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WCDT Strips 3771 - 3775 (25-29 June 2018)
Carl-E:
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--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 26 Jun 2018, 20:31 ---Oh boy. Of course, soon in QC time might well mean her comprehensive exams will happen in 2019 real time, but... this has the potential for SRS DRAMA if Claire gets a job in, say, New York.
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Ironically enough, I'm an elected library trustee from a small western Massachusetts town. Trust me, there are jobs available. She'll be working in one of the hilltowns, she might have to put together two part-time gigs, and she'll absolutely need a car, but Claire won't have to go out-of-region.
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She may not even need to do that. I just took a look at local librarian job openings, and there are three at Smith, one with the public library in Amherst, and a couple in Springfield.
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Job availability is not the (only) problem. Claire is suffering from the classic realization of a grad student that she will soon have to leave "la tour d'ivoire" and go out into the real world. After all, one doesn't go into grad school in the first place without a love of learning and a deep interest in the topic. Leaving the cocoon of academia can be frightening at best, and we know Claire can make more out of any situation than whatever's really there.
I'm sure she has good coping mechanisms, she's gone through a transition, after all. I just don't know what they are.
Beside puns. And Marten.
Ravenswing:
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--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 27 Jun 2018, 06:47 ---
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 26 Jun 2018, 01:57 ---Clinton’s at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, about 10 miles from downtown Northampton on the other side of the river. There’s pretty frequent bus service between them.
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Trust me, I've taken that bus many times, and trust me, you don't want to. It's about an hour each way, with occasional express runs that are still about half an hour.
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Wow, a whole hour ..... colour me .... unsympathetic.
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Yeah, me too. I took that bus in college days a fair bit (being a student at UMass, with my future wife at Smith). Anyone for whom a half hour ride on clean PVTA bus between Haigis Mall at UMass and the JMG Hall at Smith is a tribulation is even more highly-strung than Hannelore.
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 27 Jun 2018, 03:56 ---She may not even need to do that. I just took a look at local librarian job openings, and there are three at Smith, one with the public library in Amherst, and a couple in Springfield.
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The good jobs locally in western Mass are pretty fiercely competitive, though. The good FT ones with responsibility go to people with 10-15+ years experience in the field. The ones I referenced are the ones freshly minted MLSs just out of school can readily snag.
jwhouk:
Takes me half an hour to get into Phoenix, and half of that is on surface streets.
cybersmurf:
Honestly I don't think Claire has specific plans about getting married to Marten. She probably thought about what happens, and what she would do if anyone ever popped the question.
She probably also did that to not think about graduating and leaving for the working people.
BenRG:
New Comic!
Okay, Claire is having a huge problem with denial here and it is going to bite her in the butt if she isn't careful. I think she's really only now looking at the practical problems associated with getting her dream job and she doesn't know what to do. Like almost everyone in her circumstances, she's dealing with that by not thinking about it at all!
I think that Jeph is giving us a huge foreshadowing by using the doom-laden 'This is fine' meme in the footer text. No, things are not going to be fine and may already be spinning out of Claire's control. We're definitely being told that we're heading into the next phase of Claire's character arc - call it "Doin' Adult" - and how it impacts on her relationships with others.
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