I’m glad you’ve discovered David Graeber and Bullshit Jobs. He was brilliant.

But my favorite expression of the reality of work is by Bukowski:

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ”