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WCDT Strips 3816-3820 (27-31 August 2018)
jwhouk:
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--- Quote from: jwhouk on 27 Aug 2018, 05:15 ---I'm reading Paul McCartney - A Life, and at the point where I'm at, being at the top of your game can really suck rocks.
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If that was after he recorded “Simply having a wonderful Christmas time” then it was karma.
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Two words: Heather Mills.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: themacnut on 30 Aug 2018, 08:37 ---I'm going to be surprised if this arc leads to Marten doing anything new to change his work/career path. Marten has always been pretty much been the anti-ambitious, non-career-focussed, no-ladder climbing dude who tends to go where the winds blow since the beginning of the comic. The opposite of Claire, pretty much. He may occasionally realize that drifting where the work/career winds blow means he's at the mercy of those winds, but I think it's going to take him actually being booted out of his present job (again!) for him to really do something about it. Or perhaps some extra nagging from Claire - if Marten drags his feet after that, there's some potential for conflict between them.
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Ah, but this is no typical Marten script! Where Claire is concerned, we see atypical Marten behavior. She inspired him to seize the initiative to start the relationship in the first place - something he had never done before - and she may well still have that influence on him. For all Claire's faults, she absolutely brings out the best in Marty, and he in her. They really are good for each other.
Penquin47:
I'd just assumed that while Tai had graduated, she'd started a graduate career of some sort and Marten meant "if she ever finishes her graduate work". Some people can drag that out forever (I have a cousin who was over 30 by the time she finished school - of course, that was with multiple doctorates and post-doc work.)
Eternal_Newbie:
I've recently learned that a lot, if not most Library Sciences degrees in the US require a student to do a long period of unpaid internship. And that many will not count paid work towards this. It's possible that Claire was in a situation where she knew of the job that Marten got, but it would have been counterproductive to apply for and get it, as it wouldn't have counted toward her degree and she would still have had to do that internship.
snufflebottoms:
--- Quote from: themacnut on 30 Aug 2018, 08:37 ---I'm going to be surprised if this arc leads to Marten doing anything new to change his work/career path. Marten has always been pretty much been the anti-ambitious, non-career-focussed, no-ladder climbing dude who tends to go where the winds blow since the beginning of the comic. The opposite of Claire, pretty much. He may occasionally realize that drifting where the work/career winds blow means he's at the mercy of those winds, but I think it's going to take him actually being booted out of his present job (again!) for him to really do something about it. Or perhaps some extra nagging from Claire - if Marten drags his feet after that, there's some potential for conflict between them.
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I think that'd be shitty. I mean I get not liking your partner lacking ambition but this is the man she chose to date. If he likes his job and doesn't want to quit for something else, that's valid too. He pays rent, he's a good boyfriend and friend. He does purse his music with the band even if it's not for acclaim. Marten leads a good life and while having goals is important, I don't think this is a giant flaw.
Encouraging him is great but nagging wouldn't be.
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