Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 26, 2019

Yay Dez! That’s what I’ve been saying. Preach it, Sister!

Desmond sure is always thinking on the bright side.

At this point, Dez needs to step up and look Tiffany in the eye and tell her the most successful people fail more often because they are willing to take risks. To fail means you tried!

Will we see the same guys from the football team that moved all her furniture in now move it all out?

J.C. Penny failed several times before he found success! Dez’s advice is good.

PS: Maybe daddy will finance her nail business?

Never been a Dez fan but she’s making beaucoup sense right now.

I love Dez! She always steers people towards being their real selves.

Way to go Dez! FINALLY the voice of REASON! Tiffany should listen to Dez and stay in school and get a Business Degree! THEN, after she graduates, she can Cosmetology, Fashion design, whatever.

Plus, Guess what? Tiffany will finally have something to talk to her father, (a successful businessman) about! He can’t help but be proud of that daughter is following in his footsteps!

And if she needs more business inspiration, she can always contact Simone of Souffle or even Businessman Al Gray. Even former manager Evil Ann could serve as an example of what NOT to do.

And if Tiffany has problems with math, there’s always Gunther.

I’m not one to see silver linings in dark clouds, but damned if I don’t suddenly see one here.

One more thing. Bernice should IMMEDIATELY give up the idea of being a “Counselor” and become a Librarian, where she can’t do any more damage.

Dez, SHOULD be a Counselor!

Business degree or counseling. I am not sure which one is worth less, I mean, more.

Re Business Degree – I don’t think Tiff could endure accounting.

When is Nurse Ratched going to run into her limits?

Kinda funny hearing Bernice called “the warden”!

Well it looks like the going home and business crowds are getting their wish. This might be an interesting homecoming!

I’m cringing, somewhat, over a potential daily Tom and Ann and Tiffany at home setup. I hope she doesn’t go over to the Dark Side and take business advice from her step mom.

Oh well. It is but to wait and see.

Right Bernice. Tiffany tells you she’s feeling frustrated with failing with career goals because A) Nobody really believed in her. And/or B) Someone threw roadblock in her way. So you immediately say counseling. But counseling would only deal with the frustration. It wouldn’t fix the problem. Besides, who would she go to for counseling? You? You’re the one who just ’B’ed her. Luckily, Dez needs only to hear 10 seconds of dialogue to find the practical solution.

I agree with Dez!!!

Bernice, you might reconsider your career path. You are not doing too well in counseling so far. Dez, on the other hand, is born for that career. Tiffany, you can stay at Moony and get a business degree so you could OWN a business rather than work for some corporation. If you go to comestology school, you’ll only learn trade skills and work for someone else. With a degree in business, you can be self-employed and financially independent. Try to reach the hidden pocket inside your brain to get that bulb lit.

Called it

NO MORE TIME FOR TALKING DO SOMETHING MAKE A PLAN AND DESTROY ANN FOR GOD SAKES!!!!

Just curious. Tiff…where are you sleeping tonight?

So Tiff’s light bulb goes on after hearing Dez say, “Go get a business degree”? This is too simple. I think we need some bank shots to get Tiff in a better place.

Dez did what she could, Borenice did not do much, And Tiff will have to do who knows what.They all have something to do. And all we can do is watch. Whoa, theres too much do – do here. Hmm…..

Borenice was just called “the warden.” LoL! Don’t want to be her right now.

Dez, tell Bernie to quit being a little tin plated bureaucrat and maybe try to help Tiff with this. Yeah it’s against Bernie’s precious rules but maybe she could figure out a way Tiffany could still do this on campus. She knows things haven’t been rosy for Tiff but instead of being helpful, she suggests something that Tiff has already said she did. The look on Bernice’s face on panel #1 says it all. Seig Heil!

Going home, Tiff? Right into the dragon’s lair?

YASSSSS!!!!

Or Tiffany can skip the business degree and go to cosmetology school.

As usual and as always, Dez, without a psychology degree, out-counsels the “counselor” who is now suggesting Tiffany go get counseling. Everyone has written this before, it’s Bernice who needs the major change (warden, perhaps?). She is absolutely no gd good at counseling.

Bernice does more harm than good. She is, IMO, the “swaggering, overbearing dictator with delusions of godhood.” (Star Trek Reference, THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES)Her “counseling” is driving Tiff into potential extreme action, self-harm.Bernice is so cock-sure of herself, it’s not funny. She’s a student. NOT G_d!

Administration comes by. Tiff, please don’t shut down, the students love it. BUT you will need to work in an approved place and I have found you a place on campus in our student center and the cost will only be …..

