Ah yes, the dream to have less fun and be less fulfilled but make a lot of money. And then do… What exactly was the goal again?
Your reason to live is to pursue happiness and self actualization. My reason to live is to increase quarterly profits and achieve greater market capitalization for a large company. We are not the same.
It’s much easier to pursue happiness, feel fulfilled, and get self actualization when you aren’t poor, alcoholic, and on the bags with an entire friendgroup in the same situation while you browse Lemmy.
Friendly reminder (for everyone) from someone in the field that the vast majority of people who study law do not end up making millions of dollars a year at top firms. If you’re just going into law to make money, there are much less expensive ways to do so.
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They didn’t even send you the T-shirt? That’s supposed to come standard once you hit burnout.
Yeap, and the ones who do make millions usually have to work 24/7 in an extremely high stress environment. Burnout at those firms are pretty extreme, most just do it for a couple years to pay off loans and to pad their CVs.
I do have a buddy who is making a killing working a pretty low stress position for a top firm, but he took a really odd career course. Hes got a PhD in organic chem and then got his JD from Berkeley.
like insurance fraud :)
This reminds me of a story about a fisherman and some twat businessman out on some tropical island. Fisherman dude just fishes a bit and rests on the beach, never making much money and the businessman tells him he could make a lot more money toiling in some other job for decades and the fisherman asks him what the point is and he says “well eventually youll have enough saved up to be able to retire to a tropical island…” and just lists off stuff the fisherman is already doing.
That story is so old that the fisherman can no longer survive because his fish is undervalued, the water overfished, and polluted, the beach illegal to sleep on, and his property unaffordable.
Well yeah the twat businessman realized that was the only way to peel this guy away from his effective retirement and into a cubicle where the rich thinks he belongs.
I have been there. I studied hard, got into best colleges, got decent grades, but when I realized after my Master’s, when I got no job after months of trying, I have been depressed so long that I am still not okay. Even now, I feel like all that education is as pointless. If you can, chase after your dreams, but always be prepared for failure too. But failure should never be the reason to not chase your dreams. Take it from a failure like me.
As an addendum, don’t forget to have fun. Dreams are not end all be all of life. Fun is extremely important. And that fun is in the chase.
I say this without any sarcasm whatsoever: the world needs more life stories like yours. Hope you are having fun.
Right? What’s life worth living for if we don’t seek out the things that bring us joy.
I’ve got two engineering degrees and have found myself miserable in every job I’ve had. Sitting in an office for 8 hours does not bring me joy.
Move out of moms house
Mom hit a glow up between panels 1 and 3.
Amazing what stress does to the body
#Stepmom
Can’t be. She’s not stuck under any furniture.
Well he doesn’t have broken arms so checkmate lib.
Oh yeah? Could be that he DOES have broken arms, but he can’t afford to go to a doctor so he toughs it out on cheap black market painkillers, leading to bones that never heal right and life-long crippling opioid addiction! Checkmate, capitalist!
Sheesh, I took that to a SUPER dark place for what started as a silly porn joke! 😂
Does he still bang his mom?
Probably 🤷
Nice.
Remember kids, if you aren’t born to wealth, NEVER follow your dreams, unless they are marketable, soul crushing dreams that can be exploited to fund the dreams of your economic betters and their largely useless children.
Know your place, ants. You only exist so kids like Wyatt Koch can grow up to do this:
Basically correct. Growing up my only option was medical school, apparently. I got so burnt out I am still fucked from it.
“If I start eating the rich, this guy will be first”
I think that’s buying into the mindset that capitalists want to project onto the lower class. Don’t dream, don’t strive for equality or equity, those are reserved for us.
If we don’t follow our dreams it erases the very possibility of a brighter future. I think even sarcastically appealing to this kind of thought is dangerously reactionary.
I’m the son of a poor immigrant, dropped out of highschool at 16 to work full time. I started going back to school and working nights, continuing to do so until my residency.
It took longer and I had to work much harder, but after a certain point in a lot of fields, its fairly easy to out compete the rich kids. Most haven’t had to work for anything they’ve ever had, and so they don’t really have a true calling or any kind of work ethic.
We really do need /s for sad sods like you. The comment you replied to is dripping with the stuff.
"I think even sarcastically appealing to this kind of thought is dangerously reactionary. ”. And you need to work up on your reading comprehension…
God damn there are a lot of sad sacks here.
It’s amazing how many people have come to see a lack of empathy as a strength.
John Lennon was better off not seeing the world turn into this.
got rid of a bad dream, replaced it with an even worse dream.
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That’s just SLC Punk with caring parents.
Mom’s lookin’ foine in the last panel
She stopped stress-eating when the kid streightened up
Album art I see:
- Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
- The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
- Led Zeppelin (1969)
- Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
- Weezer (the blue album) (1994)
Other music art:
- The Nirvana logo (smiley face) is on the wall.
- The Rolling Stones logo is shown as an album art (IIRC it was never the cover of a studio album).
- Yellow Submarine (1968) is there, but it’s not the album art.
I was so lost until I figured out that isn’t her husband in the last panel. I thought he murdered their son.
Being a lawyer sounds like a bad dream to me.
I have a theory that between panel 1 and 2 the mom somehow slipped into a coma and is dreaming her best life. But I enjoy thinking of Twilight Zones lol. 🥴
Law and finance are the fuel to my nightmares.
KOCK
This common misunderstanding of the purpose of life is addressed by Alan Watts in this short animation illustrated by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame.
This same shit comic keeps floating back up the s-bend. Crappy conservative messaging where accounting is valued higher than art.
A) That’s not “conservative” messaging
B) It’s a joke
I generally like Perry Bible Fellowship comics but this one seems like it’s either pandering to or coping with conservative messaging.
Perry Bible Fellowship is kind of a shitpost? I mean, God makes out with a dude in the current most recent strip -https://pbfcomics.com/
…that was weird
The cosmogony in this comic is pretty close to what I believe, lol
So you study law to become an accountant? I figured you’d study law to become a lawyer, and study accounting to become an accountant.
I think the idea is that it’s a bad dream for him because he won’t make it as a musician
Hilarious. Champagne comedy.
I could interpret the comic as more of a precautionary fiction, since it’s also a pun about dreams.
