Just a few ways to be profitably and pleasantly (if uselessly) employed, from Stanley Bing’s book, “100 Bulls**t Jobs and How to Get Them” (Harper Collins).
A reader writes:
I have an offering for the ‘BS Job’ title that I am not sure I have seen listed on the site before (it’s my bro’s job, not mine.. I swear!):
Title: User Interface Design
Be artistic w/o being an artist; be psychological w/o being a psychologist; make cool virtual stuff w/o being an programmer.
Pay: Variant.. Though if it’s affiliated w/ Google (and what isn’t these days?), you’re set!
Good: Get to act pretentious and be around pretentious people. Transition between work, computer games, and on-line chat is seamless.
Bad: May require some prestige – such as entry in to CMU or the like – and luck to get into. Also may have to learn everything you can about Adobe Illustrator.
Ugly: Seeing what happens to your designs when the coders try to actualize them.
Readers, what do you think? Is this a bulls**t job?