I believe that “Fanicure” will be a big success without LuAnn getting a business degree! All she needs to learn is what a spread sheet is and how to control the bottom line!

As an MBA, I must say that the cost of the degree is NOT worth it…unless you’re going for specific disciplines like Accounting, Business Information Systems or Operations Management. But, Tiffany’s skills and contacts are guiding her towards business. A Bachelor’s degree in business could add to her current skill set for a solid foundation to start making her own money.

Bernice should learn the difference between floundering and FOUNDERING. Perhaps a good librarian could help her.

yes, then put Ann out of business.

And this is why Dez is awesome!

Seeing some of these CEOs in real life, I can attest to the fact that you don’t have to be smart to get an MBA….

At last! Dez will be the voice of reasoning. But will Tiffany listen? And yet a business degree isn’t the entire answer? She also needs cosmetology certification. Actually she could probably take and pass the skills test right now. I’m sure there are some things she needs to learn such as the chemistry of hair products and skincare products but she could easily learn all that. She needs both skill sets to have the business she wants. But this is a start!

bernice is the one who needs counseling, as in stop trying to run peoples lives and worry about your own.

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So, first I have to admit I have woken up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, and I feel a bit grouchy, and have had no coffee nor pipe. So, I admit that my perspective may be a bit skewed, but:

1. I have found Tiffany’s responses “aka I QUIT” to be rather off putting and annoying.

2. To bail part way through a semester of college that is already paid for and to dump on your living arrangements that are already paid for to….. go home and live with Dad (and Ann)…. yeah, that makes a helluva lot of logical sense in terms of making your life situation better.

3. I realize that Tiffany is upset about the “nail salon” shutdown… but she is very literally making her own life HARDER by her response to the shutdown.

4. Thank goodness Dez actually has come into this story as a voice of reason. If Tiffany really would like to do this “Mani/Pedi” stuff as a carreer and not just as an employee, Dez is absolutely right that she should be a business major (as I and many others had suggestsed). There has been NO indication that Ann nor TomCat were changing her finances in regard to college, so Tiffany should be smart and take advantage of what that can offer her.

5. Everyone is dumping on Bernice at the moment. But, you need to put this in perspective…. yeah, Bernice wants to become a trained counselor…. and she has been giving legitimate advice through all this (it is not what Tiffany wants to hear, but it is accurate)…. but the BIGGER issues is that Bernice IS CURRENTLY an RA, and it is her responsibility and her job (paying her dorm fees, presumably) to uphold the University’s rules. Running a business as busy as Tiffany’s was appearing…. would not be something any RA would be able to “let slide”. So, I think Bernice has been doing a pretty decent role at bridging her RA duties, her friendship, and even her efforts to be a counselor.

Out of left field…but a amazingly good idea by Dez. That would compliment Tiffany very well.

Dez should be MD, I agree on everything you said, but Bernice could learn to be a counselor, but the difference is that Dez is a naturally gifted people person, while Bernice needs to get over her value judgments, and inability to think outside the box (sorry for the trite saying, but it fits).

When I was in High School back in the Dark Age, one of the girls dropped out as a Junior and went to hair-dressing school. We all tried to tell her it was a bad mistake. She retired at 55, sold all 9 salons, and spent the next ten years traveling while we REALLY SMART people counted down to Social Security.

Maybe Gunthur and Tiff can start a business together. His gift of creating clothes and her ability to do make-overs. They would be a hit for cosplayers.

This reminds me so many students I encounter in my late life community college career. At the age that Tiffany and her fellow Luannverse characters have feelings of low self-esteem, caused by internal factors, and external ones—like those she has mentioned, from failing with her Dad, to failing at anything she has tried—are one of the biggest issues that they face. In my urban environment campus everything from parents in the penitentiary, to fear of pregnancy from very autocratic, conservative parents and family situations, to economic factors, to simply dealing with life and all it’s challenges come crashing down on these new young adults. And that is just a tiny bit of the situations that they contend with. Lets not talk about drugs, or coercive social media. One of the best things our system has done, and it has been very successful, are Wellness Centers. There whole purpose is to help students do what is necessary to learn to deal better with these challenges so that they can get to their goals, and not let them stop them in their tracks. Colleges, from Harvard, to Happy Valley Community College have similar counseling, advising, Wellness centers. In Luannverse its Dez though, and that is fine too. Lots of times fellow students can be very, very therapeutic. I hope that is an outcome of this arc that Tiffany can embrace. Tiffany being a Mistress of the Universe? Seems possible.

Yup, business is Tiff’s real calling, I think.

The market is flooded with MBA’s. So unless you are starting your own, and have a good business plan, good luck!

See a friend trys to find solutions rather than trying to shut you down because you violate their artificial rules.

