to think their jobs are useless or unhelpful to others. M h

Find this an interesting way they describe it. Iirc, Graeber also included arms-race positions as useless. Might be thinking of another writer though. 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). But it’s not useless at the individual level - people regularly express their gratitude. I’m curious if that is related to why people like corporate lawyers didn’t report feeling like their jobs were BS. In the short-term, they do provide a benefit to the company, only because of the legal arms race that exists.

Alternatively, I wonder if they’re including people like defense lawyers, environmental lawyers, housing lawyers, etc in the same group as corporate lawyers. Some lawyers do great work for people as a whole. Probably easily answered by reading the study, but shower is over and I have bs work to do