Futurology

Despite being in the category least likely to feel their job is BS, I feel a lot of my job is because a lot of it is sat/act prep stuff that only serves to help the rich get into better colleges (and therefore I consider that aspect a BS job at best).

This is kind of what I was thinking when reading the article (I am in the bottom two categories as well). With education and many other useful jobs it would kind of depend where you are in those industries.

Once I started pursuing academia I was disappointed to find out just how much of it is bullshit. I was never expecting a perfect job, especially working in higher ed, but I guess I thought that researching and teaching the subject I love more than anything would cancel that out. Not quite. The amount of bureaucracy has to be greater than any private sector job. The constant focus on money, bringing in more of it, and cheating students out of it just makes me constantly angry and leaves me feeling like an asshole for wanting any part of it. Most of the safeguards for conducting research seem completely necessary, but fuck if the administration doesn't make a shitshow out of it.

So for me it's more multifaceted. Learning, teaching and research are some of the most socially meaningful things I can think of doing. But the reality of what that looks like is a clusterfuck.