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title: '<cite class="book">Bullshit Jobs</cite>'
author: Ben
type: quotes
date: 2020-07-11T10:30:29+00:00
url: /quotes/bullshit-jobs/
categories:
  - Reviews

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> Obviously, I am being slightly facetious here: this is not the only thing a PR department does. I&#8217;m sure in the case of Oxford much of its day-to-day concerns involve more practical matters such as attracting to the university the children of oil magnates or corrupt politicians from foreign lands who might otherwise have gone to Cambridge. 

> My own research indicated that within the service economy, there were only three significant exceptions to this rule: information technology (IT) providers, telemarketers, and sex workers. Many of the first category, and pretty much all of the second, were convinced they were basically engaged in scams.<footer>p 22</footer> 

> Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried. 

> It&#8217;s hard to imagine a surer sign that one is dealing with an irrational economic system than the fact that the prospect of eliminating drudgery is considered to be a _problem_. 

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