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WCDT Strips 3650-3655 (8th to 12th January 2018)
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 09 Jan 2018, 02:15 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jan 2018, 23:24 ---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.
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Eh, I didn't discuss my partner with my sister for well over six months, until one day she asked me "So, have you still got your girlfriend in [region]?" and it turned out the grapevine is more proactive than I am. Sometimes, a new relationship is none of anybody's business. On the other hand, Amanda had made the first step of trying to tell Faye, so you'd think she'd have crossed the mental line of keeping mum.
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Personally, I think the family resemblance remark may be a worse sign.
Neko_Ali:
In my case my self employment is born of necessity rather than desire. I worked for the same company I was working for before starting it... but I was moving cross country and I'm not physically fit enough to do the 8-5 thing in an office anymore. So now I typically work 10-14 hours a day plus some weekend time at home technically as an 'independent contractor' for my job. I don't particularly like it and I never really sought it out but it's what I stumbled into/got stuck with and it's better than being unemployed or literally hobbling into work every day hoping I don't collapse.
themacnut:
--- Quote from: Elder Sign on 08 Jan 2018, 23:08 ---
--- 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.
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No doubt self-employment is more difficult than working for someone else in many ways, hence why people generally prefer, and tend to be better at, working for someone else. But there are a growing number of people, like Neko-Ali above, for whom it's either self-employment or unemployment. The way the economy keeps changing, with increasing automation everywhere and employers of all types and sizes trying to keep their payroll at the absolute minimum, the ranks of these people will only grow. And any one of us could find ourselves joining them at any point in the future; secure employment is so last century.
Faye's sister, poor naive soul that she is, may find this out the hard way herself.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Bad Superman on 09 Jan 2018, 00:07 ---"How long you been bangin’ my sister?"
Really? Is that how you talk to someone you’ve just met? Especially if it’s the new SO of your sibling?
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When you're Faye Whitaker, abso-freakin'-lutely.
The Whitaker clan is a steaming kettle of unresolved dysfunction - her father suicided in front of one of his kids, for cryin' out loud. Wherever two or more of them are gathered, there is chaos, or at the very least very high volume disorder, and it will always be that way.
(I'm having a Scott Adams Dilbert moment with this arc, the distinct feeling that Jeph is writing about people I've had to deal with all too often. I can't help but wonder if he knows these families, even though that's impossible.)
brasca:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 09 Jan 2018, 02:15 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jan 2018, 23:24 ---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.
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Eh, I didn't discuss my partner with my sister for well over six months, until one day she asked me "So, have you still got your girlfriend in [region]?" and it turned out the grapevine is more proactive than I am. Sometimes, a new relationship is none of anybody's business. On the other hand, Amanda had made the first step of trying to tell Faye, so you'd think she'd have crossed the mental line of keeping mum.
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It’s also possible Amanda didn’t want to to talk about her love life just after Faye’s came to an abrupt end and lead to a downward spiral she’s still climbing out of.
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