Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 04, 2021

Mixture of Optimistically Outlook and a Reality that …..

Luann… The Sign Twirler! lol

There’s a whole world of careers out there Luann. Not many at $15/hour, though.

“Medical Study Subject” holds promise. ✨

I think andy cohen just mentioned luaan on the late nite with steven colbert show

Night shift at a kennel doesn’t sound that bad, actually…

That is why educators are needed, Luann. You know, the kind of people Tara accused you of being. They are there to keep you from having to have a career as a sign twirler. That’s reality.

If the medical study gives her a spine against people like Tara, she should take that.

Bernice is trying to work her magic, but she’s bringing a lot of salagadoola to the party and Luann needs some bibbidi-bobbidi-boo.

Hey, I know! Lu could probably get some great advice from Dez’s “destiny deck.” (On the other hand, she might not make any sense of it in time for it to be useful).

Night shift at the kennel sounds fun, the pay sounds good, hours are ok…but i bet the clients are a b*tch. (rimshot)

Bernice…so helpful!

Add a few more hours, and she might have more options

This is starting to remind me of the old Do-Wop classic: Get a Job by The Silhouettes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzWkqfQ17Eo

Feel like this might be a set-up to seeing more Jack. Like, he has a dog and wants to be a vet, he’d probably love to work at a kennel. At least I hope so because Jack’s a cool dude and I feel like we haven’t gotten to see him in awhile.

Uh huh.

All of a sudden, working at the Fuse doesn’t seem so bad, right Luann?

How about Nude Artists Model at 50 bucks a session?

I’m sure Zebo could hook you up. ;-)

Given her experience with herding children, her best bet is late night kennel worker.

Plus, she possibly have a run in with Jack.

Night Shift at a kennel sounds like a great job.

She could sell plasma once a week (twice a week if her veins could take it). When I worked at a plasmaphoresis center here in the college town, most of our donors were college students. Which was great, since I did the initial interviews and physical exams—they were all so healthy and normal and easy to work with. First time I ever saw tonsils, too. When I worked in the hospitals, none of my patients were college age, and none of them had tonsils.

Night kennel, her choices are really going to the dogs! Though maybe she can meet someone there…

Don’t forget stripper.

Don’t forget 911 operator…

Street corner what twirler?

Now, as I mentioned above, depending on the sign one “twirls”, they can make good money. A traffic flagger at road construction sites for example:

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“The salaries of Traffic Control Flaggers in the US range from $66,780 to $172,590 , with a median salary of $122,950 . The middle 60% of Traffic Control Flaggers makes $122,950, with the top 80% making $172,590.”

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Not too shabby. College education requirement: Just a B.S. (Bachelor of Signs)

Go with the cut in hours and concentrate on being a college student. You know the job and you could work your way back into the good graces of a new principle. Downgrade your expenses for awhile because you still have the security of living at home. Take your time, impulsive decisions could take you to a really bad place.

What newspaper is Bernice reading from the Pitts Pyciyunne from 1976? Because around here every store has “Now Hiring” signs. Luann could walk through the door and get anything from burger flipper to saleswoman. The idea that the only things that are available are Sign Twirler or Drug test victim is nonsense. Greg and Karen need to get out more. Maybe even talk to read kids Luann’s age.

Find an apprenticeship program.

Luann may need to realize that her new part-time job does not have to be a foot in the door to her future career. Perhaps just securing a nice stable job with 10-15 hours a week that is compatible with your class schedule and remaining hours at the kiddie care job is all that is needed right now. If you find that jolt of inspiration and find a “calling”; awesome but do not expect it to hit you like a bolt of lightning as minimum wage jobs (if Luann is in SoCal) are not always a doorway to the future but merely a means to survive as you find your real future.

So there is nothing wrong with simple working retail or hospitality to pay for the car insurance, textbooks and coin for the weekend. Anyhow, if Luann and the DeGroots were so strapped for cash then Luann could apply for and receive college work study (anywhere from 5 to 20 hours a week of employment on campus), loans (be careful Luann, they may take longer to pay off than you realize) or perhaps a Pell Grant. However this would not likely be a full benefit if the Degroots clear a set amount of income, it just depends on if the Fuse is in the red or not. Luann would still have to be a full dependent of Frank and Nancy which I am going to guess is a given.

