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Written by ASAP
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Wednesday, 21 June 2006 |
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- Can you rate a job to determine its BS measurement?
- A BS Jobs Quiz from Gil Schwartz
- Filling the non-BS gaps
Stanley Bing never thought writing his latest book on BS jobs would be so damn hard.
He’s written seven other books without breaking a sweat, largely on business culture and other BS.
“It actually took way more work than I intended it to,” Bing said, sitting behind the desk of Gil Schwartz, a vice president at CBS in New York. Stanley Bing is Schwartz’s BS pen name and alter-ego.
Bing managed to wade through the BS and finish his book. The final product is a funny and honest look at jobs that are overpaid, over respected and generally require little work for a lot of perks. (See No. 94 “Vice President of the United States.”)
“I don’t ever intend to do that much work on a book again,” he says.
Obviously, “Writer of This Book” (Bing) made No. 96 on the list, sandwiched between “Xerox Repairman” and “Wine Industry Professional,” whose job it is to “Talk the talk. And Drink!”
Writing the book was the hard part for Bing. But coming up with a list of 100 careers (if you can call them careers) from the many BS industries in the world was easier than BS job No. 24: “Cold Caller.”
“We’re awash in a sea of (BS),” Bing says. We also seem to be awash in a sea of BS books — another comes out in June called “The Business of Bullshit,” all about the inane cliches (“play hardball”) that have come to dominate corporate America. | Only registered users can write comments.
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