Moonlighting White Collar Workers
Professionals are doing whatever they can to make ends meet: game shows, prostitution, laundering money for the mob, and now, working two jobs.
The Wall Street Journal reports that because of pay cuts and layoffs, many white-collar workers are starting to work two jobs to make up for the pay cuts. Want to get in on the action? Here’s one way the moonlighters are doing it:
The growth of freelance websites to higher-paid, white-collar occupations is making it easier to moonlight. Accountants, lawyers, marketers and other managers and professionals seeking work on PeoplePerHour.com have more than doubled in the past year to 58,000, says founder Xenios Thrasyvoulou.