In the past 12 months, the labour market has been shrouded with news around retrenchments and in recent weeks, the government has moved to increase the retirement age and re-employment age to give a longer statutory protection to senior workers who want to work longer. Essentially, most of my peers are trying to stay employed. In a recent Seedly event, I bumped into my friend, Stanley who I got to know through an ex-colleague more than a year ago. Contrary to most Singaporeans who typically hold a full-time job, he is overemployed, holding 4 fractional full-time jobs in 4 different companies. On top of it all, all his bosses are aware of his situation and approve of this. I could smell an interesting story from this so I arranged to have a 1-hour interview with him to learn more about his overemployment situation. So what does overemployed mean? For those new to the term, overemployed refers to the...