I run Bastiat Stays, and I’m looking for a sales manager. I tried to put this off as much as I could, because I really hate looking for people. Kids nowadays think they’re doing a huge favor to the world by doing an honest day’s work. I thought I’ll write a cookie-cutter recruitment ad and leave it at that. And then a great fraternity of lazies would form around me. It’s a pattern very familiar to me. But I’m not looking for a work-from-home slacker or a work-life-balance slacker. This is not a job where you smoke marijuana in a treehouse in the high Himalayas at the end of the habitable world. Here there’s work to do. I’m looking for a brilliant workaholic who knows it’s difficult to partition large, time-sensitive projects across multiple employees rather than entirely to employee preferences for long hours. In this increasingly hedonistic and promiscuous age, this is quite a tall order. But it would be better if you know the place a better before you come. Are you a minimalist wh...