Professional and Technical Moonlighters

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1994

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Collins, Mauri; Berge, Zane; Professional and Technical Moonlighters; Electronic Journal of Sociology (1994); https://www.sociology.org/ejs-archives/vol001.001/berg.html

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moonlighters
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characteristics
UMBC Instructional System Design

Abstract

This paper reviews some of the literature on multiple job holders to set the stage for reporting the results of an exploratory study conducted on the Internet involving "moonlighters." The foci of this research were to compare: 1) the Usenet sample demographically with the previously conducted United States Department of Labor survey, 2) the reasons professional, managerial and technical personnel moonlight with the reasons given by the general working population of the United States, 3) the order of reasons given by women and given by men, and 4) the order of reasons given by the foreign portion of the sample with those given by the United States respondents. The methodology is also of interest, being one of the first surveys completed using random Usenet groups.