Yeah, you're right of course...but there are a few reasons why I put up with it. I can work from anywhere, including a relatively remote place with a low cost of living (as I more or less do now), while my wages are constant and similar to a decent Paris level wage. Which is, needless to say, good by most European standards. So I can save a considerable amount of money every month, something I consider pretty important at this point in my life. At my age, it would be nice to buy a place without a 30-yr mortgage or anything like that. As a single person life can be really expensive - living together with someone (or even things like holidays) is considerably cheaper when you can share costs.
The other reason is related to it, but more specifically that I don't even need to leave my home to do my job. No morning commute, no getting super early to get to work on time, no money spent on gas/transport or eating at work if you don't pack a lunch. And no dealing with work social events, for the most part. They have to fly me out for those, which happens, but obviously not every month.
I also know they always pay eventually. The problem is incompetence, not malice. They (the company) sometimes casually blow insane amounts of money on dinners and drinks, so I doubt they're strapped for cash. So if the delays are within reason I put up with it. Ideally I would be permanently contracted by them of course (which would come with timely payment of wages, from what I have heard), but they've been holding out on that for now. We'll see where it goes.
Tired of working my ass off 50-60 hours every single week.
