What's moonlighting?

Question

I just want to work long hours.

I ride around most nights - subways, buses - but you know, if I'm gonna do that I might as well get paid for it.

I'll work anytime, anywhere.

What's moonlighting?

Answer 1

Moonlighting is a term used by the labor market that means working a second job. It has nothing to do with how many hours you work. Just that you're working a second job. You have a main job, then you "moonlight" with another company in addition to your regular job. They call it moonlighting because generally people work during the day on their main jobs, then work at night for extra money, or during "moonlit" hours. Some companies don't allow their employees to moonlight. It has a tendency to lower production levels because people who work two jobs are usually more tired and miss more days due to illnesses. But, in reality, one can moonlight anytime, anywhere, as long as it's not for the same company. Most don't inform their main companies of their second income.

Answer 2

The Wikipedia definition is: Moonlighting, the practice of performing an additional job (usually on a contractual basis) which is separate from a person's day job.

The TV Series Moonlighting was very popular also.
Moonlighting

Moonlighting's creator/executive producer Glenn Gordon Caron once described the program as "the show that knows it's on television." The 1985-1989 ABC hit was stylish, sophisticated, and clearly aimed at pop culturally-hip grownups. It was also plagued with tension, both on and off the set.

Ex-model Maddie Hayes (played by ex-model Cybill Shepherd) learns that her accountant has embezzled from her, and surveying what's left, finds she owns the unsuccessful Blue Moon detective agency in Los Angeles. She's about to dump it when the guy who's been running it, David Addison (a then-unknown Bruce Willis) cons her into holding onto it to save his job, and proceeds to get her involved in the cases as they get involved with each other. Flighty and sincere Agnes Dipesto (Allyce Beasley) and nerdy Herbert Viola (Curtis Armstrong) work at the agency too, and often act as counterpoints for Hayes and Addison. Maddie, the ice princess, and David, the king of the smirking smart-asses, forge a partnership that is really just a platform for their burgeoning sexual chemistry. Sure, they solve mysteries, but will they hit the sheets this week?

At the end of the 1985-86 season, David and Maddie kissed in the parking garage, but it wasn't till the end of the next season that they had sex. That episode, called "The Big Bang," drew an estimated 60 million viewers, beating that week's Academy Awards broadcast. Because Shepherd was pregnant at the time, the love scenes had to be filmed standing up with the bed propped against a wall and the camera turned sideways.

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After thought: In my career I have often held hourly jobs even when I was a manager or director. It helped to keep me grounded in knowing how people did their jobs and made me a better manager. Some companies now have guidelines as to where and what type of companies you can moonlight with while working for them. So make sure you know your company policy.

Answer 3

Moonlighting is usually working a 2nd or 3rd job (part-time) in addition to a 40-hour per week job.

Answer 4

Moonlighting means that you work an additional job at night.

Answer 5

moonlighting ,its like you work your regular job say as a mechanic , plumber or electrician or similar trade and then on weekends or after hours you do the same type of work and get payed under the table or like cash .