Yes. I would desperately prefer to take on a job with more leisure time, even with a harsh paycut, and yet, there is almost no way to express that desire within

Yes. I would desperately prefer to take on a job with more leisure time, even with a harsh paycut, and yet, there is almost no way to express that desire within the market as it stands. So I take on a job with far more hours than I'd like, since the alternative is destitution, and then get taken as implicitly supporting the opposite trade-off to what I really want.