She is correct. I can (and do) say shit with no consequences like, “If anyone says I have to RTO, I’ll quit immediately with no notice period” and no one does anything because I’m a rare bird; good luck finding many people who can design and build a secure app services environment from nothing with poor documentation, can do compliance work, can from scratch create an entire enterprise networking environment with no assistance in a day or two, and that external customers ask for by name to attend meetings.

And so I can get away with a lot and bring in loads of dosh for the hours I do work. But you aren’t gonna be able to do that if you aren’t an expert in fifty-eleven different areas where a company would have to hire half a dozen people to replace you. And getting to that state is not in fact easy.