50 Bulls**t Jobs | 14 | StanleyBing.com

Just a few ways to be profitably and pleasantly (if uselessly) employed, from Stanley Bing's book, "100 Bulls**t Jobs … and How to Get Them" (Harper Collins).

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Celebrity stylist/aesthetic consultant

Create a look for people who want to be looked at.

$$: Good bucks with no security whatsoever. If you lose your mojo, you might as well go back to Boise.

The upside: Everybody wants to be your baby.

The downside: When your client makes the Worst Dressed List.

The dark side: You wake up one morning and look like Bruce Vilanch.

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