(preview) Bullshit Jobs
Pod Damn America
Pod Damn America
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Because this taps into the very important element of the conversation we're having today, |
| 0:04.5 | where a large part of a job being a bullshit job is you doing the job and thinking in your own brain, |
| 0:12.1 | this doesn't need to exist. |
| 0:14.5 | Meaning two people can have the same job, and it can be a bullshit job for one of them and not for the other one. |
| 0:21.7 | This gets into the function of jobs, which is as a social utility, that it's a vehicle to provide purpose in somebody's life. |
| 0:32.4 | And so sometimes you're building a bridge and you're done and something exists that wasn't there when |
| 0:39.7 | you started and you feel a great satisfaction from that and then sometimes i'll give an example i |
| 0:46.1 | had a job in 2014 when i just started comedy to fill out websites that had nothing on them purely for the purpose of getting clicks |
| 0:58.7 | on Google because the CEO had discovered a loophole in search engine optimization that would get |
| 1:08.3 | his sites listed on top so we could run ads to websites |
| 1:11.4 | with nothing on them. |
| 1:13.7 | So. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, it's bullshit. |
| 1:15.2 | It's debatably bullshit. |
| 1:19.0 | And as someone who was there, you know, this was a team of like 10 people, five of which |
| 1:25.6 | were paid interns, which I was. |
| 1:27.1 | And I used to, I got $10 an hour. |
| 1:29.8 | And then I got a $20. You could get up to $20 in Seameless a day once in the middle. |
| 1:39.1 | So like, because if you just order something on Seamless in 2014, you're probably not going to pay 20 bucks if you just get like a sandwich. |
| 1:45.5 | It's probably going to be like 10 or 12 bucks, which is inefficiently using the money you're being paid because a lot of the money like percentage wise is going to the seamless bill. |
| 1:54.9 | So what I would do is order double meals every day at around 1 p.m. |
| 2:00.3 | I was like way to a little, and then eat like three quarters of a pound of food |
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