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.
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.
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.
If you want to live the American Dream, you've got to be asleep.
George Carlin
Mom hit a glow up between panels 1 and 3.
Amazing what stress does to the body
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"
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.
Album art I see:
Other music 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 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
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