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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).
Infomercial spokesperson/celebrity pitchman
Famous example: Master inventor and marketer Ron Popeil
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Infomercial spokesperson/celebrity pitchman
Lend personal imprimatur to sell crap in paid programming time.

$$: Millions! Billions! Hundreds of thousands sold! Not available in any store!

The upside: Free stuff, big money, unless you're the nodding dummy tasting the perfectly grilled chicken, then my guess is all you're getting is scale plus perfectly grilled chicken.

The downside: Terminal loss of self-respect.

The dark side: Electric antiwrinkle mask gets wet and sears your face off.
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The central question of every hardworking person's career is how to work less hard while still being able to buy an expensive bottle of wine without trembling. The answer is simple: Retire while still working! (more)
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Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer. Morningstar: © 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. All rights reserved. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates.