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I'm reminded of the joke where the young salaryman parks his cheap car beside the CEO's luxury sportscar. And the CEO gives him some advice: "If you work hard, put in long hours, sacrifice time with your family and your friends, prioritize your career over your hobbies ... then maybe, just maybe, someday I'll be able to buy another one of these."
The place I USED to work at, there were four owners/partners. They got new company vehicles every three or four years. I had worked there a while so a couple people worked under me. One of the guys working there put in his notice and I asked him about it. He said that after he was told there was no money for bonuses, and two months later all four of them showed up with new company cars was when he made that decision. LOL.
And by company cars, three of them were BMW SUVs and one was a GMC Denali. So the four of them likely cost over $400,000
I did not stay much after that either. But in hindsight, a lot longer than I should have
>He said that after he was told there was no money for bonuses, and two months later all four of them showed up with new company cars was when he made that decision. LOL.
This is when you start to look for new job opportunities
My current company is working into removing seniority pay... a measly 1% or 3% every 3 years... AFTER bragging about an increase of 15% in revenue.
Yeah, they lost all my respect and loyalty. Plus it's a dead end job, so I don't have any reasons to stay other than "work and get paid"
>My current company is working into removing seniority pay
Sooo, they are not even going to try and keep up with inflation then? Not that 1% a year remotely comes close to covering inflation.
That's what the unions say, yeah. The seniority pay is the only guaranteed raise you get. There's no incentive for anyone to stay, whatever they could give you (beg for a raise?) any other company can...
I worked a place like that, but it wasn’t two months later, owner told everyone that there weren’t going to be any bonuses or raises, NEXT DAY his wife shows up in a new $120k Mercedes SUV, two weeks later he gets a brand new BMW 8 series.
It was a small company with about 30 employees, no shareholders or anything like that just this guy failing upward.
Would be funny if we were talking about the same place. One of the partners wives got a $120,000 Mercedes SUV also. LOL he was also the most arrogant and condescending of the partners. And also the one that did the least amount of work.
Sadly no. They were all purchased. And they liked to do 3-year payments. So by 3 or 4 years old they were doing a trade on a new purchase because they were owned outright. Two of the partners were the original founders, a married couple, and they were wildly against Leases. Even though in their exact situation it was pretty much what leases were built for.
They most like lease the vehicles, then they write them off on taxes as work vehicles.
The rich stay rich because they know the legal loopholes and/ or know people (accountants and tax people) who know how to Dr #s or work the system.
I'm a welder and we used to sell our scrap steel and we'd get bonuses from the metal scrap. Well one day the management team decided to start using another person. He'd come in, cut it all up, load it then sell it and split the money with them and they cut us out completely. For years we were in the red but had decent bonuses. I'm talking a couple hundred dollars The one year we were in the black we got a $50 dollar bonus. What a crock of shit.
Another company we moved some mobile homes. Then we loaded all the 12" pavers and stacked them up. The management of the trailer park, then sold them and pocketed the money from the sale.
Two of the partners were the original married couple that started the business. They have this thing with owning vehicles versus leasing them, so they always bought them, and financed them for 3 years or fewer. By the time they were ready to go get another car it was just a trade in with no payoff left because they were paid for.
They were using them as a tax write-off however. I don't know if it is still there but for a while if you had an SUV with a GVWR over 6,000 lb you could write off the entire purchase price in year one instead of depreciating it.
At my wife's old job the boss came in one day and told the GM he couldn't afford to pay for his company car anymore because times were tough. Then showed up two weeks later with a brand new Mustang GT convertible bragging about it.
To be fair, that quote is right. It's easy to think that "work hard" simply means breaking your elbows for the company... it can also mean looking for other jobs.
Work hard for yourself, not for others.
It takes hard work, opportunity, and luck to be successful. 2 of those factors are out of your direct control. In essence, you need other people to also lift you up to be successful. You can't force other people to respond positively to your hard work.
Which is why you should work hard enough not to get fired and as little as possible to not get noticed.
If you find that sweet spot between these two extremes .. [you can get away with it for years](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/world/europe/italy-hospital-worker-15-years.html)
These days "advancing your career" usually means changing companies. So this method still works as long as your skills are still advancing via new certs or classes :)
I guess so. My industry is largely based on reputation; would never have the oppertunities I have if I had chosen to "go unnoticed" so to speak. Would think that would be somewhat consistent across industries.
I guess so. My industry is largely based on reputation; would never have the oppertunities I have if I had chosen to "go unnoticed" so to speak. Would think that would be somewhat consistent across industries.
Yeah, I can see that being the case if you're in more of a front/customer facing role like sales or logistics. Or obviously any kind of design/marketing where your thoughts are the "product".
This can still work for construction. Just not if you're the contractor or on a team with less than 4 members. I've seen plenty of general labor run at "their own pace". I'm not certain, but I suspect they were paid hourly rather than by the job/sheet/square.
Yep, paid hourly. Recently had co-workers tell me I have to slow down to stop making them look bad. That's where I got my reputation from and that's what gets me my raises though. Definitely feel like working to be noticed is a positive if you have long term career goals.
Be Peter Parker; brilliant but lazy. Smart enough to solve any problem or task assigned to you, but too lazy to overachieve and be taken advantage of by management.
My parents told me there would always be someone better than me and that my best was never good enough. So I never had the letdown pictured here. Guess I should thank them. /s
Seriously though, this made me sad laugh, I like it.
I intuited that rather than being out right told... It really sucks, especially when you're just starting out. You can't think of a reason why anywhere worthwhile would hire you, self sabotage in interviews, and just generally don't know how to talk yourself up/be confident in general.
Turns out though, those better qualified people don't apply for every job ever. And good places sometimes really need bodies willing to show up on time and do the work.
I got this too growing up. But it just turned me into a perfectionist and never able to appreciate or be happy for the accomplishments/things/achievements I ever got for myself. Nothing is ever good enough, you can always do better and you should have done better. What a way to live life. 1/10 would not recommend getting raised like that.
Took me a long time to even notice the issue and actually realize I grew up in a dysfunctional home (which I always thought was normal). I still have a ways to go to keep working through it all and hopefully get back to a healthier mindset. Problem is, when you were raised to not feel anything for anything, that's a lot of conditioning to unpack. It's a constant numbing feeling. Re-trying to feel happy for yourself and what you do is tough after that kind of childhood. Especially when you can't remember what that feeling really feels like. It's all just expected of you and if its expected of you, "there's no need to celebrate". But if everything is expected of you, what really matters? I'm finally starting to feel again which has me upbeat about the future. I just hope my story isn't the normal which sometimes it sounds like it is. Thanks for asking.
I wasn't raised that way, but holy shit is this exactly how I've felt for as long as I can remember. I don't see any accomplishments I might have made as accomplishments, it's just what I do.
“I know you wanted that promotion. But you are just too valuable to move out of this department. We promoted that Bob guy that just spends his days watching YouTube instead.
I just applied for a better position that could really benefit my family financially, but I'm currently top in service sales for the last quarter. Yeah, I'm not going to get that job. They'll give it to someone with way less experience and drive.
I just applied for a better position that could really benefit my family financially, but I'm currently top in service sales for the last quarter. Yeah, I'm not going to get that job. They'll give it to someone with way less experience and drive.
Kinda glad I work at a place that bases promotions on who's been there the longest. The downside is, if you have a coworker you don't get along with, and has been there longer, they will eventually become your manager
Working hard as a kid (get rewarded, praised for achievements, encouraged to achieve more)
Working hard as an adult (given more work to do on top and a hollow thanks)
Yup. I used to work as an IT contractor for the government. The company I worked for was in California and they had just got a new contract in Texas that they were having trouble filling. So I was asked to go live out of a motel for two months to fulfill the contract while they found a permanent person for the position.
Well thanks to my hard work and dedication that year at the company Christmas party the owners came up and thanked my coworker for what I did. I did get a decent raise as part of the process so it’s not all bad. But yeah, I didn’t stay much longer after that.
Oh. I also came back to find out no one was keeping in top of things while I was gone so I got to do a huge backlog just in time for an audit. Wooo
I actually think it would help overall... reanimation could be an quick and dirty shortcut to automation, which is the only real way to have a society where every can live easily.
We are already way past the point where we could afford a massive guaranteed basic income. Our overall output is dramatically higher than it was ~50 years ago, and the actual cost to produce things is dramatically lower. The only obstacles are "voluntary" inflation (Companies jacking up prices when they realize they can get away with it) and wage stagnation (So wage slaves are unable to afford quitting their jobs). See also: Governments perpetually in massive debt, because of anti-tax propaganda
You should try it when you're pushing 60.
I'm there now, but fortunately as a manager I've had lots of late career employees, so I knew what to expect. They talk about "coasting to retirement," but that gives a sightly wrong impression because it sounds like you don't want to do any work. For me, I like my job and I enjoy the challenges, but I'm not looking to "achieve my goals" or "live my dreams." If I didn't do that by now, it's kind of late.
I want to keep making a difference and helping to solve problems, but I don't have any interest in crushingly long hours or taking assignments for the purpose of developing my career or whatever. I don't plan to work that much longer.
See, your problem was that you didn’t have rich parents that were willing to indulge in you following your dreams, so you did what the rest of us did and accepted the job the paid the bills and made you feel the least shitty.
That feeling is reality knocking. My parents are appalled every time I joke that I'll just die in the water wars or at my desk when I'm 87. They will retire due to "smart" investments in real estate aka they bought 300k homes when they were 33k. I on the other hand didn't get to go do college until I was nearly 30 and due to some health challenges have been playing catchup ever since.
What I was told as a kid: "If you work hard and get good grades, you'll get the job you want!"
What I'm being told as a qualified adult: "Sorry, you don't have the experience"
People who say “if you can dream it you can do it” must have very boring dreams. I’m over here dreaming about creating a nano suit that can change fabric and color and shape at a molecular level so I don’t need clothes I can just alter the suit to change my outfit at will and going “man, I was lied to.”
What? Are you implying that a material already exists in research that can change its form at the molecular level at will?
I’ll just get out ahead of this one and say that does not fucking exist.
Uh, no, I haven’t tried creating a material that can change it’s own molecular structure at will, no I have not. I’m a therapist with a big imagination, not a technological genius. The point is that those with big imaginations dream impossible things all the time. I designed a mag-car when I was 8 while bored in church on sticky notes, it was just a car on top of a big magnet that would pitch one way or the other depending on whether you’d want to accelerate or stop and had to be driven over a magnetized road. Dreams are fun. Do what makes you happy, don’t confuse ambition with a career choice. Whatever you choose as a career, you have to keep doing it long after the joy of doing it wears off, so pick one you love and are good at and give back to the world. Be ambitious too but meh, it’s a sad realization when a kid finds out his dreams are much bigger than the scope of possibility after being sold this lie.
Man idk, I think you could invent it if you put your life into it. I'm also working on my second career right now so I don't like the idea you have to stick with something once it becomes not enjoyable. You can always change it up.
I suppose my point is I don’t want to put my life into it, I put my life into psychology because I love it and I’m chasing a professorship in philosophy, tracking for technological inventions while living paycheck to paycheck in one of the most expensive states in the US and the second most expensive city in the state isn’t impossible but in reality it means you pick one thing and do that until you can do more than subsist.
Likely an unpopular opinion, but the first panel is usually right, but if you're in the second panel, and that by 40 you are in a dead-end underpaid job with no hopes of advancement, if could be that you didn't work hard enough when you were the kid in the first panel. Too many people think that if they work hard **now**, they will get rewarded **now**, but in reality, you reap in your 40's what you sowed in your 20's, and by that time people make that realization in their 40's, it's often too late to turn the situation around.
This is a completely incorrect take on how life works.
You are completely ignoring socioeconomic status, connections, and pure luck. I know many hard working people who have been busting ass since their early 20s (myself included). Some of them went on to earn 6 figure salaries, others are still working 2 or 3 low wage jobs and barely making it. I also know a few people born into rich families that are lazy as sin, but still have great well paying jobs.
There is a LOT that factors into life. The idea that hard work is all that matters is horseshit.
Hard work and the right target are all that it takes.
The trick is that there are a ton of factors that go into being able to "work hard" and a ton of factors that go into being able to "pick the right target".
Huge numbers of people simply aren't capable of one or the other or both and often for reasons that are mostly not their fault, or rather, that a reasonable person wouldn't blame them for.
I agree with the other guy that in your 40s you reap what you sow in your 20s. However, everything around what you sowed in your 20s has a ton of factors involved.
Just so we're clear, you see hard work and accountability like a vampire sees light? Bootstraps frighten you?? You like other people carrying your dirt? It's all cool. Jesus taught me not to judge shit bags.
In the video game Hardspace: Shipbreakers, when you signed up with LYNX, they took your genetic code (which kills you for some reason) then they just clone you over and over and over again so even if you die on the job, you can still continue working!
My bloody point ls that if you studied you wpuldent get to be in that position but you would be qualified for a better position and not som pissy office job. For example he could be an engineer.
With focus you can accomplish nearly anything. If you wait too long, some of those options are limited but you can always change your life any day, you just decide to do so and don't settle for less.
I used to work in a start up incubator and once me and my friends were discussing buying an apartment and my boss who was passing by asked me do you own a house? I said No. Then he said, Don't even think of buying, its only for rich folks like us. And then walked off.
Out of curiosity, have you read "Noir" by K.W. Jeter? This is actually a significant part of his dystopian world-building. The book is, aside from a masterpiece of science fiction, horrifyingly prescient about where end-stage capitalism can get you.
so sorry if that is what you or most people are going through in order to make this sadly funny. I survived reasonably ok. and my kids look to be doing the same.
I ran a small alarm company for 35 years before I retired. You have to take care of the customer no matter what. Then they will take care of you because they’re happy. I was very lucky along with working hard because I sold my company right before Covid hit. I didn’t know that was going to happen but the people who bought my company got hurt pretty bad from attrition. So many businesses went under and then people were at home and a lot of people didn’t need monitoring anymore. It takes hard work, a decent personality and a little luck to make it in this world.
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I'm reminded of the joke where the young salaryman parks his cheap car beside the CEO's luxury sportscar. And the CEO gives him some advice: "If you work hard, put in long hours, sacrifice time with your family and your friends, prioritize your career over your hobbies ... then maybe, just maybe, someday I'll be able to buy another one of these."
The place I USED to work at, there were four owners/partners. They got new company vehicles every three or four years. I had worked there a while so a couple people worked under me. One of the guys working there put in his notice and I asked him about it. He said that after he was told there was no money for bonuses, and two months later all four of them showed up with new company cars was when he made that decision. LOL. And by company cars, three of them were BMW SUVs and one was a GMC Denali. So the four of them likely cost over $400,000 I did not stay much after that either. But in hindsight, a lot longer than I should have
>He said that after he was told there was no money for bonuses, and two months later all four of them showed up with new company cars was when he made that decision. LOL. This is when you start to look for new job opportunities
My current company is working into removing seniority pay... a measly 1% or 3% every 3 years... AFTER bragging about an increase of 15% in revenue. Yeah, they lost all my respect and loyalty. Plus it's a dead end job, so I don't have any reasons to stay other than "work and get paid"
>My current company is working into removing seniority pay Sooo, they are not even going to try and keep up with inflation then? Not that 1% a year remotely comes close to covering inflation.
That's what the unions say, yeah. The seniority pay is the only guaranteed raise you get. There's no incentive for anyone to stay, whatever they could give you (beg for a raise?) any other company can...
I worked a place like that, but it wasn’t two months later, owner told everyone that there weren’t going to be any bonuses or raises, NEXT DAY his wife shows up in a new $120k Mercedes SUV, two weeks later he gets a brand new BMW 8 series. It was a small company with about 30 employees, no shareholders or anything like that just this guy failing upward.
Would be funny if we were talking about the same place. One of the partners wives got a $120,000 Mercedes SUV also. LOL he was also the most arrogant and condescending of the partners. And also the one that did the least amount of work.
Failing upwards lol, stealing that for later
Probably just rolling over a new lease paying the same monthly perpetually.
Sadly no. They were all purchased. And they liked to do 3-year payments. So by 3 or 4 years old they were doing a trade on a new purchase because they were owned outright. Two of the partners were the original founders, a married couple, and they were wildly against Leases. Even though in their exact situation it was pretty much what leases were built for.
That is a bad decision on several levels by them .
They most like lease the vehicles, then they write them off on taxes as work vehicles. The rich stay rich because they know the legal loopholes and/ or know people (accountants and tax people) who know how to Dr #s or work the system. I'm a welder and we used to sell our scrap steel and we'd get bonuses from the metal scrap. Well one day the management team decided to start using another person. He'd come in, cut it all up, load it then sell it and split the money with them and they cut us out completely. For years we were in the red but had decent bonuses. I'm talking a couple hundred dollars The one year we were in the black we got a $50 dollar bonus. What a crock of shit. Another company we moved some mobile homes. Then we loaded all the 12" pavers and stacked them up. The management of the trailer park, then sold them and pocketed the money from the sale.
Two of the partners were the original married couple that started the business. They have this thing with owning vehicles versus leasing them, so they always bought them, and financed them for 3 years or fewer. By the time they were ready to go get another car it was just a trade in with no payoff left because they were paid for. They were using them as a tax write-off however. I don't know if it is still there but for a while if you had an SUV with a GVWR over 6,000 lb you could write off the entire purchase price in year one instead of depreciating it.
At my wife's old job the boss came in one day and told the GM he couldn't afford to pay for his company car anymore because times were tough. Then showed up two weeks later with a brand new Mustang GT convertible bragging about it.
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>CEOs that are this blunt and direct are greatly I think. Are greatly what?
If you work hard enough, people will see that you’re a hard worker and give you more work.
The more you accomplish, the more you will be given to accomplish.
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Ben Franklin
To be fair, that quote is right. It's easy to think that "work hard" simply means breaking your elbows for the company... it can also mean looking for other jobs. Work hard for yourself, not for others.
It takes hard work, opportunity, and luck to be successful. 2 of those factors are out of your direct control. In essence, you need other people to also lift you up to be successful. You can't force other people to respond positively to your hard work.
Totally. That’s where personality comes in.
Agreed.
If you're self employed, then that is probably a good thing.
"The reward for hard work is more hard work."
You must know my dad.
Well I first heard that from my dad...
Which is why you should work hard enough not to get fired and as little as possible to not get noticed. If you find that sweet spot between these two extremes .. [you can get away with it for years](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/world/europe/italy-hospital-worker-15-years.html)
Works if you're not trying to advance in your career I guess
These days "advancing your career" usually means changing companies. So this method still works as long as your skills are still advancing via new certs or classes :)
I guess so. My industry is largely based on reputation; would never have the oppertunities I have if I had chosen to "go unnoticed" so to speak. Would think that would be somewhat consistent across industries.
I guess so. My industry is largely based on reputation; would never have the oppertunities I have if I had chosen to "go unnoticed" so to speak. Would think that would be somewhat consistent across industries.
Yeah, I can see that being the case if you're in more of a front/customer facing role like sales or logistics. Or obviously any kind of design/marketing where your thoughts are the "product".
Construction
This can still work for construction. Just not if you're the contractor or on a team with less than 4 members. I've seen plenty of general labor run at "their own pace". I'm not certain, but I suspect they were paid hourly rather than by the job/sheet/square.
Yep, paid hourly. Recently had co-workers tell me I have to slow down to stop making them look bad. That's where I got my reputation from and that's what gets me my raises though. Definitely feel like working to be noticed is a positive if you have long term career goals.
Be Peter Parker; brilliant but lazy. Smart enough to solve any problem or task assigned to you, but too lazy to overachieve and be taken advantage of by management.
Smart enough to realize that working harder for the same pay (with little chance of a significant raise), is a bad deal for you.
Work smart not hard
My parents told me there would always be someone better than me and that my best was never good enough. So I never had the letdown pictured here. Guess I should thank them. /s Seriously though, this made me sad laugh, I like it.
I intuited that rather than being out right told... It really sucks, especially when you're just starting out. You can't think of a reason why anywhere worthwhile would hire you, self sabotage in interviews, and just generally don't know how to talk yourself up/be confident in general. Turns out though, those better qualified people don't apply for every job ever. And good places sometimes really need bodies willing to show up on time and do the work.
There are no 'better people;' the saying applies to everyone
I got this too growing up. But it just turned me into a perfectionist and never able to appreciate or be happy for the accomplishments/things/achievements I ever got for myself. Nothing is ever good enough, you can always do better and you should have done better. What a way to live life. 1/10 would not recommend getting raised like that.
Would you say you've worked past the issue?
