My second job is consulting for my previous job which I've left to make more money at FAANG. My third job is consulting for a company where a friend of mine works. I gave him useful advice on some problems he was working on, and he connected me with the higher ups.
All three jobs are software engineering. C++ mostly.
I’d love to know both numbers, it’s an interesting story. I’m agree with you here, yet I think consulting is just different. You gain your expertise at job-1 (FAANG), and then you just use those skills at jobs 2 and 3. I think it’s not that simple, but I guess could be simplified that way.
What do you do in your second and third job? How did you find it?