Under the Wire

I have discovered one of life’s best kept secrets. When it hit me like a ton of bricks, I felt the need to share it with you. My discovery? If you really, really enjoy what you are working at, don’t let it show. In fact, act like you don’t like it at all. Let me explain.

Work, you see, is supposed to be, well ... you know ... work. Drudgery, boring and awful should describe work. If you are having fun, it must not be work. If you seem to be enjoying yourself, you have to be goofing off. Nobody is supposed to be happy when working.

Tom Sawyer probably is the one we should blame. If you will rem...