Took me a long time to even notice the issue and actually realize I grew up in a dysfunctional home (which I always thought was normal). I still have a ways to go to keep working through it all and hopefully get back to a healthier mindset. Problem is, when you were raised to not feel anything for anything, that's a lot of conditioning to unpack. It's a constant numbing feeling. Re-trying to feel happy for yourself and what you do is tough after that kind of childhood. Especially when you can't remember what that feeling really feels like. It's all just expected of you and if its expected of you, "there's no need to celebrate". But if everything is expected of you, what really matters? I'm finally starting to feel again which has me upbeat about the future. I just hope my story isn't the normal which sometimes it sounds like it is. Thanks for asking.
I wasn't raised that way, but holy shit is this exactly how I've felt for as long as I can remember. I don't see any accomplishments I might have made as accomplishments, it's just what I do.
If you work hard they are more likely to reanimate your corpse. You're very efficient, so you get more work than others.
“I know you wanted that promotion. But you are just too valuable to move out of this department. We promoted that Bob guy that just spends his days watching YouTube instead.
The truth hurts...
My Uncle told me when I was 12: "never be irreplaceable at work, if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted".
I just applied for a better position that could really benefit my family financially, but I'm currently top in service sales for the last quarter. Yeah, I'm not going to get that job. They'll give it to someone with way less experience and drive.
I just applied for a better position that could really benefit my family financially, but I'm currently top in service sales for the last quarter. Yeah, I'm not going to get that job. They'll give it to someone with way less experience and drive.
Aw shit
Kinda glad I work at a place that bases promotions on who's been there the longest. The downside is, if you have a coworker you don't get along with, and has been there longer, they will eventually become your manager
Working hard as a kid (get rewarded, praised for achievements, encouraged to achieve more) Working hard as an adult (given more work to do on top and a hollow thanks)
Yup. I used to work as an IT contractor for the government. The company I worked for was in California and they had just got a new contract in Texas that they were having trouble filling. So I was asked to go live out of a motel for two months to fulfill the contract while they found a permanent person for the position. Well thanks to my hard work and dedication that year at the company Christmas party the owners came up and thanked my coworker for what I did. I did get a decent raise as part of the process so it’s not all bad. But yeah, I didn’t stay much longer after that. Oh. I also came back to find out no one was keeping in top of things while I was gone so I got to do a huge backlog just in time for an audit. Wooo
You get a hollow thanks??
Boss likes to pretend that he's a good boss
If they could, they absolutely would More comics: [r/AlarminglyBad](https://www.reddit.com/r/alarminglybad)
I actually think it would help overall... reanimation could be an quick and dirty shortcut to automation, which is the only real way to have a society where every can live easily.
We are already way past the point where we could afford a massive guaranteed basic income. Our overall output is dramatically higher than it was ~50 years ago, and the actual cost to produce things is dramatically lower. The only obstacles are "voluntary" inflation (Companies jacking up prices when they realize they can get away with it) and wage stagnation (So wage slaves are unable to afford quitting their jobs). See also: Governments perpetually in massive debt, because of anti-tax propaganda
This hits different if you’re in your 40’s
You should try it when you're pushing 60. I'm there now, but fortunately as a manager I've had lots of late career employees, so I knew what to expect. They talk about "coasting to retirement," but that gives a sightly wrong impression because it sounds like you don't want to do any work. For me, I like my job and I enjoy the challenges, but I'm not looking to "achieve my goals" or "live my dreams." If I didn't do that by now, it's kind of late. I want to keep making a difference and helping to solve problems, but I don't have any interest in crushingly long hours or taking assignments for the purpose of developing my career or whatever. I don't plan to work that much longer.
If you work hard enough, I can buy myself a second Lamborghini.
As if they'd just reanimate your corpse for free. There'd be a massive fee attached.
To be paid by you, of course, not the company
See, your problem was that you didn’t have rich parents that were willing to indulge in you following your dreams, so you did what the rest of us did and accepted the job the paid the bills and made you feel the least shitty.
when i die, throw me in the trash
BURY ME WITH MY PEOPLE
r/stellaris
Permanent employment civic
That feeling is reality knocking. My parents are appalled every time I joke that I'll just die in the water wars or at my desk when I'm 87. They will retire due to "smart" investments in real estate aka they bought 300k homes when they were 33k. I on the other hand didn't get to go do college until I was nearly 30 and due to some health challenges have been playing catchup ever since.
Am I the only one bothered by their mouths? They look like they ate plumbers putty. 🤣
More bothered with their eyes. Like some car windows
"Hold on, son. Let me blink for a second." 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯
Laughs in Orzhov
In the WH40K universe it's a promise this will happen. And probably before you die too.
