Simon & Schuster Bullshit jobs: a theory

Was hesitant - the title made me think it would be 300 pages of people complaining. Instead it is a thoughtful look at the social value of different jobs and how we need to rethink the value of work.

One winter afternoon, I patiently sat baking for 15 eternal minutes in a tiny, wood-fired, hillside sauna somewhere in the Vermont woods & then plunged directly into a freezing cold , nearby brook thru a freshly chopped hole in the ice.During the insanely fast rollercoaster sequence of limb flailing, spiking temperature gradients & spontaneous yelling that came next, I quickly realized that the old me had been summarily replaced & would never get a chance to appreciate the amazing refreshment now afforded the dripping wet & gasping eponymous substitute I had suddenly turned into !In a kindred shocking way, David Graeber’s immensely thrilling book , ‘Bull Shit Jobs’ swiftly yanks the curtain off our clownish & brutal world of modern employment w/ a joyful combination of calibrated insight & trenchant wit that fellow conceptual artists as variously inspired as Karl Marx ( ‘Grundrisse’ ) & Grace Slick ( ‘White Rabbit‘ ) would both seriously cherish while laughing their respective asses off .Fair warning! ‘Bull Shit Jobs’ is a transformative ‘gateway book ‘… a shaman-less ayahuasca of the human soul that unmistakably shows you exactly why most of today’s jobs mirror those “… pills that mother gives you “ ( Ibid. , ‘ White Rabbit ‘ - performed by either Grace Slick or Gillian Welch ) in that they ( you ) truly “ don’t do anything at all ! “-J.Joslin ( @ Detroit near Canada…)

Really enjoyed this book, easy to read and to understand. Nice and light heart for when you do not want a heavy going read.

Rekommenderas. Till skillnad från olika managementböcker beskriver den det grundläggande faktum att flera av de akademiska yrken vi tror är betydelsefulla, i själva verket inte betyder någonting alls.

This book should be a must read for everyone