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WCDT strips 4146-4150 (2nd to 6th December 2019)
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 05 Dec 2019, 23:19 ---Finally, people have often wondered if Pintsize has a job. I'm wondering if Jeph is just kidding in the footer text or if that is Pintsize's job. If it is, I'd laugh if he was by far the most professionally successful person in the apartment!
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I wouldn't be surprised if Pintsize was an ordained minister.
...Hell no, he's not going to officiate Dora's and Tai's marriage. (would be fun if he did, an noone knew beforehand)
namelips:
Yeeeesh... this hits a little close to home.
I'm 41. I have never really had dreams or ambitions. I've coasted through. I graduated, got an english degree, got a wife, had 3 kids, and eventually settled on a job as a cook.
But I don't feel like I've ever had a plan, or a goal, or any of that. I'm just always more or less content with everything. Things happen, and lots of the time they're cool things that I like, and I just let them happen. And bad things... just don't happen much. Or maybe since I have no goals or ambitions, it's really hard to throw me off course, so I barely notice bad things that would profoundly bother other people.
But recently... I've started wondering if there's more to life than just coasting through, being kinda chill, and not really doing anything. I have a vague sort of feeling of... longing. Like, I wish I wished for things. I want to want things. But I don't know how.
At least Martin could think of "well, I'd kind of like to be an old guy puttering around a workshop." I can't even get that far. People ask me what my dream job would be and I get a... blank. There's nothing I've ever really wanted to do, or felt like working toward. And it's not really limited to "job". People ask what I'd do if I had a million dollars... and I don't know. I guess fix up the house? What do people normally do with a big pile of money?
I know people seem to like the triumphant feeling of setting a goal and working to achieve it, but I have no freaking clue how they have goals. How do you get yourself to feel strongly enough about something to think you'd actually want to do it?
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a broken person, since so much of my internal experience seems to just not match at all with what I see other people experiencing.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: namelips on 05 Dec 2019, 23:54 ---Sometimes I wonder if I'm a broken person, since so much of my internal experience seems to just not match at all with what I see other people experiencing.
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No, you're not. Sometimes takes people a little longer to find their "calling", whatever the reasons may be.
Maybe you'll find a sudden interest in woodworking, or tinkering with old machinery.
Whatever you'll find, I'm sure there's something to spark a passion 😊
You still got a few years lead on me, but I haven't found anything that I would call "my dream job/project", but I'm doing something that's fun for now, so I surely not complaining.
citizenfive:
--- Quote from: namelips on 05 Dec 2019, 23:54 ---I know people seem to like the triumphant feeling of setting a goal and working to achieve it, but I have no freaking clue how they have goals. How do you get yourself to feel strongly enough about something to think you'd actually want to do it?
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a broken person, since so much of my internal experience seems to just not match at all with what I see other people experiencing.
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First of all, you're NOT broken for not having goals. There are plenty of people just like you who don't have grand goals. When you're seeing other people experiencing so many things, you need to remember that the people like you aren't going to be the ones you're hearing about. Feeling inferior or broken in some way is just the availability heuristic at work.
For me personally, I don't necessarily have grand goals (or those that I do are so far in the future that I can't do much to directly affect them at the moment), but rather short term personal projects. Doing DIY work gives me the same sort of satisfaction on a smaller scale for completing a goal. I'm terrible at being self-motivated, so I just treat my projects as things done for fun.
I hope this helps; I've heard the same sort of sentiment you have from many of my friends who look at what I do at express amazement at it.
BenRG:
Speaking personally, I've always smiled bitterly at missing my 'calling', which is technical drawing. The big problems is that I didn't know what to call it and ended up going down completely the wrong track at high school to get into the field. Basically, I was called into the (somewhat odd) head of social education's office, asked "What job do you want when you're an adult?" and assigned elective classes based on that 13-year-old's stammered and uncertain listing of likes and dislikes.
In their defence, as a working class boy with an acknowledged issue with time-keeping and organisation and from one of the poorest boroughs in London, I was expected to spend the rest of my life on benefits or carrying boxes at a warehouse, so only minimum effort on their part was required.
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