You could also ask the reverse - how can I find an employer who will pay me a good salary, without expecting me to be productive all the time. It sounds kind-of

You could also ask the reverse - how can I find an employer who will pay me a good salary, without expecting me to be productive all the time. It sounds kind-of ridiculous, doesn't it. In the end, people work for money, sure, you can motivate them better or worse (e.g. I'm motivated by hard, challenging problems - not necessarily some big, scary, new machine learning research, but could be as simple as finding obscure bugs or optimizing a piece of code - and by always having a bit more on my plate than I can reasonably do), but you should pay them a fair salary either way.