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.
I can confirm this, all I got was severe burn out and depression!
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.
TBF compare that to being a rockstar these days is basically becoming an indentured servant to Ticketmaster or beholden to the pity and grace of an independent record label.
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.
Same. I worked my butt off to make a five digit income only to realize that I was profoundly unhappy and none of the shit I could afford to buy would ever fix it.
Turns out Fight Club was in fact a documentary.
It is, but some people miss the point of the ending. Basically, according to the movie, finding friends and having relationships is what matters the most. Compared to taking out your frustrations by fighting each other. That is just another disaster waiting to happen. Even the writer of the novel said that he liked the movie ending better.
Yep, I wasted the first 30 years of my life doing what I was “supposed to do” on a career trajectory. I have basically nothing to show for it, except a lot of bad memories and emptiness. As I approach 40, I’m finally learning how to have fun, push my boundaries, make friends, embrace my creative side, take risks, all of which I should have done long ago.
If you want to live the American Dream, you’ve got to be asleep.
George Carlin
Just as a positive note… the American Dream isn’t about getting a house and being rich… it’s about the possibility of someone who is poor to be able(even allowed) to rise up to some measure of success in a way that just was not possible or very unlikely in other countries.
Probably, that’s what it meant a hundred years ago … but over the past many decades in popular culture, the American Dream has meant that everyone has a chance of becoming filthy rich and a multi millionaire
Move out of moms house
Screw over the poor! That is the fun part. Source: am being screwed over
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.
And people who don’t get sarcasm!
This is profoundly sad omg
There, I fixed it.
I appreciate that he’s smiling for once in this version.
tyvm 🫡
got rid of a bad dream, replaced it with an even worse dream.
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the best way to help those people was to study law and finance and change the system from within!
lol, the system is designed to make any such attempt irrelevant.
I don’t know, plenty of people achieve progressive change all the time. Lots of examples of politicians and lawmakers from all over the world for this.
Edit: here’s an example from Lemmy front page, https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/12/28/mass-fair-share-millionaires-tax-anniversary-revenue
Yeah, I love those bedtime stories, too.
That’s just SLC Punk with caring parents.
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.
Mom’s lookin’ foine in the last panel
She stopped stress-eating when the kid streightened up
The kid dreamed of his mom being hotter and it was not considered a bad dream. Now he studies law to find in which state the rest of the story can happen legally.
Being a lawyer sounds like a bad dream to me.
Earn a lot of money and then work all the time so you can earn money
Defend what matters to you and be poor, or defend where money is and be rich and meaningless.
I was so lost until I figured out that isn’t her husband in the last panel. I thought he murdered their son.
For anybody who still doesn’t get it:
She put the dreamcatcher over her son’s bed and then his dreams of becoming a famous rockstar died. The guitar is in the trash and he is studying law.
I would have figured this comic out so much faster if I had noticed the guitar in the trash.
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 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.
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/shocked/ clearly pandering to incels
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/puppy-wish/ clearly pandering to conservative fundamentalist christians
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/youll-be-ok/ clearly pandering to hypochondriacs
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/preserves/ incels again (and this one isn’t even remotely funny, the greatest crime)
I’m starting to think this artist is a cryptofascist. Basically equivalent to rock throw
Who does this one pander to?
Asking for a friend
It is a message that there is no smoke without fire. The “intellectual” (note the glasses) has a seemingly convincing argument, but is shown to be a fool. The suspicion of sinful, non-procreational sex (notice the falling leaves, which do not play a reproductive role in trees) turns out to be true.
This belief in smoke without fire feeds into the conservative tenets of anti-intellectualism, the tendency to assume guilt based on prejudice and fuels paranoid conspiracy theories. It is also a meta-dog whistle confirming that yes, those other dog whistles the comic uses are really what you think and not just coincidental.
Remember: on the internet, nobody can hear your tone of voice. If you want your dry jokes to land, you’ll likely need to use “/s” to show that you were being sarcastic, otherwise people might think you’re being serious about such an obviously absurd, irrational stance, because there really are people who would believe the things you joked about.
Is this one pandering to Christians?
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/lamb-of-god/
Thank you for the links though. I’ve spent hours going through these comics. I didn’t even know I could like comics this much.
you may have heard the phrase “god works in mysterious ways”. This is clearly one case of such. Clouds do not normally behave like this, it’s closer to what you might think of smoke. And where do we see white smoke? That’s right. When the Papal conclave has come to a decision for the new Pope.
Pandering to Catholics. QED
:p
You’re too much. :)
for the love of–
they are sheep. how much more heavy handed is it possible to make a metaphor
You don’t seem very fun.
These are hilarious lmao. You’re insane if you think the punchline of “the stick figure falls and his body spells ‘OK’ after the other guy says ‘you’ll be ok’” is pandering to hypochondriacs, btw.
Can you and apparently 2/3 of the other readers of that comment (going by current votes) not detect obvious sarcasm?
Not as obvious as you though, apparently. Considering 2/3rds…
I guess it’s the point of sarcasm really, that not everyone will get it right away. I hate when people feel the need to do the “/s” though, it completely defeats the point.
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
Never seen a joke before, eh?
Idk. Not everyone has talent or the ability to gain the skill of the thing they wanna do.
Creativity is still king. But sometimes you need a day job, first
What a great joke.
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.
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.
