It was considered a good thing that there might be a few years in a young man’s or woman’s life where money was not the primary motivation; where he or she could thus be free to pursue other forms of value: say, philosophy, poetry, athletics, sexual experimentation, altered states of consciousness, politics, or the history of Western art. Nowadays it is considered important they should work.
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Generation Praktikum.
Jobullshitology.
I have found it most useful to break down the types of bullshit job into five categories. I will call these: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters.
Care or Cash.
For instance: in our society, there seems to be a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.
Fakeconomy.
But if it’s a purely abstract competition set up between insiders to the exclusion of outsiders, it might feel like a competition, it might feel very challenging and stressful and hard to the people doing it, but it doesn’t actually do anything for anybody else. It’s no longer genuinely productive for anybody, it’s a fake.
Makenager Problem.
When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster.
Futurente.
Didn’t even know what a pension was until the employee benefits counselor clued me in, and it nearly blew the top of my skull off.
Super Visor.
If you can pick your boss, choose someone who owns and uses a calendar.