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More at pfc.c.c.c-o-o-op. You know that old joke, if it was fun, they wouldn't call it work? Somehow that's not the kind of thing people say anymore.

Today, we're all supposed to love our work. It's not a job. It's a calling. Or if you listen to

much political commentary, you kind of get the message that maybe we should all just shut up and be

grateful to have any jobs at all.

What we have seen in the past 30 years

is the rise of so-called,

and here comes a very scientific term, bull-should-fib jobs.

These are the jobs that people who have them themselves say,

no one really cares if I don't show up at work.

I don't make the world any prettier, any

wealthier or whatever. Journalist Redker Bregman. When I first heard about this phenomenon, I thought,

well, it can't be that big. But then I started writing about it and there was this huge outpouring

of confessions of people writing and tweeting and Facebooking me about it that, yes, yes, yes, I have a bull-jop job as well, people said.

And what are all these BS jobs?

Burger flipping, pancake turning, bathroom cleaning?

Nope.

They come from all parts of the economy.

They're consultants. They're working in the financial sector.

They're working in the marketing sector.

They are working at administrative positions. They are very often also working in the financial sector, they're working in the marketing sector, they are working at

administrative positions, they are very often also working in the private sector. Last

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