You're Never Going To Get Rich Renting Out Your Time

 Whenever you can in life, optimize for independence rather than pay. If you have independence and you're accountable on your output, as opposed to your input - that's the dream. 

What you want in life is to be in control of your time. You want to get into a leveraged job where you control your own time and you're tracked on the outputs If you do something incredible to move the needle on the business, they have to pay you. Especially if they don't know how you did it because it's innate to your obsession or your skill or your innate abilities, they're going to have to keep paying you to do it. 

If you have specific knowledge, you have accountability and you have leverage; they have to pay you what you're worth. If they pay you what you're worth, then you can get your time back - you can be hyper - efficient. You're not doing meetings for meetings sake, you're not trying to impress other people, you're not writing things down to make it look like you did work. All you care about is the actual work itself. 

When you do just the actual work itself, you'll be far more productive, far more efficient. You'll work when you feel like it - when you're high energy - and you won't be trying to struggle through when you're low energy. You'll gain your time back. 

Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes, train and sprint, then rest and reassess. 

If you want to be part of a great company, then you need to be able to need to be able to SELL or BUILD. If you don't do either, learn.