Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 29, 2023

Barbers would go out of business if their work wasn’t undone.

Barista (i.e., coffee boy); you have to spend every day pretending that you deserve to get paid.

A maid suspects that the same thing is happening when she’s not looking.

Charlie Brown’s dad is a reminder: Not all heroes wear capes.

Pig’s got a point.

Or groomer of hairless cats.

Teacher. Students progress to the next grade and ultimately should graduate.

Teachers are held back at the same grade level until they quit.

The barbers work is not being undone but replenished so that he/she can continue to work!! and get paid!!

I always thought a mortician was a dead end job.

Floyd Lawson, patron Saint of barbers.

I bet assassins have a lot of job satisfaction.

Same could be said of a landscaper who cuts grass.

What’s the use in getting sober, when your only gonna get drunk again.

Back in the Middle Ages, barbers were also physicians.

https://youtu.be/edIi6hYpUoQ

Job Security ….

New respect for barbers.

No pig; every moment of every day income opportunity is being created

Stay at home mom.

I’ve read that dentists have the highest suicide rate in the professions. I guess that’s because they are always down in the mouth!! (I’ve been trying to use this for ages, LOL!)

Shouldn’t that be a tonsured existence?

Every moment of every day my remaining follicles create future income for my barber.

Housework would fall under that category.

What is the world’s hardest profession? Most important? Most dangerous? Worst paying?

Farmer.

I never wanted to be a barber anyway, I wanted to be A

Housekeeper?

Pig has a point…. In reality, I think anyone that has to serve the healthy public (restaurants, lodging, retail, etc) has one of the toughest vocations.

Built in repeat business. My budget is tight. I have cut back on many things but I will always get my monthly haircut

I never thought of it that way.

I.T.

I gotta tell my barber this one .

For a halfwit like Pig, that’s actually a pretty insightful answer.

Pig’s gonna go down in history as the first porcine hair stylist.

What about a chef? As soon as he finishes his work, his customers turn it into $hit.

President and school superintendents.

Often times, our experience of life is a matter of perspective.

An unbiased news reporter. Can’t please anyone.

But it is job security

It’s called Job Security.

Is anyone else thinking about Sweeney Todd?

It’s like a postman,the mail just keeps on coming. $%#@

I would say soldier…he sacrifices all for us!

doesn’t it mean job security?

The best job is an elementary math teacher.

You’re helping some (sum) kids make a difference in the world.

The most unkindest cut of all, Pig!

Pigs cutting remark!

And the buff rag for the shaved head ones!

It’s called ‘Job Security’!

school custodian

In our society one thing is certain,the physically hardest jobs, tend to pay the least….which make them harder still.

A barber gets to hear people’s life stories. Not true for pedicurists

Donald Trump’s attorney.

Big-city trash collector. Heavy lifting all the day, no respect from the people they serve, and an amazingly high rate of death on the job from being run over by drivers who are impatient with the truck blocking the street and try to zoom by without noticing the collectors carrying the trash cans…

Maybe Pig is right, and that’s why this barber would rather be…a lumberjack! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xToPCaNxaow

it is a good thing – otherwise, all barbers go out of business

Barbers have job security, until the naked apes are completely naked. Then switch to wig maker with the hair you saved.

Law enforcement IS far from being “the most dangerous job”, unless you figure in the odds of getting diabetes from all the sugared doughnuts they consume (and that would be life threatening, INSTEAD of dangerous), other than that, their main ‘job’ is generating revenue, and harassing, intimidating, and terrorizing law abiding citizens, for their own “entertainment”.

The modern day Sisyphus.

Some just sung their way, like Como, Seville ….

I think that the newer strips should go back to the older way of drawing the characters. Right now their heads look too big compared to their bodys.

Doctors, morticians and casket makers all have one thing in common…….they get to bury their mistakes!!!

Not me. I was raised in one. I lived in, well in an apartment above one, for the first 17.5 years of my life. My dad was the undertaker for a small town in NW Missouri. I would occasionally keep my dad company while he was embalming a non-repeat customer.

Nurse has got to be up there in the hardest profession list.

I would think every moment of every day more potential work is created

There isn’t anybody in the strip who needs a haircut,except Pastis himself.

He always needs a shave.

Oh Pig! LOLOL

Every moment of every day, your job is being secured.

They have actually learned the joy of repeat business.

“Though your chin be smoothly shaven you will need me soon I know / For the Lord protects the barber and he makes the stubble grow.” (Man of La Mancha)

Never thought of it that way.

Pig’s response demonstrates why logic(al) alone does not mean you’re correct….

Teachers. It’s the on,y profession where you have 30 clients at once.

A tortured existence, perhaps, but at least a steady income.

Sanitation engineer, lawn care specialist, hotel maid…

Rhetorician.

The same is true for doctors, teachers, cops, and many other professions.