I always preferred "piece work," if I could get it... because I was good at figuring out "systems" and how to be most efficient within their structure.
One of my early work life lessons was working at a factory-- doing piecework, checking and boxing hair dryers, of all things (think "inspected by no.43"). Everybody was being paid by the item... but I got... "moved" after a couple of weeks because I was doing twice to 2.5x the volume of many of the old timers... I was about 22 at the time, and needed to fund college.
yup...making the other guys look bad?
I had a buddy once...old oil field hand.
he went to work in a factory for a while...his wife nagged him.
unions...
He could NOT believe how they worked.
He got ALL the work done that they would ALLOW him to do...in the first two hours every day.
then spent the rest of the day building himself a REALLY nice tool box.
They not only allowed it..they expected it..
he had a conscious
he quit after a few months.