Upon having completed a job whatever-done ...

Experts say that completing tasks inspires feelings like pride, satisfaction and confidence. I am the exception that disproves the rule.

I just finished tiling the bathroom floor in the house-to-be and I couldn’t be more, eh, whatever about the whole thing.

Seriously.

It took days of planning, hours of labor and untold gallons of sweat equity. … And I gotta be totally and brutally honest here: all this and I didn’t even have to tile the entire floor, just a 3-by-4 foot alcove where the toilet goes. It was ridiculous and, by the way, no pressure there that the toilet on the ground...