“Applicant must be willing to travel”, read the job ad, and they weren’t kidding: I’ve got five trips scheduled this quarter alone, and they range in purpose from the interesting to the Dilbertesque. Next month, for example, I am to attend a conference that will teach me the ins and outs of effectively managing one’s employees, and I leave the taxonomy of that one as an exercise to the reader.”I’ll give the reader a hint: I do not, myself, have any employees. I am the managee in this relationship, not the manager.”And another: preparation for said conference involved taking a personality test, which revealed such things as – try to contain your shock – “subject is highly independent”, “subject is task-oriented” and “subject scored in the lowest decile on the