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WCDT Strips 3650-3655 (8th to 12th January 2018)
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 08 Jan 2018, 18:57 ---Anyone think there's a chance Evie is Renee's sister? After all when she first appeared Renee was Faye's Secret Bakery analog, so it would kind of make sense for her to have a lesbian younger sister.
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Nope.
She's Padma's sister.
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professor_iago:
Um, is "psychology" misspelled in 3652?
Elder Sign:
--- Quote from: A Duck on 07 Jan 2018, 21:12 ---Oh god, this thing about self employment hits WAY too close to home, specially the comment at the bottom of the comic.
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--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 08 Jan 2018, 06:57 ---The truest statement I've heard about self employment is 'You get to choose what 16 hours a day you work!'. Though honestly that depends on what you actually do for a living.
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--- Quote from: JimC on 08 Jan 2018, 08:14 ---The other problem is that you never get any time to yourself away from the boss...
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--- Quote from: Akima on 08 Jan 2018, 16:25 ---And if you're self-employed you're always, always insecure about continuity of work. And your boss is always in the room, looking over your shoulder.
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All of this and more is why I hope to never touch self-employment and the "entrepreneurship" world with a 40-kilometre pole. It's a massive ball of 24/7 overwork, overstress, insecurity, perpetual instability, and general not-having-a-life-anymore that, even with the fleeting moments of accomplishment mixed in, it just isn't worth it.
I know everyone in the business world seems to be pushing the "gig economy" as the one true way to be successful, but from where I stand, no amount of independent cash flow is worth driving yourself crazy and utterly exhausted in the process.
The people who legitimately enjoy and derive satisfaction from living on the edge can go right ahead, but I'll stay over here.
BenRG:
Okay, relationship bad sign here: Amanda didn't think to mention Evie again, even though she has apparently guessed Faye doesn't read her electronic messages. I mean, I can be absent-minded so I don't have grounds to stand and preach. However, I would have expected Amanda to have gushed about her new girlfriend at least once to her big sister during their conversations. Either Amanda is easily distracted or Evie isn't that big a deal for her.
That aside, I am going to make a controversial prediction: Evie is going to be joining the cast in at least a supporting role. The fact that she's studying AI psychology makes her ideal as a foil and driving force for Jeph's current interest in exploring the lore of AI in his universe. I'm guessing that Amanda and Evie will have an argument and break up (possibly in the current arc). Meanwhile, the professors at Smif are so impressed that they offer her tenure as soon as the paperwork is done on her PhD, so she stays in Northampton when Amanda goes back to Savannah.
mercykills:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 08 Jan 2018, 03:58 ---
--- Quote from: mercykills on 07 Jan 2018, 22:09 ---
--- Quote from: A Duck on 07 Jan 2018, 21:12 ---Oh god, this thing about self employment hits WAY too close to home, specially the comment at the bottom of the comic.
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Right!? I hate it when people say, "O, you work from home, can't you do "X, Y, Z" for me?" or "I envy you, you can take off whenever you want."
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"Oh, you work nights? Must be nice to have all that free time in the day!"
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YEP! 'Cause people who work nights are robots who don't need to sleep, at all. :roll:
--- Quote from: Akima on 08 Jan 2018, 16:25 ---
--- Quote from: mercykills on 07 Jan 2018, 22:09 ---Well, shit, sure I can. That is, if I don't want to meet my deadlines, if I want to lose the trust of my clients, and if I never want to eat, again. WHY NOT!?!
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And if you're self-employed you're always, always insecure about continuity of work. And your boss is always in the room, looking over your shoulder.
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Right?!!? And Fate forbid, if you have any anxiety issues or other mental disorders because everything gets dialed up to eleven in your head. Your boss(brain) screams, "you're always neglecting the details and missing the bigger picture!". All you do is wrong.
Ugh. To be left alone with my own thoughts was one of the scariest things to deal with, BEFORE I left school. Now, it's just a waking nightmare that breaks me, more often than not.
--- Quote from: professor_iago on 08 Jan 2018, 21:54 ---Um, is "psychology" misspelled in 3652?
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Yes. Yes, it is.
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