Still, it’s a universal truth that most people have to work to earn a living. That means the average person spends about one-third of their life on the job. Put another way, you will spend 90,000 hours at work over the course of your lifetime. Whether you love your job or hate it (or fall somewhere in between), how can you improve the way you experience this very important aspect of your life....

In the early twentieth century, people prophesied that technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks and driving flying cars. Instead, something curious happened. Not only have the flying cars not materialised, but average working hours have increased rather than decreased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services, finance or admin: jobs that don't seem to contribute anything to society. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how, rather than producing anything, work has become an end in itself; the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital; and, finally, how we can get out of it...