u/Adorable_Recipe9845

I am the pot calling the kettle black here as when I was a super and then an APM I would often average about 50-70 hours a week depending on if I worked a weekend or not. I stepped away from the industry about a year and a half ago but many of my friends and family are still in it and I also sell to the industry so I am still in touch with how things are.

I know things are always dependent on the project/management that you have but I have come across so many people who simply do what they can on a daily basis and then walk away for the day. I know of PM's that were starting their days at 8-9am in the morning and then were gone at 5pm.

I am considering going back into the industry and my biggest thing is avoiding getting burnt out again. I put a lot of the pressure on myself to succeed/worked longer hours at times so I feel just simply accepting that I am going to do what I can in 8-10 hours (or 12 depending on the day) and then calling it quits is the best solution for when I potentially return to the industry. I was always a top performer and was on top of my trades while I was at work so ultimately I know I am above my peers typically and in todays market companies are doing whatever they can to retain good talent.

Is the key to just simply care less, do what you can, and ultimately see that at the end of the day it is just a job. We work to live not live to work?

I am looking to transition out of OE after I hit the one year mark in terms of doing it. I am going back to an old employer in a totally different field and in their mind I transitioned from my J1 to my J2 to then apply to them.

I put on my resume that I was employed at J1 from 9/25-9/26 and have my J2 as 9/26-Present. My The Work Number is frozen and my current referral for J1 would actually be my best friend who is my current manager at my J1.

Wanted to know what the right move is. Should I have claimed that I am working J1 part time to this day? I just did not want to show a 1 year employment gap and not list J1 on my resume. The industry that I am going back into never experiences this problem with people being OE since everything is so heavily in person which prevents anyone the opportunity from being OE>

I plan to finish out one year of OE and ultimately transition over to one main job to not stagnate my career. I am in the construction field and lucked out with two sales roles that I was able to stack for the past 7-8 months and I will round out 1 year of being OE to then transition to one full time job.

I plan to go back into construction management and I was planning to list J1 and J2 as concurrent jobs however my J1 would be listed as going from full time to part time/hourly. I would explain that I was able to bill out on a hourly rate for sales calls that I hopped on in the after hours throughout the week and my schedule was up to me to choose what I could or could not work. I benefit from the fact that my best friend is my manager and if they had to call a reference to verify then he would be the one to answer and he has known I was OE for these past 7-8 months.

Would this be the proper move? I just do not want it to get uncovered that I was continuing to work at my J1 as I am showing that my J2 is my full time job. The construction industry typically is not exposed to people who are OE so I dont think anyone will pry. Or would the move be to list J2 going from September of last year to current and then have my J1 go from my original start date to the start date of J2

J1: 09/01/24 to 09/01/25 & J2 09/01/25 to Present

or

J1: 09/01/24 to Present (Full Time/Part Time) & J2: 09/01/25 to Present (Full Time)