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Mr. Meddler

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Darqcyde

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Dogen

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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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I think that feeling comes and goes. It's thrilling to apply to your first job, and maybe your second job (especially if you hate your first job), but eventually it's just stressful. I need this job, otherwise I'm screwed. Student loan payments, car payments, rent... fuck, I just need a job! ... and then the mirth comes if you finally get a job that pays a living wage and the stress lifts.
So maybe I'm unemployed for the first time since I was 15 and it stresses me out a little bit to think about how much grad school is costing me. _________________ "Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman |
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Random Wanderer
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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Oh if only applying for the job actually meant you would get the job. I would suffer from SO much less anxiety... and be much less poor... |
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Night Spade

Joined: 12 Jan 2010 Posts: 1382 Location: Australia
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and then he finds out what is in those burritos and swears off them for the rest of his life.  _________________ “I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator”
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Ennis

Joined: 08 Jun 2013 Posts: 992 Location: Australia
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Actual title: 2014-04-02: Hiring 2
Panel two is exactly how I act when I think about all of the cool steampunk stuff I would buy once I start earning money. |
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Yinello

Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 3463
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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My thoughts at applying for my first job: Yes, now I won't have to constantly be dependent on dad's money!
Nowadays: Damnit, I wish dad would still give me an allowance above this. |
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ShadowCell
Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 7395 Location: California
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:13 am Post subject: |
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if he's all full of mirth now, wait 'til his first paycheck |
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SA_Penguin

Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 306 Location: Adelaide
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 1:48 am Post subject: |
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I recall Squig selling a part of his porn collection, to pay for burritos.
Yet the collection, seen recently, still seems big.
Rather than purge his collection again, he's getting a job?
Think again, Squig!
This is the perfect time to copy digitise those old VHS tapes to computer, then sell the tapes on eBay as "Collector's Items"
When collecting your booty, wear an iPatch [the new Apple gadget] and say "Arrr" a lot. _________________
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diagram12345
Joined: 07 Jul 2012 Posts: 171
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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It feels weird to have a main character apply for a job - when all the main characters (except the devil girls) don't have a job, I can willingly suspend my disbelief about how they support themselves, etc.
But if one character has a job/ is applying for jobs, that brings attention to the fact that nobody seems to be supporting themselves. |
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Rune

Joined: 08 Oct 2011 Posts: 1815
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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Creative work is still work. I don't know about Slick, but Monique is at the very least a locally famous performer at this point. Squig has been busking for a little while now.
Sam is vaguely in charge of Being America, Barackstar is a rock star, Author-insert Tat draws comics.
It's true that none of those are clock-in-clock-out 9-5 or shift work, like we see most of the devil people are dependent on (and there's probably a discussion on privilege in there somewhere, and how different sorts of work and working conditions tend to be more readily available to different classes of people,) but I don't get the assertion that the main characters have all been jobless until now.
Until recently with the devil girls worrying about being demoted and fired, and this bit with Squig, the need for a job and joblessness really haven't been played on very heavily, that much is true, and early on when everything was more hammy and fourth-wall-breaking, the question was much more up in the air. I don't think that bringing jobs up now begs too many unreasonably difficult questions, though.
And I really, really don't get where the claim that the non-devil main characters are all jobless comes from unless you're -only- counting Slick's lack of popularity as a performer, Squig's general bummy-ness, and Crim's apparent perpetual studies. |
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Dogen

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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know if Lil'E counts, but we've seen him work before.
There's another strip where him behind the counter is the punch line, but I CBA to spend that kind of time digging through the archive. _________________ "Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman |
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Heretical Rants

Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 5344 Location: No.
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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Lil'E only got that job so he could buy more weaponry from deviltech, iirc
he didn't need it to eat _________________ butts |
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Dogen

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I'm not sure Squig does, either... I mean, he's survived the entire length of the strip so far. _________________ "Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman |
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diagram12345
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Rune wrote: | Creative work is still work. I don't know about Slick, but Monique is at the very least a locally famous performer at this point. Squig has been busking for a little while now.
Sam is vaguely in charge of Being America, Barackstar is a rock star, Author-insert Tat draws comics.
It's true that none of those are clock-in-clock-out 9-5 or shift work, like we see most of the devil people are dependent on (and there's probably a discussion on privilege in there somewhere, and how different sorts of work and working conditions tend to be more readily available to different classes of people,) but I don't get the assertion that the main characters have all been jobless until now.
Until recently with the devil girls worrying about being demoted and fired, and this bit with Squig, the need for a job and joblessness really haven't been played on very heavily, that much is true, and early on when everything was more hammy and fourth-wall-breaking, the question was much more up in the air. I don't think that bringing jobs up now begs too many unreasonably difficult questions, though.
And I really, really don't get where the claim that the non-devil main characters are all jobless comes from unless you're -only- counting Slick's lack of popularity as a performer, Squig's general bummy-ness, and Crim's apparent perpetual studies. |
But we never see them getting paid, and at least in the case of Monique and Slick, it's heavily implied that they don't get paid at all for their creative work. 'Nique goes to open mic nights where she gets boo'd (and as far as I know, people don't get paid a living wage to participate in open mic nights), and like you said, Slick is constantly portrayed as not being financially successful in his creative endeavors. |
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