Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 28, 2023

How much did Sam contribute to his 401K while he was working?

lets hope he lands on his feet…

Sam is the kind of guy who would prefer to start a startup company.

Did his job pay a million dollars a year?

When he runs out of food, it won’t be a good moment.

Some years ago, I passed up a job offer that would have paid well over twice what I’d been making, but it would have had me working at least 60 hours, or more, every week. I wanted a life more than the money. Besides, it was in Cincinnati…

It is good to enjoy life now, but too few people plan for the future.

As with all things in life, balance is important.

Trade four years for a few days? Doesn’t sound right.

Lucky rich entitled brat. He no has loans to pays off or recession or inflation to worries about.

The deadbeat must still be sponging off his dad.

Who paid for his meal?

Yep, parents give their kids everything. Let’s just have fun and smell the flowers!

I hate communists

I had a wonderful career, even better because I turned down a management position!

Enjoy life while being unable to pay bills, food, and mortgage.

Love it, but this guy does not represent a generation, just those in his generation whose parents can support him forever.

In other words, he just wants to be lazy and brag about it by passing it off as living life to the fullest.

There is a local radio commentator still paying off his college loans and he is 55!!

I thought there was a lame pun coming

It looks like the only one drinking " tea " is the goat : )

Hardly anybody WANTS to live for their work. Those who do are either fortunate or delusional.

I was an advertising proofreader, and had the possibility of being a copywriter. I decided not to pursue it, because “advertising” was those guys’ whole identity, and they were sometimes working until 10pm, with a high level of burnout.

I got a different clerical job with a decent salary, and very regular predictable hours. Wound up being the office computer guy. Kept the job for 25 years, retiring early.

The ad agency I worked at was subject to hostile takeover about a year after I left, and everyone was fired.

So what does he do for money?

A lot of assumptions today.

My consolation is that I won’t be around when this kind of idiot realizes my generation used up the last of the SSI.

Which way does retiring at 52 count?

He’ll be back when he figures how much his new lifestyle costs.

Work ethics are in the potty with some of this generation! I blame the parents for not guiding their kids and teaching them responsibility, respect, manners and compassion!

If he wants to enjoy life he should avoid those a-holes completely.

I knew a few people that lived like this back in the ‘80s. One in particular wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail. So he’d work for 6 mos to a year and then take a few months off to go hike another segment. Life in technology back then. You could get away with that.

Good luck enjoying life without making money to support it.

And 401k’s can disappear just like THAT! (Snap fingers here)

Think: Roadhouse Blues > The End

Future’s uncertain and the End is always near!

‘Funemployment’ seems to me pretty much the same thing as Travis McGee’s ‘taking retirement in installments’.

Good grief, kid!

Life is a marathon, not a sprint is what I understand. And yet even I can’t say I don’t think Goat’s statement is worth noting since it does give one something to think about. And yet you wonder what the future of society would be with that young man’s attitude. That will be enough on that for now.

Good luck building wealth and staying current in your field, slacker. You reap what you sow.

Louder Pig. Louder.

The thing with existentialism is regard for the long term..

Good for you Sam.

You hit the nail on the head with that one Mr. Pastis!

Future freeloader

No problem. The government will take care of you.

We have lots of people like him in Illinois. The ruling party just taxes everyone else to pay for their slothfulness. Unfortunately, they now outnumber the workers and keep voting the same people back in.

And Sam went on to invent a new and improved dot – dash code to modulate microwaves.

Not a new idea… see ‘Holiday’ 1938 with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. I always thought it made a lot of sense.

Parents paid for college. Parents will supplement income while he is freeloading. That’s reality for 99% of those who choose that lifestyle.

As I told my granddaughter, having a place to live and food to eat is good too.

Good luck living in your parents basement while (not) paying back your student loans, Sam….

It makes zero sense to love your job when your job clearly doesn’t love you.

Ugh. This guy hasn’t made a funny joke in over a year. It’s either bad puns I could whip up in a few minutes, or crap like this taken from the headlines. I read comics for a chuckle, not to be reminded one more time of the idiocy going on around me! Oh well, I’ve found a funny off the wall comic called “Pooch Cafe” I’m going to try and add, time to just remove this unfunny thing off my page. I know, I know, I’ll get replies saying "Goodbye then!’ and so on….don’t bother, I won’t be reading them! But maybe some day this writer will overcome his obvious bitterness and try just being, you know, funny again?? I’ll check every now and then to see.

Well, he may be expecting a big inheritance from his hard-working parents.

Wait till his Mom’s will is read and he finds out she left everything to charity.

There was an article in a trade journal recently who said millennials want to work “differently” than others. So that’s what they call slacking off and being lazy nowadays?

I would have given Pig’s line to Rat, and had Pig with his joyous expression, saying “My kinda guy!”

The irony is Sam doesn’t enjoy his life, however, he loves the heck out of playing the martyred victim and demanding tax dollars from working people to support him.

The ignorant delusion is strong in here today.

He said, “I made a little money, so I just want to enjoy myself for a while.” In the meantime, how are the bills getting paid? And if he keeps quitting jobs for no good reason, he’s going to find it very hard to keep getting good jobs. That point will probably be long before he’s ready to retire, and because he didn’t work steadily enough to put a decent amount of money away, the thing he experiences might be homelessness.

The dignity and honor of working for someone else until you drop dead has lost it’s luster.

Ok, but beware that having a gap in your resume limits your ability to get another job…

In my career I make very little money

Bedlam and disarray in the PBS gang, and all due to some counter-cultural smart-mouthed Neo-Hippie….

Another future welfare recipient.

“Enjoy myself” = “move in with my parents rent-free”