Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 26, 2024

That should be “Where do you see your descendants in five million years?” (low probability we will have any that far in the future)

Well, my plans are just evolving.

On the boiling-hot verge of extinction.

Staying away from sharks.

Scaling the heights of success.

The catch of the day at a seafood restaurant.

With your job.

5 million years? If I’m not back in the water soon,

… I’ll be dead in less than 5 minutes.

I plan to be sleeping with the fishes.

When asked where I expected to be in 5 years, I never knew what to say.

Still waiting for the commercials to be over, so I can resume watching a YouTube video.

“A fossil displayed on a museum wall.”

“Good. Good, you’re planning for the… What’s a museum?”

Retired.

Wishing I were back here.

A fish extincts from the head.

dirt

Hanging on a fisherman’s wall

5 million years is not very long in evolution. Humans and Chimps are separated by 50 million years.

I might have fewer scales, but not much else

The worst offenders are the primates who became human.

I LOVE it!! Great one, Wiley!!

Still wallowing in a disgusting puddle, apparently.

As inspiration for Billy Bass, the wall mounted singing fish.

The company I was working for closed down my division and I ended up looking for a job (it was telecom and the whole industry just dropped off). Was interviewing with the group Finance Director (where I ended up) and he asked me where I saw myself in 5 years. I laughed and replied "no idea, I quit thinking about it. If you had asked me 5 years ago, my answer wouldn’t have been “unemployed and talking to you”". He sort of looked at me and I added that there are too many variables outside of my control and all I could do was plan a path, execute the plan but keep an open mind and evolve with new information or the situation changed.

If that time zone is anywhere close to now, I’d think a dead fish would equal the truly awful smell in modern politics.

This is the dumbest question that gets asked on interviews. It’s like asking a football coach, “What play will you call five downs from now?”

My short answer is “Where will you need me in 5 years? If I haven’t solved the problem for which you are hiring me to solve today, then you should fire me before the 5 years is up.”

I see him guilty on all 34 felony counts, running for President of the United States and ready to give Ukraine to Putin.

Emperor of the United States

I was only asked that once and got it right. I said here. I knew I was going nowhere and had arrived.

Devolving.

“Where do you see yourself in five years?”

“I think listening is my greatest weakness.”

On a hook.

Red Lobster

in IT…

Same as always: in the mirror.

Am I the only one wondering where the desk and chair came from since there are only ferns (for wood) and no animals with leather hides at this point in prehistory…?

Sitting across from my doctor being told to eat more fish.

“We talked about it. We’re all going to evolve to live on land and then trash the entire place. That way, we’ll need to go back to living in the sea.”

Petroleum?

So, Interviews haven’t evolved…. Shocker !

Preserved in a sheet of shale.

Realizing that if I’m still here in 5 million years then it wasn’t by chance

Please note that Wiley is taking a break, and this cartoon is a repeat from 2020.

Turn around and go back! It’s a trap!

“Do I qualify for the mammal fast track?”

Still a fish: sturgeon, paddlefish, sharks, coelacanths…

Is this an exit or entry interview?

Participating in a Presidential debate on cable.

These are all (well, mostly) very clever comments—good answers!

Don’t even go there…

Probably where I am now, but with more responsibility and still no authority; rapidly going mad, in other words.