Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 19, 2023

Work goals = Keep the soccer ball from going in.

Amazing how Pig knows all these terms but has no ideas what they actually mean.

I agree with pig, since I retired in 1995.

Work goal: Continue to slip under the radar.

Now that I’m a comfortably useless old retired guy, I’ve fully achieved my life’s goal. My goal now is to make it to the fridge for another beer, then to make it to the john in time…

Pig is well on his way to a career in National Politics!

Work spelled backwards is KROW.

My biggest work goal is to get to the point where I no longer need to keep a resume.

I work hard to avoid hard work.

The term for someone with that work goal is “deadbeat”.

Work Goal: something for football (soccer) players.

I think Pig needs to change that to “Life Goals”.

Time to ask Larry Croc what his goal is ;-)

Gotta admit Pig, work IS a 4-letter word!

If his only work goal was to not have any, he failed – since he listed it as a work goal, he has one. Maybe he could change it to to not have any more work goals.

Pig’s goal should be not to be turned into something edible

Typical, these days.

I don’t think the characters even have jobs.

Mine was to retire as soon as I could. Worked out okay.

I am going to use that on my review haha

Works for me.

He could have added “Live off the Government”. Seems to be a lot of that these days. Along with, of course, “Live Off Mommy and Daddy” and for some “Live Off My Trust Fund”. You know who you are…

I was realistic realizing I had to work, but tried to do as little as possible. No overtime for me and retired “early” at 62

Not get fired but a couple of times I didn’t live up to it.

My work goal is to survive the next two years, ten months and sixteen days and hope that by then I have reached my retirement fund goal as well.

Realism in desires. Actuality, not so much.

As much as I like that idea, that’s not how life works.

No worries, just like tax payers, those of us who work(ed) hard will make up the difference.

Girl: “Why don’t you get a job?”

Benny Hill: “Wha’for?”

Girl: “So you can make some money.”

Benny Hill: “Wha’for?”

Girl: “So you can retire some day.”

Benny Hill: “Wha’for?”

Girl: “So you don’t have to work anymore.”

Benny Hill: “I’m not workin’ now.”

I worked for a major corporation and every year we had to write our goals before our yearly evaluation. All I really wanted to write was “…to work where I am until I retire”.

Same here, Pig, since retirement in Y2K when AT&T wanted to transfer me from the frozen tundra to San Antonio for nationwide responsibilities.

Work avoidance is a goal. And sometimes hard to achieve.

In his own way, Pig is quite practical. Goat, as usual, has set too lofty standards for most folks….