r/overemployed rules, stats, and what to post

This community is for people who work multiple jobs during the same 40 hours and want to reach financial freedom. The people here are already overemployed or actively working toward it, and they use the sub to figure out how to be successfully overemployed. The rules make it clear this is a practical space, not a place to vent about work or to hunt for a job. The moderators say it plainly: they remove posts that complain about work, contain low effort content, violate privacy, promote other sites, or ask for job hunt help. So think of it as a room full of people quietly stacking paychecks, sharing tactics that help each other do that well.

The rule that decides almost everything marketing related is “No solicitation”, which bans proposing work opportunities for yourself or others, so pitching your product or service is out. “No SPAM or job search sites without open source code links” is unusual and strict: any job search site you share must come with a git repository or source code link, and closed source sites or resume systems are banned, plus it says DMs to get info are not cool. “Don't Promote Unauthorized communities” treats links to random communities as spam unless proven otherwise, so do not funnel people to your own group. “No low quality trolling / shitposting” and “AI Slop/LARPing/Low effort posts” together demand real effort and no AI generated filler. “This isn't Antiwork” removes venting about bosses, jobs, layoffs, or the job market, which kills the classic sympathy first marketing angle. “This isn't a job hunting sub” blocks asking the sub for job hunting secrets or sources and points specific questions to the discord. “No Doxxing / No Reddit ToS violations” bans real names and news articles about people who got caught, which matters if you reference real cases. Finally, “Check the FAQ first” means common questions get answered by the pinned FAQ instead of your post.

A good post here is genuinely useful to someone juggling multiple jobs, and it asks for nothing in return. Share something you put real effort into typing, like a lesson learned from managing overlapping schedules, a practical workflow, or an honest breakdown of what worked and what did not. Write it yourself in your own voice, because obvious AI slop and low effort posts get removed. If you built an open source tool that helps people find or manage work, you can share it, but only if you include the git repository or source code link, and never a closed source site or resume system. Before you post anything, read the pinned FAQ at the top of the feed, because repeated questions get pointed there. If your post would make a busy person juggling two jobs slightly better at it, and it asks for no signup, no DM, and no click to your site, it fits.

Do not promote anything. No pitching your product, no links to your community, no offering or asking for work opportunities, no closed source job search sites, and no DMs to get info. Do not complain about your boss, your job, the job market, or a layoff, because this is not the place to vent. Do not post low effort content, obvious AI slop, or LARPing, and do not karma farm here. Do not ask the sub for job hunting secrets or sources, since helping people job hunt is not what it is for and some things are gatekept to protect the community. Never include anyone's real name or link news articles about people getting caught, because doxxing is banned. Do not repost questions the FAQ already answers, and check the pinned FAQ before you post or comment.

This is one of the few subs where the fastest way to get banned is to be too helpful in the wrong direction, since even job hunting questions get redirected to the discord. I also love that the open source rule means the only tool you can share here is one you are willing to show the code for, which is a higher bar than most communities set. If your product cannot survive that level of transparency, this is not your room yet.