100 Bullshit Jobs ... And How to Get Them

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What do being a Feng Shui advisor, executive headhunter, high-level marketing guru, vineyard wine pourer, wedding planner, Wal- Mart greeter and vice president of the United States have in common They're all bullshit jobs. God must have loved them, because he made so many of them. The people lucky and skillful enough to have secured bullshit employment are everywhere, in virtually every field from ayurvedic healing to zoo management. The folks who work in these coveted bullshit positions enjoy the best lives imaginable - they are paid well, they work very little and their professions are highly respected, because nobody really knows what they do. What, for instance, are the actual functions performed by a McKinsey consultant Other than sitting around making people nervous None. That's what he does. And by next Tuesday, he'll probably be your boss's boss. What does an aromatherapist actually do Sniff things Yes For big, fragrant bucks, that's what. When the Executive Vice President of New Media gives you his card, what is he offering Who knows Vaporware For six figures plus a fat bonus, in reward for the quality and size of the digital bullshit he's capable of marketing. What is a clinical psychologist actually doing when he or she is nodding at a suffering depressive Nodding, that's all. For $250 an hour Now THAT is bullshit. And you can get into a big pile of it, too, thanks to Stanley Bing, who knows whereof he speaks and has based his entire career and several best-selling books on his own very special brand of bullshit

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"A hilarious, thought-provoking war plan for the battlefield of the modern workplace. Bing proves once and for all that the pen is mightier than the sword, especially when he's wielding the pen and the guy with the sword has been dead for thousands of years." -- Neil Cavuto, Fox News

"A masterful curmudgeon who causes laugh-out-loud moments." -- USA Today

"Among our best corporate-war correspondents. Bing provides a wickedly entertaining little guide to remaking yourself as a rapacious, coldhearted S.O.B." -- Time magazine

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Stanley Bing is a columnist for Fortune magazine and the best-selling author of What Would Machiavelli Do, Throwing the Elephant, Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, 100 Bullshit Jobs and How to Get Them, and The Big Bing, as well the novels Lloyd: What Happened and You Look Nice Today. By day, he is an haute executive in a gigantic multinational corporation whose identity is one of the worst-kept secrets in business.