So, a thought: granted that you want to multitask and make your own schedule, by setting things up so you can be interrupted at any moment by your employer with

So, a thought: granted that you want to multitask and make your own schedule, by setting things up so you can be interrupted at any moment by your employer with demands for your attention. You don't want to work a shift, you want it looser and less defined: you are not in fact making your own schedule, you're arranging to pre-empt whatever your schedule might be for the benefit of your employer and you figure this is your competitive advantage, being able to offer this precarious willingness to drop everything and take a gig. And you could be right: to the employer, that makes you higher value. Is this not a concession, a way of competing by tempting the employer with more than they would be able to get from other employees? In essence you're not so much negotiating with the employer, but competing directly with other workers, some of whom might have stuff to do in their life that requires scheduling and predictability? And this too is fine (ish), but then the question becomes: to what extent can the employer then pressure all employees to function on YOUR terms and abandon their own? Are you defining the new normal, the fundamental expectation for this type of work going forward? Does the employer benefit at the expense of employees as a class by establishing this precarity as the expectation?