An American engineer is earning 315,000 euros a year thanks to two things: teleworking and ChatGPT

“I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because they will find an easy way to do it.” This quote, attributed to Bill Gates, perfectly describes the situation of a network engineer who, working remotely and with the help of ChatGPT, optimized his three jobs to complete them in 40 hours a week, get three times the salary of his colleagues and throw by land all the arguments of the big companies for the return to the office.

ChatGPT makes your life easy. the american medium insiders picks up the bizarre story of Joseph, a fictitious name behind which a 48-year-old engineer from Texas is hidden, which is paradoxical to say the least. He has only managed to demolish all the theories about the drop in productivity on which the large companies are based to argue the return to the offices to the detriment of teleworking.

His secret has been to use ChatGPT to condense into four or five hours a week of “real work” what his company thought would take him 40 hours a week at a salary of $117,000. By optimizing processes with artificial intelligence, the engineer was able to do the same job as his colleagues in much less time, leaving him room to look for a second job.

Telecommuting allowed him to expand his benefits. After a few months of job hunting, the engineer landed a second full-time job remotely, and this time his salary was even better than his first job, earning $120,000 a year.

On this occasion, the job did require full dedication during the 40 hours a week that he had agreed to, but it was perfectly compatible with the five hours a week that the first one required. Something totally impossible if any of them had been in person.

There are no two without three as long as they are remote. After a while, the company of his second job announced a series of strategic changes that endangered his continuity in the company. Not surprising in a context where hundreds of thousands of tech company employees are being laid off. Which led him to start looking for a third job. The idea was to leave the second job to keep the first and third. He was lucky and his third job exceeded the salary of the second, getting an annual salary of $125,000 for a remote job of 40 hours a week.

The engineer acknowledges that the most difficult thing about this third job was getting it to be completely remote, since many companies began to demand full face-to-face or, at most, hybrid work models.

However, this was a necessary condition for him if he did not want to have to give up the salary from his first job, something he could not afford due to the high inflation that is causing employees to lose purchasing power and need a second job to cope. to your expenses.

Improve productivity, triple profits. A stroke of fate wanted some changes to occur in the workflow of his second job that allowed our protagonist to use artificial intelligence again to optimize processes, managing to reduce the time of his second job to less than eight hours a week. This would allow him to dedicate full time to the third job and set aside some extra time each week for his other two jobs, earning triple the benefits.

Moral and agenda dilemmas. The engineer declaresHe told Insider that his intention has never really been to deceive anyone: “In the IT world, we never work 40-hour weeks. I’m a salaried person, so it doesn’t really matter if I work 15 or 40-hour weeks. week. If I do the job I’m hired to do, then I’ve earned my salary.” This does not imply that, although it is legal to have more than one job, this engineer has not feared that one of his employers will discover his secret (which is why he has used an alias).

The engineer confesses that, paradoxically, the most difficult thing has not been to condense each of the jobs into a little less than eight hours a week, but rather to manage the agenda so that the video call meetings of the different jobs do not overlap. He hasn’t always gotten it.

In those exceptional cases, the solution has been to turn off the camera and follow the meetings through two different headphones.

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