{"id":1756,"date":"2024-05-15T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T10:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/do-you-have-a-pointless-job-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T10:43:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T10:43:21","slug":"do-you-have-a-pointless-job-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/do-you-have-a-pointless-job-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have a pointless job? &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BN6tNdPGNZM?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Ever get the feeling you\u2019re paid to look busy? You\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the point of your job?<\/p>\n<p>If you spend your days in wasteful meetings, or send emails that create yet more worthless emails in an endless loop, you\u2019ve likely asked yourself that very question.<\/p>\n<p>People from all walks of life have pondered the meaning of work\u2014and some cultures have come up with some creative ways to define tasks that have little substance or social value.<\/p>\n<p>So if you think you\u2019re merely paid to look busy, you\u2019re not alone. In fact, there are three categories of pointless jobs. Is yours one of them?<\/p>\n<p>Narration by Sha Hua, drawings by Patricia Ferguson and animation by Pierangelo Pirak.<\/p>\n<p>For more videos from BBC REEL visit: http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel\/<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BN6tNdPGNZM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever get the feeling you\u2019re paid to look busy? You\u2019re not alone. What\u2019s the point of your job? If you spend your days in wasteful meetings, or send emails that create yet more worthless emails in an endless loop, you\u2019ve likely asked yourself that very question. People from all walks of life have pondered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":1757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,114],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-future","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}