It's not your job to get the most value out of your time. It is the person who is hiring you's job to get the most value out of your time. That's where the surp

It's not your job to get the most value out of your time. It is the person who is hiring you's job to get the most value out of your time. That's where the surplus that pays them comes from. Otherwise you are in business and the surplus should accrue to you, not your employer. The employer has to extract value otherwise they have no right to that value.