No one can possibly be productive for 40 whole hours a week. If you could do that, you’d be a robot. In which case you would be traveling through space and conquering unknown galaxies.

So, allow us to suggest a few diversions for those moments when the sight of one more spreadsheet will send you diving out the window of your first-floor office. Go ahead and share your best stories with us. Who knows? You could be discovered, get your own reality show, and that lame sales job will become nothing but a tiny little chapter in your best-selling autobiography.