10 Crappy Jobs Of The Future (According To The Movies)
5. Reality Show Star (Non-Voluntarily)
Right now, making your millions on a reality show actually looks like a pretty sweet deal. Your personal life will be splattered all across the screen - and then over countless tabloids and trashy gossip magazines - but you also make yourself a lot of money without having to put in a whole lot of effort. So long as being an interesting and/or awful person comes naturally to you, anyway. Less enticing is the idea that you could be drafted into a reality show without actually consenting to it, in which case not only will you be trapped in a job you never applied to, but you're probably going to die, too. Or else kill someone. But, then, you're probably not Arnold Schwarzenegger. So you'll probably just die. From The Running Man to The Hunger Games, the future of reality shows doesn't look so rosy. Either you're chosen via lottery as a tribute to the ruling classes, or you're selected to keep your mouth shut, you political dissident, you - however they do it, you didn't agree to it, and you're almost certainly not qualified to engage in a televised death match against other, equally frightened contestants. What might be even scarier than that, though, is a future where The Truman Show finally happens for real, and you find yourself not even realising that starring in a reality show is your job. Either way, this is almost certainly the path we're headed down with the likes of The Only Way Is Essex, and it's all (y)our fault.
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