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As cool as it is, scheduled jobs (and jobs in general) should really be isolated from the rest of your system and from each other to limit the blast radius. Jobs are notorious for crashing and backing up, so you really don't want that impacting other systems on the same machine.

Clouds have managed systems for scheduled jobs now (AWS Eventbridge, GCP Cloud Scheduler) which handle this for you.



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