白领兼职热潮正在悄然兴起

    As an advertising¹ art director, Jeff Quigley isn't the type of worker who traditionally holds two jobs. But after getting hit by a one-day-a-week furlough and pay cut last year, Mr. Quigley has joined a fast-growing sector² of the work force: White-collar moonlighters.
    Now, he puts in a seven-day workweek walking a time-management tightrope³, logging four long days for his employer and three more selling his design work online and elsewhere, trying to make up the lost income. 'The mentality⁴ now is, if I'm not at my computer working, I'm not producing income,' he says.
    Moonlighting traditionally has meant juggling⁵ two hourly jobs, or an hourly job plus freelancing. But waves of furloughs, pay cuts and layoffs⁷ among professionals and managers have driven many white-collar workers to start cramming⁸ a second job into the workweek, too. Some need the added income to make up for pay cuts; others want to avert⁹ the risk of losing their income in the event of a layoff⁶.
    Some 9% of 4,500 mostly white-collar workers surveyed recently for CareerBuilder.com, a career website, have taken a second job in the past year to make ends meet; no data are available from the past for comparison. Another 19% said they intended to take a second job sometime in 2010.
    While white-collar moonlighters have the advantage of more flexibility¹⁰ on the job, they also face challenges. Juggling the open-ended hours and demands of two white-collar jobs can stretch the workweek to exhausting lengths. The setups raise touchy¹¹ issues with moonlighters' day-job employers, including potential conflicts of interest.
    Joe Castelano started moonlighting because he couldn't see an end to the pay cuts at his sales job for a financial-services company. With a third child on the way, he says he wondered, 'How am I going to pay for college? How am I going to pay for weddings? How am I going to support my kids the way my parents supported me?'
    He and his wife Jennifer opened a Doctors Express urgent-care clinic in 2008 in Paramus, N.J. The downside: His day job demands up to 80 hours a week, and the clinic is open 80 hours a week. While its 11 employees handle day-to-day operations, Mr. Castelano sometimes works as late as 2 a.m. to handle accounting¹³ and administrative¹⁴ tasks, and his workweek has expanded to seven days. The effort to find balance often leaves him 'mentally tired.'
    Many white-collar moonlighters work from home, giving their kids a lesson in financial realities. When Mr. Quigley's two sons, 11 and 8, interrupt him in his home office near Halifax, Nova Scotia, he reminds them that his freelance work pays for the activities they love. 'If you want to continue to play hockey, and if you want to kayak,' he tells them, 'you have to let Daddy work.'
    When job demands clash, moonlighters' day jobs win. Stefanie and Craig Miller¹⁵ both work for the same big company, she as a customer-marketing vice¹² president, and Mr. Miller as a senior logistics executive. For much of the past two years, the Atlanta couple has worked nights and weekends starting a Units mobile-storage business on the side to avoid having 'all our eggs in one basket,' Ms. Miller says.
    They use almost all their vacation time to attend trade shows and other events. When Ms. Miller was called on unexpectedly on a vacation day to make a presentation at her day job, she had to scramble¹⁶ to find someone to cover her planned appearance at a trade show. Mr. Miller sometimes makes storage-unit deliveries after work, driving the truck as late as 1 a.m. On weekends, he sometimes takes his two older children, 9 and 7, along on deliveries.
    The nonstop mental work of two white-collar jobs can leave them unable to relax even when things slow down. Todd Browndyke, Dallas, works 9 1/2-hour days as a senior director of business development for an interactive-marketing agency, then freelances nights and weekends, selling consulting services online.
    To get it all done, he uses the 80-20 rule: spending 80% of his time on the 20% of work that is most important. He thinks up ideas while working out on the elliptical machine or brushing his teeth. To stay alert, he runs up his office stairs instead of taking the elevator, and does trunk twists at his desk.
    He is also studying for his MBA on the side. Sometimes, all the mental work leaves his mind racing¹⁷ so fast that he tosses and turns in bed, unable to sleep.
    The growth of freelance websites to higher-paid, white-collar occupations is making it easier to moonlight. Accountants, lawyers, marketers and other managers and professionals seeking work on PeoplePerHour.com have more than doubled in the past year to 58,000, says founder¹⁸ Xenios Thrasyvoulou.
    White-collar moonlighters face some touchy issues with employers. Most feel obligated, either ethically¹⁹ or out of loyalty²⁰, to tell their employers about their second jobs. They have to tiptoe around potential conflicts of interest, avoiding taking clients who compete with their employer or their employer's clients, for example. Also, they have to avoid using their employer's name to promote any sideline jobs or businesses.
    After imposing²¹ a pay freeze in 2008, Jen Klabis's employer, a university research laboratory where she works as a technician, approved her plan to moonlight as a graphic²² designer to meet rising living costs. She squeezes freelance projects into her 40- to 50-hour work weeks. The setup became complicated, however, when the university wanted to hire her as a designer. She had to form her own company, Alice Graphix, Chicago, and sign an independent-contractor agreement to resolve potential conflicts of interest, she says.
    The trend may mark a lasting²³ change. Like many of the white-collar freelancers²⁴ interviewed, Ms. Klabis sees moonlighting as a permanent part of her life and plans to continue even after the pay cut is lifted later this year.

