# Your Labor is a Product

DevFeed: [Your Labor is a Product](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/your-labor-is-a-product-30596.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://ryanharter.com/blog/2020/05/your-labor-is-a-product/>)

Published: 2020-05-26T14:21:05Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Blogs on Ryan Harter](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blogs-on-ryan-harter.md>)

Topics: [Job](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/job.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>)

Tags: [employment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/employment.md>), [freelance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/freelance.md>), [job](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/job.md>), [margin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/margin.md>), [money](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/money.md>), [remote](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/remote.md>), [software-developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-developer.md>), [tech-industry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech-industry.md>)

## AI overview

The author argues that employment can be understood as a market transaction in which workers sell their labor for a salary. Drawing on freelance Android development and remote work, the article examines how internet-enabled delivery and location-related costs affect labor pricing.

## Source excerpt

Before joining Pixite I spent several years as a freelance Android developer. Being 100% remote for all of those years, I learned many things about the process of hiring and employment. The biggest eye-opener for me was the realization that when you apply and interview for a job, you are selling a product. Though the language is often about employers providing perks to "sell you" on the idea of working there, the actual relationship is the opposite.