10 Crappy Jobs Of The Future (According To The Movies)

6. Dystopian Bureaucrat

Some of the future jobs that we see in sci-fi films are total flights of fancy, with as much basis in reality as...well, anything else that happens in them. The real depressing ones are the ones that are basically the exact same as jobs we have now, only they've somehow gotten worse. The flying taxi looks dangerous as heck, working in a factory is a million times worse when it's in a dystopia, and you can go ahead and through cushy office jobs into that list. The 1984-inspired dark future of Terry Gilliam's Brazil posits a society entirely beholden and tangled up in the sort of red tape and bureaucracy that drives contemporary office workers totally barmy. You go a little nuts trapped in a cubical right now - just look at Office Space if you need proof - but it's gonna get even worse in the future. Either the tendrils of bureaucracy will reach out and consume the rest of the world, as in Brazil, or else the labyrinthine rules and regulations you're expected to know as a civil servant (or even just a double-glazing salesman) will only get more confusing, to the point that answering a call is almost impossible. And you just know that advances in technology won't help much either; it's hard enough to pull a sicky or neglect your work as it is, what with the pioneering concepts of "working from home" or being constantly reachable via your mobile phone. Just imagine when Google Glass becomes the norm...