# Could the President of the United States get a second job while in office?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 29, 2022, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-president-of-the-united-states-get-a-second-job-while-in-office/963654 "2022-04-29T07:05:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-president-of-the-united-states-get-a-second-job-while-in-office/963654/41 "2022-05-06T10:52:24Z")

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> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#):
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> This is an official warning for politics in FQ and for ignoring moderator instructions. As @Chronos said in the post immediately prior to yours:

Moderators, I dispute this warning. Thread started in ATMB.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-president-of-the-united-states-get-a-second-job-while-in-office/963654/42 "2022-05-06T19:23:42Z")

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deleted - posted in wrong thread.

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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-president-of-the-united-states-get-a-second-job-while-in-office/963654/43 "2022-05-07T11:41:55Z")

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King of the Netherlands other job is part time as a pilot for KLM he flies 737s . He did it before he was king too. Nobody noticed he was doing the job until he did an interview about it. He says had he not been king he would have been a full time pilot. Like a lot of kings/queens now he does not really have any political power.

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-president-of-the-united-states-get-a-second-job-while-in-office/963654/44 "2022-05-07T12:17:11Z")

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A revealing example is that marrying Elizabeth (and becoming “Duke of Edinburgh”) did not do wonders for Prince Philip’s naval career, and that he knew it, knew he could not do both, and made a choice.

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