India, April 21 -- A Reddit user claiming to earn nearly Rs.70 lakh annually as a platform engineer has shared a candid account of juggling multiple jobs, financial decisions and the personal cost of chasing high income early in his career.

In a post titled "Been moonlighting as a Platform Engineer - earning -70L/year - now stepping back," the user said that he had been working 2 roles simultaneously for over a year. One was with an Indian startup on contract, requiring over 4 hours daily, while the other was with a US-based company's Indian office, officially an 8-hour job but often stretching beyond 10 hours on weekdays.

"Both were WFH, so it was manageable - but my social life has basically been zero," he wrote, describing a routine ...