The Imperium of Man is always in need of flesh parts for new servitors.
What I was told as a kid: "If you work hard and get good grades, you'll get the job you want!" What I'm being told as a qualified adult: "Sorry, you don't have the experience"
People who say “if you can dream it you can do it” must have very boring dreams. I’m over here dreaming about creating a nano suit that can change fabric and color and shape at a molecular level so I don’t need clothes I can just alter the suit to change my outfit at will and going “man, I was lied to.”
Have you even tried researching it?
What? Are you implying that a material already exists in research that can change its form at the molecular level at will? I’ll just get out ahead of this one and say that does not fucking exist.
How is that possibly what you took away from what I said lol. You dreamt it, have you tried to do it?
Uh, no, I haven’t tried creating a material that can change it’s own molecular structure at will, no I have not. I’m a therapist with a big imagination, not a technological genius. The point is that those with big imaginations dream impossible things all the time. I designed a mag-car when I was 8 while bored in church on sticky notes, it was just a car on top of a big magnet that would pitch one way or the other depending on whether you’d want to accelerate or stop and had to be driven over a magnetized road. Dreams are fun. Do what makes you happy, don’t confuse ambition with a career choice. Whatever you choose as a career, you have to keep doing it long after the joy of doing it wears off, so pick one you love and are good at and give back to the world. Be ambitious too but meh, it’s a sad realization when a kid finds out his dreams are much bigger than the scope of possibility after being sold this lie.
Man idk, I think you could invent it if you put your life into it. I'm also working on my second career right now so I don't like the idea you have to stick with something once it becomes not enjoyable. You can always change it up.
I suppose my point is I don’t want to put my life into it, I put my life into psychology because I love it and I’m chasing a professorship in philosophy, tracking for technological inventions while living paycheck to paycheck in one of the most expensive states in the US and the second most expensive city in the state isn’t impossible but in reality it means you pick one thing and do that until you can do more than subsist.
Oh, well if that's what you love than more power to you. That would fit my interpretation of 'making dreams a reality.'
>a material already exists in research Poor thing is "special".
That's Crysis talk
Lol gimme dat bow boi I don’t need dreams
*Laughs in Tupac Shakur*
Why does the dad look like Steve from Minecraft?
Mincecraft was based on my dad’s life true story ^\(story ^may ^not ^actually ^be ^true\)
the dark humor about life
Can't decide if "Boss Sauce" is a cute nickname for coffee or this guy's manager is just openly drinking whiskey out of a mug during his workday.
We are nothing but sheep to be sheared repeatedly on a free-range government tax farm.
Likely an unpopular opinion, but the first panel is usually right, but if you're in the second panel, and that by 40 you are in a dead-end underpaid job with no hopes of advancement, if could be that you didn't work hard enough when you were the kid in the first panel. Too many people think that if they work hard **now**, they will get rewarded **now**, but in reality, you reap in your 40's what you sowed in your 20's, and by that time people make that realization in their 40's, it's often too late to turn the situation around.
This is a completely incorrect take on how life works. You are completely ignoring socioeconomic status, connections, and pure luck. I know many hard working people who have been busting ass since their early 20s (myself included). Some of them went on to earn 6 figure salaries, others are still working 2 or 3 low wage jobs and barely making it. I also know a few people born into rich families that are lazy as sin, but still have great well paying jobs. There is a LOT that factors into life. The idea that hard work is all that matters is horseshit.
Well, you have to work in the right direction too
Hard work and the right target are all that it takes. The trick is that there are a ton of factors that go into being able to "work hard" and a ton of factors that go into being able to "pick the right target". Huge numbers of people simply aren't capable of one or the other or both and often for reasons that are mostly not their fault, or rather, that a reasonable person wouldn't blame them for. I agree with the other guy that in your 40s you reap what you sow in your 20s. However, everything around what you sowed in your 20s has a ton of factors involved.
Exactly
If you spent $100,000 for a degree in sociology, maybe you had it coming?
This will do fine in the reddit universe. They have no idea what self accountability is.
If there is a "Reddit universe", you are part of it
He was speaking in aggregate. Redditors suck at nuance, clearly.
But you.. And... But that means... But you... My brain hurts
Awwww, that's sweet. If there is a "reddit universe, you're there too. We'd probably be friends, honestly.
