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WCDT Strips 3976-3980 (April 8th-12th, 2019)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: DSL on 11 Apr 2019, 11:06 ---It's true we in the USA are supposed to extol the successful striver, but there is an interesting countermovement (or at least a couple TED Talks) of people telling us we need to redefine personal success and learn maybe to at least question whether we need all that money and Stuff(TM). Of course, this advice is coming from people who have already made their pile, or who are making their pile telling us we don't need to make a pile.
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Well, that's a different approach to kicking down the ladder. Usually it's done more forcefully with shifty laws and loopholes.
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 11 Apr 2019, 20:38 ---Building a business is not the same as buying a winning lottery ticket. Yes, there is luck involved in the business, but there's a lot more skill. Being able to identify good employees, find the right sources for your materials, the right location, knowing how to promote your business... those aren't down to some random balls being drawn from a hopper. There's good reason to believe that having done it once, you can do it again. You might be wrong, but it's not like winning the lottery twice.
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Especially since you can sell the current business and use that capital to fund the next one. It is substantially easier to create a second successful business than it is the first one. Success in business tends to compound upon itself. She has every reason to believe she could do it again.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 11 Apr 2019, 20:38 ---Building a business is not the same as buying a winning lottery ticket. Yes, there is luck involved in the business, but there's a lot more skill. Being able to identify good employees, find the right sources for your materials, the right location, knowing how to promote your business... those aren't down to some random balls being drawn from a hopper. There's good reason to believe that having done it once, you can do it again. You might be wrong, but it's not like winning the lottery twice.
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A lot of skill and hard work. In fact, there are plenty of reasons to believe that it can be done again. If you look at successful business people, one thing in common is their ability to start a new business, sometimes in entirely different fields, and succeed. That's what it is to be a successful entrepreneur.
To claim that Dora's success is down to luck is doing her a real disservice.
cybersmurf:
I think Dora mellowing out concerning being mean to customers may be thanks to Tai. I can only guess as much, but Dora willing to move for Tai makes me believe Dora isn't second guessing herself.
Selling the business and starting a new one isn't as trivial as dora makes it appear, and that's why Tai proposed on the spot as she realized Dora is serious about their relationship.
Also, after being put on the spot for not even having thought about moving (not even Claire might have thought about that yet, deferring the thought of having graduated and the implications of it until after it has actually happened, for know reasons), his boss proposed to his ex. Personally, I probably would have left, too,maybe a little less dramatically.
Let's just hope, Claire doesn't decide she doesn't actually want to become a librarian, and becomes a cook or something like that.
You know what would be funny? Tai and Dora getting married the same day as Steve amd Cosette.
brasca:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 10 Apr 2019, 23:20 ---
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--- Quote from: pwhodges on 10 Apr 2019, 03:13 ---He has a degree - it's in Music History and Critical Theory.
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And what kind of job can you get with that? Teach music? He’d need an education degree unless he worked at a private school. There’s no point in aspiring to to career options that don’t exist.
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Music museums exist. For example, the American Jazz Museum is in Kansas City.
Perhaps there's one in North Hampton.
If not, perhaps Marten (if properly motivated) could organize for the creation and funding of one. He's got connections.
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That's all well and good if there is a position open there or some other music museum.
Perhaps Marten has looked for a more fitting job from time to time and found nothing in Northhampton or anywhere close to it and has settled for what he has right now which he's content with. This webcomic has never really addressed it, but I would think the world they live in is possibly going through an economic change with so many AIs capable of doing jobs humans can do. It's not all that different in the real world only we don't have anything nearly that sophisticated. But it's getting there and with fewer jobs available it becomes a matter of concern as to what is available and what careers people should pursue. You can have a young go-getter who puts their nose to the grindstone at a job they hate because they think it will pay off, but after 10 years they are still in the same position they were before or possibly had to start over multiple times because the company changed hands. Ten more years could go by and they realize they're still not getting anywhere in life and struggling to get by, but it's too late to make a change and they never had any fun along the way. Meanwhile the slacker stumbles through life and has an equally bleak future, but at least they had a good time along the way.
Personally I'm the play it safe type, but I'm not about to lecture someone on their life choices when I'm not all that sure if mine were correct.
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