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   The_JAM said, 2 months ago

   Panel 1: I know the feeling.

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   IncredibleWerekitty said, 2 months ago

   Ditto

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   OpenWings said, 2 months ago

   What’s Michael, 5 or 6? How old was she when Michael was born? Maybe Elly is just too old to remember things from her pre-kid days!

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   ejcapulet said, 2 months ago

   Ah, the joys of “baby brain” - you forget what you like to do, what you were doing 5 minutes ago, and sometimes even your own name.

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   Susan001 said, 2 months ago

   Who is she shouting at in panel 3?

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   farren said, 2 months ago

   The Universe.

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   Avolunteer said, 2 months ago

   been there, done about that….opted out of the T shirt….. but finally did find something mentally challenging and that I really enjoy doing!

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   burgundytoo said, 2 months ago

   I hate it when the clowns who destroy the business, set themselves up nicely before the *%@^ hits the fan while everybody else suffers!

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   Ji2m said, 2 months ago

   Panel 3: Me too…

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    masnadies said, 2 months ago

    Ejcapulet understands…. I have a 4 year old, 2 year old and 8 month old (we are done) and I haven’t “worked” in only 5 years after 8 years with the same company and X years in school, but I am lucky if I can remember my name, much less what I’d like to do when I grow up (I was doing work I mostly enjoyed, in a field I hated- so would have quit anyway- but starting up again will be a challenge!)

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    howtheduck said, 2 months ago

    There were 20 years of these kinds of strips, before John Patterson bought Elly the Lilliput’s book store, and Elly Patterson finally achieved the goal she talks about here.

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    Macushlalondra said, 2 months ago

    Well anything’s better than being Jon’s assistent like she did a couple of times and he hollered at her.

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    Devonshade said, 2 months ago

    I’m surprised Elly made it to middle age, she worries about everything.

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    Hoomi said, 2 months ago

    Hey, I want a challenging career in my field of interest, too!

    Instead, I’ve settled for a boring job in a field that provides steady paychecks. It isn’t just Moms who put dreams on hold to raise kids.

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    bald 716 said, 2 months ago

    i liked the work i did before retirement, but it was the supervision that ruined it for everyone.

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    Comic-Nut said, 2 months ago

    Find something you love to do, and stick wit it.

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    kab2rb said, 2 months ago

    I waited unfortunaely till my two where old enough took WATC to catch up. The sad part 1999 I was still in WATC employers could not get help then 2000 before WTC happened everything went bust. This year is even worse. State of Kansas next year for court houses, and I do not work there, will be mandartory furlough for each month 1 week no pay because of budget cuts. I’m pt with county.
    I can understand Elly’s furstration and yelling out.

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    babsbybend said, 2 months ago

    How could she have “too much education”? She has only one year, maybe two, of college - she’s a high school graduate. How many jobs advertise “only eighth grade graduates need apply”?

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    EarlWash said, 2 months ago

    Hey, I want a challenging occupation in my life long field of dreams too, but that would probably cause me to get arrested.

    Now let’s see, what was that? Oh, shucks, I don’t remember now. Oooooh welllll.

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    MatureCanadian said, 2 months ago

    babysbybend - Hey kiddo, long ago and far away on a planet called earth High School Guidance Councillors told us chicks that “it’s a waste of time and money for you to even try to go to university. You’d only be going to meet your future husbands.”
    I believed the s.o.b. and took courses that wound up being dead ends as far as higher education went. Tried picking up the courses required, all the sciences, maths & languages, but couldn’t stand the night school teachers who were only in it for the $. However, school of hard knocks worked quite well thank you.

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    mroberts88 said, 2 months ago

    MatureCanadian, ouch, thats bad.

    Thats always the problem, getting a job in your field of interest.

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    BlitzMcD said, 2 months ago

    Don’t aim low, Elly. Most who say, “I’ll start at the bottom just to get my foot in the door” usually end up staying at the bottom at that company.

    For that matter, it’s scary how many good folks I run into in Ontario who have multiple degrees, yet are working in what is to them a very unsatisfying situation.

    I think Bachman Turner Overdrive tried to warn us about that in the ’70s when they recorded “Blue Collar”….

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    Burgundy2 said, 2 months ago

    As far as being “overqualified” for a job, I know that sometimes an employer will decline to hire someone whose resume shows way more qualifications than the job required (especially if they are in a different area) because they fear they’ll go to all the trouble to train the individual, just to have him or her leave in 4 months.

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    Ronshua said, 2 months ago

    Weeeell shot ! I though Little Gandy Dancer was the warning .

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    Wolfdreamer250 said, 2 months ago

    Open Wings - If I remember correctly, Elly met John in their 2nd year of college putting them at 20 or 21. They married a year later and Elly dropped out to get a job to help John pay for college. John Graduated at 22 or 23 and Micheal was born a year later at 23 or 24. That would put Elly at about 29 or 30.

    This must be leading up to her going to night school to finish her English degree.

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    OpenWings said, 2 months ago

    Thanks Wolfdreamer250 :-) I haven’t got a long history of reading FBoFW, so it helps to have a bit of background sometimes! Cheers.