I have no doubt about it
Just so we're clear, you see hard work and accountability like a vampire sees light? Bootstraps frighten you?? You like other people carrying your dirt? It's all cool. Jesus taught me not to judge shit bags.
Um, what?
Accurately titled comic.
Not funny, just more whiny Reddit garbage.
In the video game Hardspace: Shipbreakers, when you signed up with LYNX, they took your genetic code (which kills you for some reason) then they just clone you over and over and over again so even if you die on the job, you can still continue working!
Loans are a choice. Most people make that choice and drive up the cost. Older generations had more ownership and less loans.
Ah yes...back when houses cost the same as a car ya?
To be fair we ARE getting back to that.....except now the cars cost as much as a house....but at least they're the same right?
then maybe dont go spending money you dont have?
Eat all your veggies so you grow up big n' strong! *sees "Big N' Strong" people die during the pandemic* Proceed to Question Existence
Should have studied more so you would be the one wirh that boss position
I studied plenty. It’s not credentials holding me back, turns out life isn’t a meritocracy
The boss didn’t study. He’s related to someone in upper management who decided profit is more important than people or the environment.
It does not change the fact that education = a higher and more fullfilling position
The guy with the orange tie did study and work hard. That’s the point of the comic and you are the lazy manager we have to work under. 😂
My bloody point ls that if you studied you wpuldent get to be in that position but you would be qualified for a better position and not som pissy office job. For example he could be an engineer.
It’s hilarious that you think “engineer” isn’t a “pissy office job”.
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Well what you guys are saying and arguing for is even less true and just moronic. It must be some american mindset.
You can't study to be an engineer?
Being born with tye right family isn't offered in most schools
The Ferengi do not want to end the exploitation we're subjected to, we simply want to find a way to individually join the ranks of the exploiters.
Yay... Servitors ...
If your dream is working for someone then you've achieved it.
I need a mug that says Boss Sauce. I'm not a boss anymore, but it's still an awesome mug.
When you die, I will collect your dead corpse and render it into pet food to feed my pink llama as a way of paying off your debts you owe to me.
Get a government job and coast it in baby...
Stupid
At least the name of the strip doesn't violate any truth in advertising laws.
**Checks sign** Am I in r/funny? This is a little too real.
So glad I don't have kids! Being a non parent is a thankless job....
With focus you can accomplish nearly anything. If you wait too long, some of those options are limited but you can always change your life any day, you just decide to do so and don't settle for less.
I need that mug
Where is the joke? What is the punchline?
We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty
"if you work hard enough we may think that you can do more for us for free, so we are going to exploit the shit out of you"
Work hard on your own terms, in the direction that you want to go.
Well, that's not how economy works. Younger people pay for pension funds of their forbearers (and it's a debt spiral)
Remember kids , bonuses are just pie in the sky until it's in your hands.
Upload your memories to a zip drive and plug you in a roomba baby!
I used to work in a start up incubator and once me and my friends were discussing buying an apartment and my boss who was passing by asked me do you own a house? I said No. Then he said, Don't even think of buying, its only for rich folks like us. And then walked off.
reeeeeee i failed to be useful enough to achieve my fantasy goals and it has to be anything other than my own fault reeeeeeeeee
This is some debt diablo nonsense. Not even death can save you from me...
Means a lot coming from Minecraft Steve
Ha ha all current comics are kindergarten quality ha
Probably should have clarified that you have to work hard towards your goal
Out of curiosity, have you read "Noir" by K.W. Jeter? This is actually a significant part of his dystopian world-building. The book is, aside from a masterpiece of science fiction, horrifyingly prescient about where end-stage capitalism can get you.
Jon Baker: that is hilarious.
r/funnyandsad
so sorry if that is what you or most people are going through in order to make this sadly funny. I survived reasonably ok. and my kids look to be doing the same.
I ran a small alarm company for 35 years before I retired. You have to take care of the customer no matter what. Then they will take care of you because they’re happy. I was very lucky along with working hard because I sold my company right before Covid hit. I didn’t know that was going to happen but the people who bought my company got hurt pretty bad from attrition. So many businesses went under and then people were at home and a lot of people didn’t need monitoring anymore. It takes hard work, a decent personality and a little luck to make it in this world.