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50 bulls**t jobs

Who does less work for their paycheck -- a construction-site flag waver or backup dancer/pop-tart hubby? Fortune's Stanley Bing offers up some of the most satisfying, lucrative and least useful professions in America. Excerpt from "100 Bulls**t Jobs... and How to Get Them (Harper Collins)." (more)

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100 Bulls**t Jobs...And How to Get Them

The scholarly discipline of Bulls**t Studies has blossomed in the last several years, fertilized by a number of critical works on the subject and the growing importance of the issue across a wide range of professions. Now, best-selling author and lifelong practitioner Stanley Bing enters the field with a comprehensive look at the many attractive jobs now available to those who are serious about their Bulls**t and prepared to dedicate their working life to it. (more)

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