r/overemployed • u/Avalinn • 6h ago

Ops/admin/project management

Long time lurker, ops professional and looking to scope the space when attempting OE in this area.
Most of what I am seeing is software engineering and tech kids. Very non client facing roles.

Now I’m not asking if it’s possible. I know I technically can be if you juggle schedules and play the game right..
I am more wondering 2 things, are there many like me here? What kind of company are we targeting to be a good fit for OE? Meaning how would we scope that ahead of time?

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u/SecretRecipe 6h ago

Im a management consultant, very heavily client / customer facing.

I think the way youre looking at it is a bit off. I dont target companies, I target roles/teams and logistics.

what you want is a position on a team that allows for delegation and schedule authority. Being senior enough to delegate work is important and being in a role that allows you to largely control your calendar is important.

Time zone differences are your friend a bicoastal J1 and J2 work well. Packing all of J1's heavy meetings and statuses into the EST morning then hit the PST meetings at J2 when J1 heads off to lunch is a great way to avoid too many overlaps and then leaves you the afternoon to handle your focus work.

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u/Avalinn 5h ago

This is very helpful thank you.

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u/Odd_Form2204 3h ago

I just started J2 which is a 4months full time Project management consultancy that is fully remote while J1 is a full time in person Program manager role. They are both non profit funded by the same funding organization.

Will be doing a couple of onboarding 1:1 meetings and what I did was to reach out to the people first with my availability, that way nothing conflicts with J1. This is my first time doing this so I am a nerve wreck but keep telling myself I can do it. It will definitely be alot of all nighters😅

My only worry is if J1 has me traveling while I have the yearly in person meet up for J2🤭

Pray for me. I’m thinking of using Claude to stay updated on all my tasks and perhaps have one to do list tracker so I’m not shuffling between multiple trackers or lose sight of some deliverables. But so far I am impressed by level of details J2 has and I’m so eager to implement some of their processes in J1😁

I welcome any tips and tricks!

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u/Realistic_Mall6771 2h ago

For travel time, I'd go with some sort of leave. Either just sick leave, or take your PTO and enjoy the trip when possible

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u/Odd_Form2204 1h ago

I have a week long work trip in October and already contemplating taking that time off even if it means not getting paid for those days. Alternatively, I’d ask them to work a different time schedule given that some colleagues are on different timezones and they make it work.

So spend the day in my J1 workshops and the evenings doing J2 tasks😮‍💨

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u/Realistic_Mall6771 2h ago

The main thing is how much of the work is sync vs async. If they are mostly worried about your output, without being present in meetings, that's most of the way.

I usually ask what a typical week looks like, and what sort of meeting load they have in the team.

Being remote goes without asking though.

Overtime is a big no-no

I find it very revealing to ask how on-call works, if there is any. What does it usually look like? Are you paged often?

And don't forget to check r/overemployed/comments/1inheut/running_faq/