My jobs were made more fun and interesting by drilling down to learn as much as possible about all aspects of the work and taking on projects which technically weren’t part of the job.
Really this is just a restatement of Daniel Webster’s “There is always room at the top.” You may be very good at a thing or not so much, but so long as you’re better at it than others it doesn’t matter how crowded the field is.
In short, The Peter Principal. In an organization, a person rises to his level of incompetence.For this to work, however, everyone “under” him must be less competent. This also includes Vice-Presidents.
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
Best d@mn hamburger slinger in all of Ohio
codycab over 1 year ago
Or maybe do work that involves gross stuff? Like a plumber or garbage man? Maybe be a health inspector and hope that you’ll find gross stuff?
bluram over 1 year ago
Rots of ruck!
Scorpio Premium Member over 1 year ago
There is always national politics.
sirbadger over 1 year ago
It is easy to be better than most politicians at running the country, but worse at getting elected.
Mediatech over 1 year ago
Politics it is then.
sandpiper over 1 year ago
Or estimating election outcomes
Calvinist1966 over 1 year ago
Another strip which shows that Hobbes understands Calvin better than Calvin understands himself.
MayCauseBurns over 1 year ago
Try journalism
Susan00100 over 1 year ago
He could be a better lazy bum than Andy Capp!!
And without a wife to support him!!
chuckcork1 over 1 year ago
There are plenty of openings in politics, the competition for being worse than everyone else is pretty fierce though.
pathfinder over 1 year ago
Nobody has mentioned weather forecasting. Or … baseball (where a 35% success rate is considered wonderful.)
Prey over 1 year ago
So, politics it is then.
jjboyjr over 1 year ago
Congress!!
Red33410 over 1 year ago
“Where everyone is worse than I [am].”
mourdac Premium Member over 1 year ago
My jobs were made more fun and interesting by drilling down to learn as much as possible about all aspects of the work and taking on projects which technically weren’t part of the job.
ekw555 over 1 year ago
politics would be the obvious answer.
Pet over 1 year ago
So, weatherman?
;-))
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
Dreams of grandeur. ….until he gets in the real world…a boy can dream, can’t he?
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Sooo, crime? Speaking of which, what ever happened to that bare foot bandit guy?
dflak over 1 year ago
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” – Mark Twain.
rshive over 1 year ago
Hooray! They didn’t go off the ledge today!
mfrasca over 1 year ago
Science fiction writer.
Redd Panda over 1 year ago
politics?
uniquename over 1 year ago
He wants to be the big fish in a little pond.
fritzoid Premium Member over 1 year ago
Really this is just a restatement of Daniel Webster’s “There is always room at the top.” You may be very good at a thing or not so much, but so long as you’re better at it than others it doesn’t matter how crowded the field is.
mindjob over 1 year ago
Try Leadership. That’s something no one on earth is good at right now
The Wolf In Your Midst over 1 year ago
So Calvin’s going to be a voter? I mean, all those crooked politicians couldn’t get into office without ’em!
g04922 over 1 year ago
Love Hobbes – the voice of reason and reality in Calvins’ make-believe world.
mistercatworks over 1 year ago
Try for “long-running comic strip based on the adventures of one six-year-old boy” profession. :)
ChessPirate over 1 year ago
“Yeah, it just might, at th… Hey, wait a minute!”
kathleenhicks62 over 1 year ago
Seems very possible.
dragonbite over 1 year ago
Ah, going into politics I see.
KEA over 1 year ago
my experience with many students was they’d go through all kinds of effort to avoid “work” or even worse “thinking”
smsrt over 1 year ago
Ah! Government work! Great idea.
musicnut1986 over 1 year ago
He’ll join the “Church” of scientology.
Comicsarecool over 1 year ago
OMG GOCOMICS HAS CALVIN AND HOBBES TOO IVE ONLY READ 3 STRIPS AND I LOVE IT
Marty241 over 1 year ago
In short, The Peter Principal. In an organization, a person rises to his level of incompetence.For this to work, however, everyone “under” him must be less competent. This also includes Vice-Presidents.
Le'Roy Hawkins over 1 year ago
Politics is the obvious answer
liberalnlovinit over 1 year ago
Didn’t work for TFG…
John Williams Premium Member over 1 year ago
I’m glad Mr Watterson chose cartooning. There’s none better.
Guilty Bystander over 1 year ago
Elections are only a few weeks away. Too late to file THIS time but there’s 2024…always room for one more reprobate in D.C.
Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 1 year ago
Politician?
Bilan over 1 year ago
How many commenters are going to suggest politics as if they’re the first one to think of it?