Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 05, 2021

If you have to work, find a job that is fun.

The trick is to find work that IS play (except for the paperwork and meetings).

“Without labor nothing prospers.” Sophocles

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas A. Edison

“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” Stephen Hawking

“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” Jonas Salk

“All wealth is the product of labor.” John Locke

“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” Mark Twain

Huey Lewis And The News – Workin’ For A Livin’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIK3akktLU

Loverboy – Working for the Weekend (Official Remastered HD Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsgBpsNPQ50

Get a haircut and get a real job / George Thorogood

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WNg3DTBQGgk

Strange how that works.

A very praiseworthy strip, but I hope today’s kids have more imagination.

My mother used to take us out to pick wild strawberries. That was a heck of a chore. A whole day, shot to hell. But in the dead of winter for dessert on Sundays she opened one of the jars of strawberry jam that we had with fresh cream and bread for dipping… It was like opening a jar of sunshine.

What great ass cartooning and a most excellent story line.

I always thought it was “makes Jack a dull boy”.

It makes Jack a dull boy, not Johnny. Hmph.

said no child ever, ok maybe 95%.

“They” also say “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.”

You’re right! I should stop reading this comic and just work.

If we all did the jobs we loved we still be in the stone age. I don’t know what world most of these commentators come from but all the people I know work to live, not live to work.

Working in manufacturing, I always saw it as creating. Makes the job easier.

69 years old and still trying to figure out who “they” is/are. Are the same “they” that say “all work and not play …. et al” the same “they” that we talk about when we say ""they’ say it’s going to rain today"?

This lesson was actually tolerable.

My dad worked a physically demanding job and had to be tired when he got home from work, but when the lawn needed mowing, I can remember him saying, “Well, I think I want to mow the lawn.” Not “have to” or “need to,” but “I want to” … It’s all in the attitude. I try to remember that.

This kid should tell this to Caulfield.

Church!

This was nicely done.

I’ve never heard anyone say that.

I SO love this one…