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Re:The Riddle of the Well-Paying, Pointless Job (2019) by dagw on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:37AM (#36357249)
most well-run companies are always looking at ways of getting rid of dead wood

So get a job at a badly run company. Find a huge multinational which works in a wide variety of fields and apply for a job in a department without clear deliverables. Send lots of emails, attend lots of meetings, be friendly to everybody and always look busy. If anybody asks, you're mostly working on a vaguely defined internal project being run out of the Singapore office at the moment.

Re:The Riddle of the Well-Paying, Pointless Job (2019) by fallingknife on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:45AM (#36357392)
> send lots of emails, attend lots of meetings, be friendly to everybody and always look busy

Sounds like work, which kind of defeats the purpose here.

Re:The Riddle of the Well-Paying, Pointless Job (2019) by imtringued on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:37AM (#36358435)
The topic is pointless jobs. Not pointless paychecks.