"Stacking Jobs"

Tired of Waking Up Tired? This Gummy Can Help

Craving knockout rest that doesn’t leave you groggy?

CBDistillery’s Enhanced Deep Sleep Gummies are formulated to relax your body and mind and keep you asleep through the night. Try them risk-free and save 25% on your first order with code SLP25.

Save 25%, Sleep Better

Abby here: Yes! Over 40 folks are attractive to advertisers! It’s a whole new world. Please click on the above ad as a FREE way to help me fund this newsletter. You guys are the best—you really are. (And who over 40 doesn’t want better sleep??)

I’ve been applying to full-time jobs, I promise. A lot of them, in fact. There are copywriting/editing jobs and management jobs and marketing jobs. I dutifully send in my keyword-packed resume with a skills section that is decoded to mean “I’m great at working remote.” I send a personal note, and a cover letter, and do all the things.

But my heart isn’t in it. At least not anymore.

Don’t get me wrong—I would accept. Happily. But the odds aren’t in my favor.

There are fake job posts (that’ll have to be its own post—stay tuned). There are listings for jobs they’ve already filled with a friend of a friend’s neighbor—but want to look like they scoured far and wide. There are sites with tons of listings, a daily handful of which are in my wheelhouse, but we all know each one gets thousands of applicants.

So at a point, it was time to take matters into my own hands.

And that is how I stumbled onto an option that is way more common these days.

Stacking jobs.

@alexusxn

🤎We are stacking WFH jobs in 2025! Email your resume let me help you get some WFH jobs too🤗 non-phone jobs. #wfh #remotework #wfhlife #wfh... See more

Here’s how it works: Instead of one job (with benefits), you “stack” several part-time, 1099 jobs. Because this is becoming more common, companies are adjusting accordingly, with remote setups and flexible schedules.

And here’s how it’s working for me.

I’m a contributing writer in arts & entertainment for Newsweek. I love it. I can sign onto the breaking news desk when I want to, around my own schedule. Take a read (all of my stories are below my bio), for such hard-hitting topics as whether or not Patrick Mahomes’ newborn will be at the Super Bowl tomorrow, or the “other” Taylor Swift Easter egg that fans missed at the Grammys. I love it.

Clicking on my stories is another free way to support me during this transition!

But I digress. I also have a part-time PR/event gig starting March 1. The hours are later and a perfect fit.

Now I need one more. One that I can do on my own time, preferably. For example, if I had a huge FDA document I needed to edit (something I’ve done in the past) by the end of the week, I could take a day off from Newsweek, or do it early mornings before I sign on late morning/early afternoon.

My dream mix?

• One “prestige” job to keep my name out there and scratch my itch for journalism, dying art that it is

• One job to keep me out and about, a part of my community (PR/events gig)

• One flexible, old-fashioned freelance-type job (dorky is ok) to help pay the bills

Get it? Is this appealing, or frightening to you? I’d love to know what others are thinking!