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WCDT strips 4146-4150 (2nd to 6th December 2019)
MrCorvin:
This comic really hit me in the PTSD, mostly because my ex pulled the same stunt on me. This is not how you do it.
Thrudd:
Better Degree aka a longer, more expensive, higher education degree that will put you into debt longer and not actually produce a lucrative career compared to a trade where you are not only not in debt but have those multi letter graduates work for you.
Ugh - rant off
Anyhow, a dream job is just that, a dream.
The actual job never actually turns out the way you think it would be, that is if you could ever got the chance in the first place.
(click to show/hide)A story about Me.
Just skip because it isnt all that interesting except for the morbidly curious.
I would have loved to go into high energy physics.
I gave up on that, little thanks to the politics and butt smooching involved.
I fail at both so I absolutely suck at sales. I may have also intimidated some of my professors at the time - not a good thing
I fell into teaching night school when I went back to school to get a trade and discovered I loved teaching at the post secondary level.
Unfortunately unions and the amount of available work hours made that not viable in the long run.
My trade tanked due to a major implosion in that part of the industry at the time.
As a note of warning based on my career at the moment - contract service sucks
Wingy:
Well, if Marten wants to be a luthier, there's Becker & Cumpiano Instruments in Noho and 5 other shops within 10 klicks.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: Technetium on 03 Dec 2019, 06:02 ---Yeah, I saw this coming a long time ago. They have never really been a good match as far as ambition and life plans are concerned. There are actually two conflicts that are coming up here. The first, which everyone has caught on to, is that Claire is ambitious about what she wants to do for a career, and she doesn't understand that Marten isn't. The second conflict is that Claire believes higher education is essential to pursuing career goals, because it was for her. I think, in Marten's case, even if he were to pursue becoming a repairman of musical instruments, he would balk at going to school for it.
I had a similar conflict with an ex years ago, and I think it was a part of why we broke up. She had a master's degree. I had only a 2-year degree. She used to tell me that I "have to" go back to college, it was not acceptable for me not to have a better degree.
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I never did, anf probably never will understand the "unless you're an academic, you ain't worth shit" attitude ("slightly" exaggerated from your argument).
The way I see it, Marten may - kind of - appreciate Claire trying to push him forward, on general terms. The details of how that's going to happen is something different entirely. Maybe he'll learn to rein her ambitions in, as far as he's concerned.
--- Quote from: MrCorvin on 03 Dec 2019, 08:22 ---This comic really hit me in the PTSD, mostly because my ex pulled the same stunt on me. This is not how you do it.
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Crappy move on their part then. Hope it's not too bad for you.
MrCorvin:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 03 Dec 2019, 12:45 ---
--- Quote from: MrCorvin on 03 Dec 2019, 08:22 ---This comic really hit me in the PTSD, mostly because my ex pulled the same stunt on me. This is not how you do it.
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Crappy move on their part then. Hope it's not too bad for you.
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Just like the other person you quoted, similar circumstances. She had a Masters degree and felt that I could "do more" with an advanced degree (I have no degree). I felt if I could work, pay bills, put a small bit away in savings, I really didn't need it. It was a red flag that I ignored because she was smart and hot and claimed to love me for who I was. It's the doom trio when the last part isn't true.
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