Bulletproof Your Job

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BE EASY

Any parent will tell you that there are easy babies and there are hard babies. Easy babies eat anything you feed them, take long naps, make nice cooing noises, never fuss, and sleep through the night. Hard babies cry and demand and fret and barf and never, ever sleep. The hard baby is miserable and she makes you miserable and you just can’t wait for her to go to kindergarten so you can mix yourself a giant Long Island iced tea and catch up on all those Us Weekly magazines she’s been keeping you from.

I’ve got news for you. Most of the people you work with can ignore that you’re a hard baby when the good times are rolling. You can gripe and snipe and bellyache all you want as long as you get your work done on time and don’t steal ...