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WCDT Strips 3186 to 3190 (28th March to 1st April 2016)
MrNumbers:
--- Quote from: gopher on 29 Mar 2016, 05:51 ---
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 29 Mar 2016, 04:26 ---, does it matter? Not everyone follows the same measure of what success means. To me success is having a life you enjoy with people you like being with. Not all of buy into the bullshit idea that money equals success.
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But most of them aren't particularly happy.
Faye's job is dodgy as hell and her boss sucks.
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Ascribing your own values to the character. Right now it looks like Faye finds her job super cool, mentally and physically rewarding. Other characters have been noting in the short time since how much happier she looks, she doesn't appear to be drinking, and she seems much healthier too.
--- Quote ---Marten does not want to be a librarian.
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He's found teaching the interns rewarding, and his time with Claire as well. Right now, Marten's happy but directionless. The latter does not invalidate the former.
--- Quote ---Penelope wants to work in publishing, but is doing nothing about it.
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A lit major then. *Self-deprecating rimshot*
--- Quote ---Will is a bar man, but does nothing about being a published poet.
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Not for lack of pursuing his goals, but from needing a stable income in the meantime. Otherwise his girlfriend might be mildly miffed at him. Also he gets to work in an environment that respects his aesthetic, and damn if that isn't happiness right there.
--- Quote ---I don't see earning enough cash to get by while working in an unfulfilling job and not doing anythong about getting a fulfilling job as particularly happinees affirming. Surrounded yourself with similar people mey help you get by, but you still are going to wonder what the hell happened when you are 40, in a dead end job, lice in a shared home with nothing, no accomplishments, no family, no job, to show for it.
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I think fulfillment is where you find it.
Because they're not forty yet, and while that's a possibility, it's not their reality. They don't see themselves being in the same rut in ten years, even if they'll be in it if they keep going about things the way they are.
Until then, they're doing reasonably well for themselves in the company of people they like while keeping their end objectives at the back of their mind as an everpresent possibility.
And that's better than most of us will ever get.
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: gopher on 29 Mar 2016, 05:51 ---
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 29 Mar 2016, 04:26 ---, does it matter? Not everyone follows the same measure of what success means. To me success is having a life you enjoy with people you like being with. Not all of buy into the bullshit idea that money equals success.
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I don't see earning enough cash to get by while working in an unfulfilling job and not doing anythong about getting a fulfilling job as particularly happinees affirming. Surrounded yourself with similar people mey help you get by, but you still are going to wonder what the hell happened when you are 40, in a dead end job, lice in a shared home with nothing, no accomplishments, no family, no job, to show for it.
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Not everyone depends on their job for fulfillment and not everyone wants a family. It really seems like you are projecting your own values and assuming everyone shares them. There are a lot of ways to find fulfillment in life, a job is a pretty weak and, frankly, sad source in my opinion. Fulfillment from strong personal connections and internal contentment are much better sources.
USS Martenclaire:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 29 Mar 2016, 04:26 ---
--- Quote from: gopher on 29 Mar 2016, 04:13 ---While eonjoyin Hanners discomfort something struck me: The complete lack of ambition amongst people in the QC-verse. Outside of Dora, a succesful Businesswoman, the only one who seemed to accomplish anything, Angus, was shipped of to Mandyville. While in my 20s I wasn't surrounded by the most dynamic of people, they mostly had worthwhile goals and were striving towards them. Allowing those still in college a pass, the rest are absolutley pathetic. Fun, adorablem, enetertaining, but pathetic. they will end up in their 40s, still working minimum wage, sharing shitty flats/apartments and not having a clue what happened.
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If they are happy, does it matter? Not everyone follows the same measure of what success means. To me success is having a life you enjoy with people you like being with. Not all of buy into the bullshit idea that money equals success.
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I always thought happiness was success.
MooskiNet:
--- Quote from: USS Martenclaire on 29 Mar 2016, 09:16 ---I always thought happiness was success.
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It's the top shelf, sure, but I'll settle for a few hours where I'm not obsessed with horrible things that will probably never happen or worrying if that person I liked fifteen years ago still thinks I'm an idiot.
cesium133:
To be fair, that person I liked 15 years ago was right that I was an idiot. What matters now is that hopefully I'm no longer an idiot.
(edit by time-travelling Cesium from the future: Still an idiot)
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