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We also have bullshit jobs. Take a look around you and see the proliferation of pointless jobs. In the office there are plenty of them, within the world of internet development there are plenty of them. Out in town there are plenty of them. You can feel richer just because your job adds to the bottom line instead of costing the bottom line, you are therefore not with a bullshit job, therefore you feel richer than that temp who muddles through data that really needs just one SQL query to make proper sense of.

For a reality check it sometimes helps to think how you used to live in the past. Maybe you spent $$$ on a hobby every week, had a fleet of vehicles, went on holidays, had spare rooms in your house. Or maybe you had friends that had all these things and worked a job where they were back home by six every day.

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