Picking your family is about consciously choosing who and what you want rather than just making it work or killing time with whoever happens to be choosing you.
But having worked in the people's space, I can tell you, when you give people the choice of when and where they work, you are giving them the key to accelerate their full potential.
Yeah, the watching time should be carefully chosen since I've heard a lot of unnecessary failures concerning picking the wrong time when it all went stormy and murky, and then nothing was seen during the whole field trip.
So you can say, " You know, I'm a photographer so I do a lot of freelance work and I'm employed by many different companies, but I choose my own time" .