The Different Payment Terms of a Freelance Contract

You get the class syllabus or your class, your course load just a couple days before the semester starts. And so it's not like you could even do any, like, big planning or whatever. So it's, you know, you're just thrown into this immediately. Is that part of it? The hope is that like, they don't have to pay you for as much planning if you like, get it two days in advance. Well, I don't, because we don't get paid by the hour, we are really just paid in like, big, lump sums. But but but definitely that thing of like, here's it. It's like a chunk of money