This was a great thread in that we get an insider's perspective of the investment banking world. Many people (even those who get paid a lot) have bull**** jobs, and this can even include physicians.
Make fu money and find meaning elsewhere.
"YouGov, a data-analytics firm, polled British people, in 2015, about whether they thought that their jobs made a meaningful contribution to the world. Thirty-seven per cent said no, and thirteen per cent were unsure—a high proportion, but one that was echoed elsewhere. (In the functional and well-adjusted Netherlands, forty per cent of respondents believed their jobs had no reason to exist.) And yet poll numbers may be less revealing than reports from the bull**** trenches. Here is Hannibal, one of Graeber’s contacts:
A bull**** job is not what Graeber calls “a **** job.” Hannibal, and many other of the bull****tiest employees, are well compensated, with expanses of unclaimed time. Yet they’re unhappy. Graeber thinks that a sense of uselessness gnaws at everything that makes them human. This observation leads him to define bull**** work as “a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case.”
