Navigating Multiple Jobs

All it would take for many workplace problems to end is for employers starting a new business to not go forward without paying their employees a livable wage/salary that allows security (meaning it ultimately has to be more than enough to barely survive on).  Established employers would also need to adjust their compensation for all present workers and give up some of their own surplus earnings if required.  Until that happens, a plethora of workers would continue to severely struggle against the urgency of various personal goals requiring money and the higher and higher costs of living.  That workplace oppression is so normal in some countries does not mean that it cannot come to a stop, but it is unlikely that it will happen anytime soon, at the very least.

In the meantime, how are many people to survive while recognizing the inherent irrationality of plenty of concepts, practices, and intentions associated with the general workplaces of countries like America or India?  They might, for the right reasons (that is, by discovering and embracing logical necessities while avoiding all assumptions, which almost no one actually does), come to reject the philosophical errors of exalting professional labor over all else.  They could flee from the pretense that it is anything more on its own than a social construct and a means to an end that could be altered if their society was restructured, and still they will almost certainly have to work simply to survive in a society that often uses work to express irrationalistic, abusive, or selfish tendencies.

Low wages/salaries, haphazard benefits beyond compensation, insufficient working hours, or harmful workplace conditions, not to mention the typical corporate pettiness, could easily make any single job a kind of hell for workers just trying to get by while perhaps saving money for major goals or spending money on uplifting, nonsinful non-necessities.  When their job is not enough to help them achieve these ends, they can search for a new job to replace the current one, which has its own dangers of giving up any advantages of seniority and possibly taking a lot of time, effort, and luck to bring about.  Another option is to, as frustrating as it is, secure a second job, maybe even a handful of secondary, smaller jobs.

On a pragmatic level, for a time, it can be best to work at least two jobs to gain more base earnings, contribute to multiple 401Ks if possible, and obtain more experience that can be presented to a potential future employer.  This is not how many people would prefer to live, and certainly not myself, but in order to advance under an increasingly difficult set of workplace norms (as inflation leaps forward, compensation might still stagnates), it might be a necessary sacrifice, if just a temporary one.  It is necessary only in the sense that without it one might not escape financial limitations or would escape them much more slowly.  To purposefully set up a society to pressure people to do this by default, a wholly avoidable thing, is to knowingly establish an exploitative system.

Despite the challenges of having even just two jobs and the immense forfeiture of free time and non-professional tasks therein, navigating multiple jobs can be a pathway to greater economic stability or to buying more food, entertainment, and so on without depleting existing savings.  Without ever believing the falsehood that it is the only possible way to become more financially secure, or that it is not ultimately up to employers to end the exploitation of employees that drives some people to seek multiple jobs, a person can have more than one job for part of their life.  It is doable, and it is also irrational for certain people to prefer for others to live this way so that they can continue underpaying or otherwise exploiting them.