This has to be the easiest time in history to find a job. Of course I guess if there was no pandemic in Luann world there’s also no labor shortage.

Ahh, Reality, a necessary pain in the @$$ since the beginning of time.

I kinda hope that Bernice will apply to become a Medical study subject. It would help her to understand what it means to be on the other side, with others who judge and study you. I love how optimistic Luann is♡. I hope she will really find something great for her. That night shift at the kennel might be fine too. She may find out that Jack already works there. That would be really awesome♡!

She should try the employment office at the college, they usually have part time jobs with limited hours for college students.

If Luann takes the medical study subject gig and gets super powers, I think we might have a story.

Don’t we all……

As someone has already mentioned we have here a mixture of an optimistic outlook and reality. There’s got to be an acceptable compromise in there somewhere. But then again, as the great philosopher, Father Guido Sarducci once said, and I quote: “Vitum Est Laborum”, that is, “Life Is Work”. So, there ya have it.

“Medical Study Subject”…. If it’s a psych study, both of them would be perfect fits..

Nice seeing Luann and Bernice getting along.

Verily, reality doth suckith!

Luann work toward starting you own daycare. Maybe you could Mom and Dad into selling the fuse and help you get started

The kennel sounds cool. Maybe Jack’s there.

Kennel ! Get to play with puppies and kitties !

Narrator: She’s going to spend the four weeks trying and getting fired at them all.

Focus and goal. Not dreaming right now. It’s nice to think the next job you go for could open a new career path (showing us that Luann’s still not settled on a job) but the reality is you need an entry level job that limits the number of hours you work so you can continue with your studies; hello Weenie World! A fair share of the cast has done time there and who knows, maybe we’ll see that Ann Eiffle has a job there too.

Some of those clinical studies pay good money. I’ve been in a couple dozen of them. I’ve known people who do nothing but that. In Luann’s case, covid notwithstanding, sitting in a study room for a specified period would be a good opportunity to study. (Yes, I know not all of them call for sitting in a room; cool your jets. But some do. See above.)

Well LuAnn does like pets, and would totally baffle the lab people on how someone can be so @n@l.

Thanks for ruining Luann’s hopes and dreams, Bernice.

Why doesn’t she just drive down the street? There are dozens of “Now Hiring” signs out there in every town right now.

Take a couple of those jobs.

It will all work out hilariously. All I got today fellow Luannites.

Find a rich guy and get married!

Reality bites! Or so they used to say.

Stay in school!

Crash dummy.

Anatomy dissection cadaver.

Biological warfare effectiveness test subject.

Lots of GREAT openings!!

looks like Puddles noticed the word “kennel”

I volunteer “Steffi The CHeerleader” for Medical Study Subject.

After 7 weeks,the best scientists will be totally baffled.

Medical Study Subject sounds like a good carreer for Luan!!!

I vote for the kennel job.<Maybe Puddles sticking his head into the selfie will be what gets her the job.

Of course,some breeds are bigger than Luann.You don’twalk Puddles,you carry him in your handbag.

My sister LOVED working third shift at a kennel when she was a teenager! . . . except when the dogs peed on themselves.

“I hate reality”? Such is life. Best to be as proactive as possible and fine the best ways to deal with that reality.

I love dogs but I never liked going to the kennel. It was noisy and I hated seeing the homeless dogs in cages. Depressing.

MY first paid gig after I retired was as a participant in a Federal study! $120 bucks for a day’s “work!”

NOTE: The below post was written by @jroggs at The Comics Curmudgeon; if I’m going to steal a comment I’ll at least credit the author. Multi-part comment; see the rest in replies:

Lots of interesting points yesterday about Luann. One of the most striking things to me from this storyline is that Luann isn’t just a terrible character, she’s a terrible character by the standards of the strip. Evans can do better.

