depends on the nature of the job. I'm going to use some metaphors because summarizing knowledge work in a single word is harder than asking a reader to understand ditch digging, truck driving are metaphors fo...

This story might apply to you if you are a: - skinny, nondiabetic vegan - life long runner - amateur runner who is cranking up the volume right now - have arthritis in other parts of your body (I got what one doctor called knee arthritis in one knee) - have a mystery chest pain you didn't use to have - you're an increasing old male, about 50 or older If not, then my story might not apply to you, go read real medical advice. So I wake up in the middle of the night with chest pains. I google to see if it is a heart attack-- no feeling of weight on chest, heart rate is slow, no arm pain, etc. I go back to sleep but figure I should get it checked out. Chest continues to hurt during the day. Worse at the end of a hard run, fine in early morning, starts up again as the day goes on. Dr Google suggests that as an old, 49 year old, male life long runner, I might have atrial fibrillation or something else, maybe costochondritis (rib cage arthritis) or heart burn. It probably is not heart...