What are some modern bullshit jobs?
What are some modern bullshit jobs?
Jobs that either don't contribute in any meaningful way or jobs where one would be better off if they were paid to be on call.
anything related to planning, creation and targeting of ads
My apartment complex uses a package delivery service that basically acts as a middle man to receive your packages and deliver it to you. They use contractors who pick up packages from their warehouse and deliver them door-to-door. As expected, it's common for packages to get lost/stolen. Instead of getting your package on the date/time promised, you have to wait several more hours for it to actually arrive. If it gets to the warehouse late in the afternoon, you'll get it the next day. If you have Amazon next-day delivery, you essentially negate it with this service. If you're expecting perishable items, good luck getting it fresh. If your package is large or heavy, you'll have to wait several days as they only deliver oversized packages on specific days. All these are mandatory with a fee ranging from $10 to $30 on top of rent.
Anyone who earns any portion of income by hanging shit on my doorknob.
Anything in the online sports betting space. Addicts, scumbags, degenerates, and the people who make money off them.
Landlords the worst
Health insurance agent, health insurance CEO, health insurance board member, etc
Influencers?
Any job can be a bullshit job actually. But for me:
- People who seem to be on Linkedin most of the day, looking for leads "lets get a cup of coffee together".
- Corporate communications.
- People who's job consists mostly of copying data from one excel sheet to the next.
- Government consultants, especially in IT (but not limited to IT only)
GNOME Foundation names "professional shaman" as new executive director
That's kind of a two-fer right there.
Middle management
Corporate communications / public relations
They've largely subverted the occasionally useful profession of journalism. There's a big difference between researching things your audience wants to know, and asking someone with a commercial agenda what they'd like to tell your audience.
Politicians
We could very easily vote on most issues ourselves using the wide array of technology at our fingertips, with a similar or possible better sense of security than what politicians currently provide.
But the only way for that to happen is for politicians to make it happen, and who would vote to eliminate their own job? No one.
Advertising
Politicians
It depends on what you mean by "contribute". Most of the jobs right now don't contribute to nothing if not maintain the zombie capitalism system.
Mod for any website
Therapists used to be the most helpful thing in the world (or so I've heard), now they're so unhelpful they have to rely on the state to get us to use them and have so many different indie-based projects and programs competing with them, like BetterTherapy (which isn't bad tbh). The old joke is they're paid friends but now I see they're just paid, you could be in a genuine situation where something obliterates the quality of your life (e.g. custody battles) and they'll be like "does lithium sound good" (which by the way, lithium is outdated by two thousand years, so if it's recommended right away to you, run). The reason they're not set up like lawyers where you only pay them "if you win" is because they know this would destroy them.
Some local governments have rules that X must be done by someone in that area. Usually the mayor's nephew. To get around it they are made into a rep for the company that does the actual work. No value whatsoever to the project, the users, or the taxpayer.
Department of social services workers.. Their job really doesn't help anybody, and it would be a better usage of tax payer dollars to have a UBI.