Monday, January 19, 2026

Bullshit

The terms “shit job” and “bullshit job” are not interchangeable. I’ll explain. If you are employed to tear old shingles off a roof, wash dishes in a restaurant kitchen, or pump out septic systems, you have a shit job. That’s something nobody wants to do but it needs to get done. A bullshit job usually doesn’t need to get done at all. People with bullshit jobs spend a lot of their time reassuring one another that their jobs aren’t bullshit. A bullshit job is if you’re a tenured poet, an advertising copywriter, or a United States senator. Bullshit pays better.

1 comment:

born2step said...

Yeah, that advertising copywriter is the worst.