The book (and interview) are about REAL bullshit jobs. It's defined pretty rigorously. There's a range of types, but this REALLY is stuff that is bullshit, not

The book (and interview) are about REAL bullshit jobs. It's defined pretty rigorously. There's a range of types, but this REALLY is stuff that is bullshit, not just jobs in a bureaucracy complex enough that you can't tell if your job matters. Your exact concern is discussed in the book. Consider the case of the guy hired to run a communications system nobody uses because the people in the office actually prefer to avoid each other. And when he tries to quit, they give him raises because they like having him around so that they can avoid each other and have some excuse about this communications system. He sits around all day doing nothing, sometimes someone asks if there are messages, but there aren't because nobody uses the system. That's the sort of bullshit jobs we're talking about. REAL bullshit.