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WCDT: 2440-2444 (6-10 May, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
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--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 08 May 2013, 18:50 ---@Throg what's wrong with being a librarian? A lot of people really like that career.
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He's not a librarian though, he's just a library employee. I don't think even Tai's a librarian. He probably gets a bit above minimum wage for stocking shelves and showing people around (that's what it's like for public library pages, at least).
Latias:
Regarding Marten not being content, is that still the case? I know it was something that was expressed a lot in earlier strips, but has it been a sentiment he's expressed recently? I can't seem to recall him saying anything of the sort in a long time, but my memory isn't the greatest.
--- Quote from: Throg on 08 May 2013, 18:31 ---But yeah, Marten is still directionless. It is NOT ENOUGH to be the nice, empowering-to-your-friends, generally good guy that doesn't lift a finger about moving on himself. What is cool at his age (late 20's?) is going to be, existentially, fucking ridiculous in his mid-40's. Wearing ironic t-shirts and the guy behind the desk at the college library? really?
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Marten's life is more than t-shirts and being a library clerk. It's also quite a jump to assume he'll be doing that in his 40s, but if he is, who are you to judge him? If he's happy with his life, what gives you the right to say that's ridiculous and that he should spend his life someway else? Just because that might not be your type of lifestyle does not make it ridiculous. It really doesn't. You don't decide what is "enough" for someone.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan:
Ok, so this is going way overboard, but I looked at the real Smith College library staff page, and there are definitely positions Marten could apply for with a 4 year degree in Music and circ desk experience (and a secret Naked Trustee bonus to all job application rolls).
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/staff/az
So he COULD try for a future at the library and maybe even make it work, he'd just have to do the bare minimum, which is fill out an application and BCC the trustees.
That's basically how I got my decent IT career started (minus blackmail), I worked as a student in a work study job, learned stuff working and applied for a staff position, and so on. I'm not passionate about it but I do love the place and the people I work with, so it's fine.
westrim:
Being a librarian requires a masters degree, (the lowest paid masters degree profession). Tai and Marten are just employees, not librarians, who are spoken of as slightly mythical creatures and rarely if ever appear in the strip (I believe those were board members that Marten caught boning).
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Daniel Patrick Moynihan on 08 May 2013, 19:31 ---(minus blackmail)
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--- Quote from: Bender Bending Rodriguez ---Blackmail is such an ugly word! I prefer "extortion"...the "x" makes it sound cool.
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