Laravel Queued Job, Execute it before its execution time

To achieve this, all you have to do is first decode your payload which will be

{
   "displayName":"App\\Jobs\\Payway\\UpdateCustomerInvestment",
   "job":"Illuminate\\Queue\\CallQueuedHandler@call",
   "maxTries":null,
   "delay":null,
   "timeout":null,
   "timeoutAt":null,
   "data":{
      "commandName":"App\\Jobs\\Payway\\UpdateCustomerInvestment",
      "command":"O:40:\"App\\Jobs\\Payway\\UpdateCustomerInvestment\":17:{s:57:\"\u0000App\\Jobs\\Payway\\UpdateCustomerInvestment\u0000transactionType\";s:7:\"payment\";s:57:\"\u0000App\\Jobs\\Payway\\UpdateCustomerInvestment\u0000principalAmount\";d:9999;s:56:\"\u0000App\\Jobs\\Payway\\UpdateCustomerInvestment\u0000customerNumber\";s:4:\"BR-2\";s:50:\"\u0000App\\Jobs\\Payway\\UpdateCustomerInvestment\u0000currency\";s:3:\"aud\";s:58:\"\u0000App\\Jobs\\Payway\\UpdateCustomerInvestment\u0000singleUseTokenID\";N;s:55:\"\u0000App\\Jobs\\Payway\\UpdateCustomerInvestment\u0000payway_helper\";O:29:\"App\\Http\\Helpers\\PaywayHelper\":0:{}s:54:\"\u0000App\\Jobs\\Payway\\UpdateCustomerInvestment\u0000impodenceKey\";s:36:\"afedfc34-d08e-4831-a4aa-29de930d6b98\";s:49:\"\u0000App\\Jobs\\Payway\\UpdateCustomerInvestment\u0000headers\";a:0:{}s:60:\"\u0000App\\Jobs\\Payway\\UpdateCustomerInvestment\u0000localInvestmentObj\";O:45:\"Illuminate\\Contracts\\Database\\ModelIdentifier\":4:{s:5:\"class\";s:33:\"App\\Models\\Investment\\Investments\";s:2:\"id\";i:374;s:9:\"relations\";a:2:{i:0;s:8:\"investor\";i:1;s:13:\"investor.user\";}s:10:\"connection\";s:5:\"mysql\";}s:54:\"\u0000App\\Jobs\\Payway\\UpdateCustomerInvestment\u0000paywayTotals\";O:45:\"Illuminate\\Contracts\\Database\\ModelIdentifier\":4:{s:5:\"class\";s:38:\"App\\Models\\Banking\\Payway\\PaywayTotals\";s:2:\"id\";i:1;s:9:\"relations\";a:0:{}s:10:\"connection\";s:5:\"mysql\";}s:6:\"\u0000*\u0000job\";N;s:10:\"connection\";N;s:5:\"queue\";s:6:\"payway\";s:15:\"chainConnection\";N;s:10:\"chainQueue\";N;s:5:\"delay\";O:13:\"Carbon\\Carbon\":3:{s:4:\"date\";s:26:\"2019-11-12 23:35:22.752222\";s:13:\"timezone_type\";i:3;s:8:\"timezone\";s:16:\"Australia\/Sydney\";}s:7:\"chained\";a:0:{}}"
   }
}

When you have decoded your payload, you'll see the "command" is serialized, so next you've to unserialize "command".

[delay] => Array
        (
            [date] => 2019-11-12 23:35:22.752222
            [timezone_type] => 3
            [timezone] => Australia/Sydney
        )

After that, you can then update the date under the delay node and either using Carbon or PHP date, update the date as per your need. After doing that, you just need to serialize the "command" node again and then json_encode the whole payload and save it.

You'll also need to follow @Julian Stark's answer as well, that is, modify the available_at of that job.

I hope this helps.

updating the time of queued job will be the bad practice instead of that you can flush the scheduled job and run dispatch now function.

In a similar use case, I just updated the jobs available_at time, so the queue:listen command executes the job as soon as possible.

DB::table('jobs')->where('id', $jobId)->update(['available_at' => time()]);

I don't know if this is the correct way to do it, but it worked for me