Do You Have A Bullshit Job ???

Do you have a job that you secretly believe is pointless?

If so, you have what anthropologist David Graeber calls a “bullshit job.” A professor at the London School of Economics and a leader of the early Occupy Wall Street movement, Graeber has written a new book called Bullshit Jobs: A Theory.

He argues that there are millions of people across the world — clerical workers, administrators, consultants, telemarketers, corporate lawyers, service personnel, and many others — who are toiling away in meaningless, unnecessary jobs, and they know it.

It didn’t have to be this way, Graeber says. Technology has advanced to the point where most of the difficult, labor-intensive jobs can be performed by machines. But instead of freeing ourselves from the suffocating 40-hour workweek, we’ve invented a whole universe of futile occupations that are professionally unsatisfying and spiritually empty.

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I have had SEVERAL bullshit jobs. I knew it, but my bosses would not admit it.

Q: What's the difference between helicopter money and a bullshit job?

A: Having a bullshit job keeps you in a workplace "prison" 8 or more hours a day, while helicopter money would allow you to enjoy life.

It's all about control. It always has been.