“It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working,” he argued.17 For each person in a role which they may think of as a bullshit job, there are of course others in near identical roles who nevertheless find satisfaction, purpose, and fulfillment in them. Even so, the fact that workplace surveys consistently find more people are dissatisfied with the work they do, suggests that this is often just a coping mechanism—a characteristic of a species whose evolutionary history has been shaped so profoundly by its need for purpose and meaning.
