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[Harry Smith] You may not wanna watch this next segment. What do diet doctors, TV meteorologists and pet psych, psychics have in common? Fortune magazine columnist and workplace guru Stanley Bing says they are all jobs that pay well, are highly respected and perhaps most importantly they take a very special skill set to acquire. Bing explains his theory in a new book, that has a title we can't say on morning TV. So let's just say it's the 100 jobs and how to, how to get them, right? We've covered it up, you see the bull, right, (alright). Sorry, Stanley Bing, good morning to see, good to see you.
[Stanley Bing] Nice to see you.
[Harry Smith] Put in real life is (oh, Gil Schwartz serves CBS). Gil Schwartz, and you are in, in, in fact (Oh, I'm in the book, you know). Yeah, but you are in fact a vice president. (Oh, yes, executive vice president) executive vice president (don't, don't demote me,I mean~ )no, no ,no, but it's. (That's part of my, my, my beta factor, as we might call it) Is this~ because one would think a title of book like this is just something you might make up on the train as you're commuting into New York everyday, but this is in fact based on serious scientific data, is it not?
[Stanley Bing] It, it is. I, I would, I felt it was important to get the exact number for every job er, that we are talking about. I mean the concept of this kind of job (right) is, er, you know everybody knows what it is and people actually kind of yearn to have one, (yeah) and I figure that the higher the number, (right) the more we could quantify it,
[Harry Smith] 'Cause the fact is as you're sitting in life you'll see, I'm gonna call them bs jobs. Those are jobs you yearn for.
[Stanley Bing] I personally do, (yeah, yeah) maybe people who don't, but I'm one of those who do.
[Harry Smith] what, what is the ultimate one as far as you're concerned, who has or what is the ultimate bs job?
[Harry Smith] Well, the person who has the highest number (right) in the book is, is Donald Trump. (right) Oh, because he's kind of the gold standard. It's a little bit like those tests you take in high school, with the top scores 800, the top beta factor for these jobs is 200, and he has the highest, but there are a lot, I mean, executive vice president of new media,(yeah) for instance, I mean, you know, you can (What is that?) you can work for 5 years and not know what you're doing and never have to prove yourself, and then there is also on the lower end, there're things like road kill collector, I mean, you get,you get to go outside a lot, you know, and get to eat what you find. So, it's, it's, it's a pretty good job, you know. And these are good jobs,you see this is not a bad thing. This is...
[Harry Smith] Here is a serious question, where does this TV weatherman come into this show ?
[Stanley Bing] Yes, yes, meteorologists on TV is, is in there and well, because, you know, the qualifications are unclear, and I think, you know, clothing is very important (right) for what you do, attitude is good, (perks, high perks) high perks (and high visibility) and the hours are admirable, (yeah, yeah) unless you make trouble for yourself like some people who,who tries to work too hard, (in your book, yes, exactly right)
[Harry Smith] Now what would you say about like executive producers?
[Stanley Bing] Executive producers is not yet in the book. (not in the book) But, I, you know, I'm working on an extended list, I'm sure it will be number 103 or 104.
[Harry Smith] That's right, then it would be in the online edition. Now,here, I wanna show the science, because people don't believe there're serious (no, people think I'm) scientific method that's been applied here, and you go, you go back to Newton for your foundation, right?
[Stanley Bing] Yeah, Newton based his law of thermal dynamics on force equals mass times acceleration(F=ma), (right) and that also was the basis of E equals m c square(E=mc2) , (right) you know, so I figure I'll start with that, because I don't understand that well, and it's a good place to start, and I figure that the beta (beta) of any job, we are gonna call it the beta of any job (which wouldn't be the same as the bs) yes, of any job is equal to the abuse that you're likely to take on the job in tens times the perks that you may have, in the case of weatherman on TV are very great perks,(right, right) that's in thousands, (and here we go) there is your salary (time to go) in tens of thousands, you know, and now it~ that's over hours, the bigger the number of hours that you got, the likely the lower the (got it) beta factors ((sure, sure, sure) are going to date, (so you want low hours) low hours (and high) high perks, high money, (and this is the big one here). This is career acceleration, this means, you know, how fast are you growing in your career, 'cause that's important if you just sit in there like a bonbon log, that's likely to be just one (yeah), ah, mine is er, is hovering at around three, 'cause I'm topped out. (so, yeah) I'm topped out, that's it, I'm not going anywhere, (you are not going anywhere, is it?) OK, no. But it's not
[Harry Smith] But some, but somebody like, like P Diddy.
[Stanley Bing] Oh, that, you know,(inaudible) he's got clothing line, (right) he's got the different names he's changing over,(yeah yeah) he's going up, he could have a 7 or an 8. (yeah) OK. So when you add these all up, just then you sort of cut to the chase. Mine is, my beta factor is 127, (Wo, that's a good number) I've been working hard for a long time. I've been trying to transform my job from a real one into one of these. (Presidential press secretary). We're, we're in the one sixties, I mean I haven't done the math, but although, you know, I would say that at the beginning of that job it could be low, (right) you know, and then after you works it for a while, he can get up into the one eighties, you know.
[Harry Smith] Here we go, but in other, this is bs
[Stanley Bing] Not a thing,this is just~
[Harry Smith] Not one single part of it, great to see you, alright.
[Stanley Bing] alright, as always, thank you.
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