Boss U: 100 Bullshit Jobs and How to Get Them - Hardcover

Bing, Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060734795 ISBN 13: 9780060734794

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2006

Synopsis

The business guru and author of Sun Tzu Was a Sissy presents a wide variety of career options that pay well and demand little knowledge or effort, ranging from corporate headhunter or aromatherapist to feng shui advisor, new media executive consultant, and vice president of the United States.

About this title

Synopsis:

What do being a Feng Shui advisor, executive headhunter, high-level marketing guru, senior sales/marketing director, vineyard wine pourer, wedding planner and Asda greeter have in common? They're all bullshit jobs. God must have loved them, because he made so many of them. The people lucky and skillful enough to have secured bullshit employment are everywhere, in virtually every field from ayurvedic healing to zoo management. The people who work in these coveted bullshit positions enjoy the best lives imaginable, they are paid well, they work very little and their professions are highly respected, because nobody really knows what they do. What, for instance, are the actual functions performed by a McKinsey consultant? Other than sitting around making people nervous? None. That's what he does. And by next Tuesday, he'll probably be your boss's boss! What does an aroma therapist actually do? Sniff things? Yes! For loads of money, that's what! What is a clinical psychologist actually doing when he or she is nodding at a suffering depressive? Nodding, that's all. For [pound]100 an hour! Now that is bullshit.

About the Author:

Stanley Bing is the bestselling author of Crazy Bosses, What Would Machiavelli Do?, Throwing the Elephant, Sun Tzu Was a Sizzy, 100 Bullshit Jobs . . . And How to Get Them, The Big Bing, and The Curriculum, as well as the novels Lloyd: What Happened, You Look Nice Today, and Immortal Life. By day he is an haute executive in a gigantic multinational corporation whose identity is one of the worst-kept secrets in business.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060734795
• ISBN 13: 9780060734794
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320