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WCDT Strips 3186 to 3190 (28th March to 1st April 2016)
Kugai:
At this rate it should be late April when the first of Hanners Roasted Coffee Beans are done.
cesium133:
So like 2019 our time?
Tova:
--- Quote from: gopher on 29 Mar 2016, 05:51 ---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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Lack of (or attempting to find) direction and ambition is a long-running theme of QC. So I do actually think this is a reasonable enough concern, but I do have a few quibbles with your examples.
--- Quote from: gopher on 29 Mar 2016, 05:51 ---But most of them aren't particularly happy.
Faye's job is dodgy as hell and her boss sucks.
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Faye's move was the best one I've seen in the history of the comic. She's learning a trade in a craft she loves and in which she possesses obvious talent. Yeah, her boss sucks, but her immediate superior and her work she loves. She won't go down as the very first talented person who had to endure a crappy boss in order to learn to ply her craft.
--- Quote from: gopher on 29 Mar 2016, 05:51 ---Marten does not want to be a librarian.
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He is the one clear example of what you are bringing up. You could fill a book with this forum's previous discussion of Marten's lack of ambition. But I thought he was pretty content, actually. As others have pointed out, not everyone has huge career ambitions. Claire does, of course.
--- Quote from: gopher on 29 Mar 2016, 05:51 ---Penelope wants to work in publishing, but is doing nothing about it.
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Do we know that?
--- Quote from: gopher on 29 Mar 2016, 05:51 ---Will is a bar man, but does nothing about being a published poet.
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Again - I don't think we know that. Actually, working in a bar could be the ideal job for a poet. Plenty of raw material available there. I can certainly imagine him being happy enough working there.
Long story short (too late) - I don't think you've quite adequately supported your assertion that "most of them aren't particularly happy."
hedgie:
Other QC characters also have things that they want to achieve in life, which are quite important, but still matter. Hanners most likely has access to more money than Bill Gates, but she just wants to be able to cope with her anxieties. Speaking as someone who has to deal with the anxiety thing (no billions, sadly), it's a major struggle. Momo wants to be treated as a person, and not an artificial person. Claire not only wants to be a librarian, but also to be treated just as any other young woman.
When it comes to success, Jeph seems to be going with what brings one happiness, not something that is easily quantified. Sven seems to have no problems at all, but is increasingly hating his shallow existence.
War Sparrow:
As my father likes to say "so what if you aren't happy and hate your job? No one is happy, and you're lucky you have a job at all." Paraphrasing, but it's true. No person trying to provide for themselves is pathetic. That includes you, person on government assistance doing their damnedest to find work or improve skills or just getting up everyday, doing what you can!
Define "accomplishments." Not everyone finds fulfillment in a large bank account or kids. Hanners and Faye are working on some mental issues. How far they have come is an achievement, to me. Wil and Penelope have founded a pretty strong relationship and have overcome a number of personal difficulties and personality clashes. And Penelope is an assistant manager, which is a perfectly respectable thing to be. Maybe they will be forty and wonder what happened. Or maybe they will turn forty and think they did pretty alright.
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