You’re not selling a service. You’re selling your time. When you take a job as a full-time employee, you’re agreeing to trade 40-ish hours a week for a yearly

You’re not selling a service. You’re selling your time. When you take a job as a full-time employee, you’re agreeing to trade 40-ish hours a week for a yearly salary. If want a job where you’re taking money in exchange for meeting specific deliverables, you can be a contractor doing fixed-price bids. It pays more, if you’re good at it, but it’s much riskier. That’s why it pays more. Taking a full-time job and not working full-time hours is fraud.