1 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

2 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

3 tightrope   

n.绷紧的绳索或钢丝

参考例句：

• The audience held their breath as the acrobat walked along the tightrope.杂技演员走钢丝时，观众都屏住了呼吸。
• The tightrope walker kept her balance by holding up an umbrella.走钢丝的演员举着一把伞，保持身体的均衡。

4 mentality   

n.心理，思想，脑力

参考例句：

• He has many years'experience of the criminal mentality.他研究犯罪心理有多年经验。
• Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee.经营企业所要求具备的心态和上班族的心态截然不同。

5 juggling   

n. 欺骗, 杂耍(=jugglery) adj. 欺骗的, 欺诈的 动词juggle的现在分词

参考例句：

• He was charged with some dishonest juggling with the accounts. 他被指控用欺骗手段窜改账目。
• The accountant went to prison for juggling his firm's accounts. 会计因涂改公司的帐目而入狱。

6 layoff   

n.临时解雇，操作停止，活动停止期间，失业期

参考例句：

• Finally, prepare an explanation about what led to your layoff.最后，要准备好一套说辞来解释你被解雇的原因。
• Workers were re-employed after the layoff.在暂时解雇不久后工人们又被再度雇用了。

7 layoffs   

临时解雇( layoff的名词复数 )； 停工，停止活动

参考例句：

• Textile companies announced 2000 fresh layoffs last week. 各纺织公司上周宣布再次裁员两千人。
• Stock prices broke when the firm suddenly announced layoffs. 当公司突然宣布裁员时，股票价格便大跌

8 cramming   

n.塞满，填鸭式的用功v.塞入( cram的现在分词 )；填塞；塞满；（为考试而）死记硬背功课

参考例句：

• Being hungry for the whole morning, I couldn't help cramming myself. 我饿了一上午，禁不住狼吞虎咽了起来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She's cramming for her history exam. 她考历史之前临时抱佛脚。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 avert   

v.防止，避免；转移(目光、注意力等)

参考例句：

• He managed to avert suspicion.他设法避嫌。
• I would do what I could to avert it.我会尽力去避免发生这种情况。

10 flexibility   

n.柔韧性，弹性，（光的）折射性，灵活性

参考例句：

• Her great strength lies in her flexibility.她的优势在于她灵活变通。
• The flexibility of a man's muscles will lessen as he becomes old.人老了肌肉的柔韧性将降低。

11 touchy   

adj.易怒的；棘手的

参考例句：

• Be careful what you say because he's touchy.你说话小心，因为他容易生气。
• He's a little touchy about his weight.他对自己的体重感到有点儿苦恼。

12 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

13 accounting   

n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表

参考例句：

• A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
• There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。

14 administrative   

adj.行政的，管理的

参考例句：

• The administrative burden must be lifted from local government.必须解除地方政府的行政负担。
• He regarded all these administrative details as beneath his notice.他认为行政管理上的这些琐事都不值一顾。

15 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

16 scramble   

v.爬行，攀爬，杂乱蔓延，碎片，片段，废料

参考例句：

• He broke his leg in his scramble down the wall.他爬墙摔断了腿。
• It was a long scramble to the top of the hill.到山顶须要爬登一段长路。

17 racing   

n.竞赛，赛马；adj.竞赛用的，赛马用的

参考例句：

• I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
• The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。

18 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

19 ethically   

adv.在伦理上，道德上

参考例句：

• Ethically , we have nothing to be ashamed about . 从伦理上说，我们没有什么好羞愧的。
• Describe the appropriate action to take in an ethically ambiguous situation. 描述适当行为采取在一个道德地模棱两可的情况。

20 loyalty   

n.忠诚，忠心

参考例句：

• She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
• His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。

21 imposing   

adj.使人难忘的，壮丽的，堂皇的，雄伟的

参考例句：

• The fortress is an imposing building.这座城堡是一座宏伟的建筑。
• He has lost his imposing appearance.他已失去堂堂仪表。

22 graphic   

adj.生动的，形象的，绘画的，文字的，图表的

参考例句：

• The book gave a graphic description of the war.这本书生动地描述了战争的情况。
• Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons.用图标来区分重要的文本项。

23 lasting   

adj.永久的，永恒的；vbl.持续，维持

参考例句：

• The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
• We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。

24 freelancers   

n.自由作家，自由记者( freelancer的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• A lot of proof-reading is put out to freelancers. 校对工作有很多是请外人做的。 来自辞典例句
• Its benefits plan for freelancers is highly competitive in the industry. 在本行业内它的福利方案是很有竞争力的。 来自互联网