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Bulls**t Job of the Day

A reader from Oregon writes: Marketing Communicaions Manager for a high tech company. It pays well, $80,000 and above. You don't have to produce a single thing, just look busy behind closed doors. No one can figure out exactly what it is you do, but when you produce a quarterly report, they go "aaah!' It's a job for people with organizational skills and who don't mind going nowhere in their careers.  

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Nothing could be farther from the truth. Not to mention, whoever wrote this description can't even spell "Communications". Nice try.

This is largely true, but it's also why marketing people are the first to go when layoffs are on the table.

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