Tiffany is the example I would point to. She’s not consistently well-written, but it’s through her that I’ve seen some glimmers of competent characterization that’s mostly congruous with the story’s intent. Take the recent plot with where she butted heads with Bets. Tiffany created a for-profit dining experience that wasn’t what Bets wanted. Tiffany believed she was in the right (I don’t agree with her rationale, but she did at least have a rationale). At first Tiffany stuck to her guns even after it caused a rift between her and Bets. But when she learned that Gunther and Bets had broken up right after the dinner and Bets was no longer even speaking to Gunther, she reconsidered how she wanted to approach the matter.

Tiffany is a self-centered person and often makes things about herself. So her immediate concern was that it was her dinner concept and attempts to push Gunther to choose sides that caused the break-up. This bothered her for two major reasons. One, the dining experience was something Tiffany took very seriously and she was mortified (somewhat superficially, perhaps) that her first venture as a businesswoman had such a catastrophic result. Two, Gunther is a close friend of Tiffany’s and she really didn’t want to make his life worse.

Tiffany took all this in and made a decision. It was no longer important to her whether she was in the right initially; she wanted to do what it took to fix the problem, both to assuage her self-centered guilt and because she believed it was the right thing to do.

Gosh, what day is it? Seems like a week of Sunday strips! Get out of the bedroom and start pounding the pavement, or driving around. In our area there are many “Help Wanted” signs with jobs starting at more than $15/hr.When do these two have classes? :-o

Sign Twirling Pays $15??

Night Shift at a kennel sounds like it might work for a student. I college I worked as a night watchman. All the warehouse cared about was that the rounds clock got punched once per hour (20minutes to make a round) I had the other 40 minutes to do homework.

I’m with Luanne on this….

I made VERY good money being a folk singer in a resort in the 1960s. Played guitar and sang solo. Got a salary plus tips.

Register at temporary employment agencies. Let them do the work of finding a job for you.

I never had difficulty finding ways to make money when I was a kid. I started out selling home made pot holders, door to door, in the 1950s. My grandmother bought me the supplies, and I made literally hundreds of them on my loom. I sold them 2 for a quarter all over town. People gobbled them up.

I ran my own neighborhood newspaper when I was 11 years old. I put all the gossip I could find in it. I never had problems selling them.

I made comic books in the 6th grade and sold them to my classmates for 10¢ apiece. The teacher let me draw them in class as long as they were about the subject matter he was teaching. I still have one somewhere of my characters taking a trip to China, which we were studying at the time.

“It doesn’t pay much,but at least the hours are lousy”

Jerry Lewis—THE ERRAND BOY—1962

How about a pole dancer in a gentlemen’s club?Not with Jack – Bernice has first dibs.So Luann hates reality – wait until she drops a Shannon or two.or maybe, “Looooann…..you don’t have to put on the red light” (sung by Kermit the frog).

Luann needs to figure out if she likes child care enough to do it again. If so, take some child development courses at college. Work in an after-school child care. Lots should be around. With a few courses under your belt and all the experience you had, you could be supervisor.

We all do! It could be worse, Liberty Tax could hire you to parade their jester looking costume!

Are we being punished for wanting to see LuAnn in her own comic again?

“finding” or actively searching for? Luann expects things to fall into her lap e.g. she will just ‘find it’ somewhere?? And yes Luann is in fantasy land; she doesn’t like “reality” especially this present reality.

Starbucks is always hiring.

I’d have totally loved any of those jobs compared to my own wage gig. They all sound like relatively low stress and little supervision.

How about a pole dancer in a gentlemen’s club?

Watch out for that Medical Study Subject ad.

It was placed a medical student whose ambition is to major in Doctor Feelgood.

You yourself have said it, Luann (panel 3)!

Sad, isn’t it?

Puddles woke up when Bernice mentioned “kennel”.

Luann should start charging Brad and Toni whenever she has to take care of Shannon.

Christmas is coming maybe she can get a stint as Mrs. Claus