Tiffany should go to cosmetology school. I’m sure if she tells daddy she wants to open up a salon one day he’ll be more than happy to foot the bill.

As a result…a minor character who’s given only a marginal role comes up with the common sense solution, the obvious solution! Must be Luann!

The signs on the wrong side of the door.

So thought I had. Everyone seems to think Ann is just trying to make sure Tiff’s dad doesn’t spend his money on Tiff so that there is more for her. I wonder though if Ann is actually more motivated by revenge, trying to punish Tiff for ruining her lingerie business?

I realize this is beside the point – and bravo to Dez for being the encouraging voice of reason – but I highly doubt that she would have been so crazy about the school sports team that she’d want a “fanicure”. I wonder whether she just came in to get one in order to lend support to Tiffany?

Go Dez!

Good advice from an unexpected source.

Maybe good.

We all need a friend like Dez.

I love how literally nobody cares about Bernice’s opinion, not even her own friends.

Unless your wish is to be a corporate drone skip the business degree and go for what you want to do. Learn that and then you can pick up the few classes that are relevant to your business needs. Most of the classes that you have to take are fluff meant to make money for the collage. And Tiff, go read. Read books on business written by people who are business people to learn about business. Read the great books to learn a wide range of cultures and thought. Read biographies to learn what other people went through. Heck read a cheap novel. I have yet to pick up a book that did not teach me something. Even if it was only what not to do.

Yay Dez! But Tiffany is motivated to succed now. She needs to start the business, get a little success and then realize she needs more skills to have a bigger and better business. She’ll be back in school, but on her terms. Not everyone goes straight to college after high school. Some take awhile to find themselves and the motivation.

And you may not even have to drop out – check the catalog at Mooney, change your major…

Wait… Tiffany wants to go… HOME??? Ann Evil lives there now. She’ll be jumping out of the frying pan and into the inferno. Tiffany is clearly depressed, and she has every good reason to be. Her father is not only ignoring her, but he’s also allowing a scheming, gold-digging con artist to control her life. She can’t have a moment’s peace without thinking about Ann Evil, and it doesn’t help that she has no money to spend.

Counselling??? PLEASE…!!! Her father and Ann have been making her see a counsellor: Mrs. Fogarthy, of all people. She’s nice, but not competent.

Maybe Des can offer her some hope. Let’s hope…

Tiffany, if you go back to live at your father’s house, you will be making your biggest mistake of your 18 years,

Dez’s word balloon has the best message I’ve seen since my last birthday balloon. Business school is okay. She could major in marketing because what she has, she could really sell. If not, she should find herself a smart, hard working Chaldean who already owns his own store or two. He may well invest in her enterprise and show her the ropes like no one else can. He would also supply her with a 45 cal. hand gun, and have his daughter show her how to use it.

Yaaaay, Dez!! I’m willing to bet that Tiff does really well in business school!!

It’s tough being a bureaucrat.

I haven’t read all of the comments so someone else may have already pointed this out, but…..all of the suggestions about Tiff getting a cosmetology degree and/or a business degree are all well and good. And I hope Tiff listens to Dez and doesn’t drop out of school. But all of that is for a distant, nebulous future.

Tiff needs/wants money NOW! Money she can spend without having to answer to Ann. Maybe she should get licensed as a manicurist and go to work somewhere, although I doubt she’d earn enough to maintain the lifestyle she’s used to. But at least she’d have more pocket money than $2.22.

Of course someone would have to pay for the cosmetology degree/license, and who would do that? Daddy? He may not want to, since he’s already paying to keep her at Moony. And if he DID decide to spring for it, and Tiff got a job, then would Ann convince Tom to cut Tiff’s allowance even more since Tiff’s earning a little money on her own?

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that would happen.

Hit it out of the park, Dez!

Tiff’s problem is that she never asked herself Why she was going to college.

Tiffany has a marketable skill that is in demand. What she needs now is a business structure to take advantage of it. If Bernice wants to be a counselor, she needs to understand there is more than one way to help someone.

need more Dez

Dez makes more sense than Bernie does. But then just about anyone makes more sense than Bernice; I think her brain has shrunk after years of one-note sarcasm directed at Luann….

HOME? With her father and Ann Awful who RULES her father?

Yeah Tiff, get a Business degree, start your own Then put AWFUL Out of Business and Take over your Dads as well as your own.

At least someone is thinking here. Bernice needs to take that advice for herself instead.

Whew! At least she likes the idea of a business degree. I wasn’t sure if she would. Maybe she will do this and stay in school. But she still needs to earn some money. Maybe she can get a part time job at her favorite nail salon?