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Expand Up @@ -271,29 +271,6 @@ In the end, it doesn't matter much - if you get paid by the hour, you do a certa
Assuming you earn at least slightly more than you spend and that you have some kind of a financial buffer, at the end of the year, you'll end up with the same amount.
In 2022Q2 we tried to open a position for a "full-time" engagement with a fixed monthly payment model (which would automatically bonus people who perform well to make it fair, sort of like a liquidity pool)... But nobody was really interested, so we took the job ad down.

### So that we put ourselves in the right mindset

Let me tell you a story.

One of our staff members worked from a room on the top floor of his 3 story house.
A few times per day he wanted to get some tea 🍵, but the kitchen was downstairs, so he stopped the time tracker, walked down the squeaky wooden stairs, got to the kitchen, filled up the kettle, prepared a cup and a teabag while waiting for the kettle to boil the water, poured the hot water into the cup and waited for a few minutes for the tea to brew.
He then removed the teabag from the cup and slowly walked up 3 flights of stairs.
Started the timer and got back to work (well, sort of - that entire activity distracted him, so he needed to reload the task which he was working on to his short-term memory before he could do actual development).

Later that day he has taken a look at his time log and realized he spent 15min on a tea break.
It was not a very relaxing type of activity (trying not to burn himself with a hot liquid while going up ~~stairs~~ squeaky wooden stairs was not his favourite hobby) (actually, his hobby was board games, but I digress).

Now, what's the moral of that story?
Later that day he bought a kettle and installed it in his room.
We could see it on video calls - he could reach behind his chair and start the kettle without losing focus.
Tea and cup were also there.
That's like 30-45min extra more time *per day* spent on building something he loves to build.
Python backends. This is why we are here.
This is why you are here, am I right?
Seriously, if you could choose between RT and a workplace optimized for "walking up squeaky wooden stairs while trying to not burn yourself with a hot liquid", what would you do?

(or maybe it was ☕? I don't remember)

### So that we know how much we should charge the client

Even if you'd only work for one client per billing period, you'd still log some time to `RT / *` and `RTO / *` projects, and those are paid by the company and not by the client.
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