Where do you think you’ll be five years from now.
on May 22, 2017 at 12:01 amThis strip ran September 10, 2002, which means it’s the Fifth Anniversary (of Roomies!) Strip. Hence the Color Sunday on a Tuesday! Also hence the subject matter of “where you were five years ago and where you’ll be five years from now.”
Five years from here, I’d be almost three years into Shortpacked!. Right now at this moment, I’m not far from drawing the Dumbing of Age strip that will land on September 10, 2017, aka the Twentieth Anniversary (of Roomies!) Strip. So the part of me that’s an old curmudgeon is thinking, “look, you two fictional kids, you’re way too young to be this retrospectivey, and also I have to hurry up and type this before one of my two twin boys wakes up cranky from his nap.”
I’m sure fifteen years from now, I’ll roll my eyes at current me thinking I’m an old curmudgeon.
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Life as recursive curmudgeony and fractal retrospection. … guess that’s an answer to “where will you be five years from now”.
Don’t forget the never-ending hatred of your younger self for being such a dipshit.
Yeesss… my younger self. Sure.
The related comics sound pretty curmudgeonly themselves:
Other than his bodily functions
Detected us
One small snag
Where am I?
I-Is it over?
Doog and Blair
Suspicious
Who’s the girl?
BAMPF!
Just… wow
So I saw Billie the other day
Come right out an’ ask it
NNNNNGH!!
I’ll lay you down over there.
Never let go, Joyce. Never let go.
Effin’ Dina
!!
Declassified
Portfolio
Pay up pay up PAY UP!
that was random
Trust me, you have not yet begun to curmudgeon.
I’ve grown to dislike that question, because it seems to be one in a slew of bullshit questions asked at job interviews. I have no idea where I’ll be five years from now. I don’t know where I’ll be next week, let alone in five years.
Originally posted:
September 10, 2002
Also,
The way I see it, at 20-ish, thinking in 5 year increments is okay. Things move fast and you change. As you age, plans become more and more long term. Better payouts, but more grunt work.
For where they are and where you were.
I think it fits.
College friend was asked where he wanted to be in 5 years. Told interviewer “Sitting by a beach, sucking down margaritas.” Interviewer: “Is that a realistic plan.” Friend: “No, but you asked where I *want* to be and that’s where I want to be (not working for this company).” He’d been on too many ridiculous interviews at that point and decided on the spur that he could afford to tell the truth to one of them.
And here I figured they were going to IHOP.
Okay, here’s the first walku I got that I’ve felt was really appropriate enough to post:
Walkerton! Hi!
Gotta talk to Dina
What to do
Without him
Lovestruck nonsense
Kinda fits the mood of this strip, eh?
This strip fills my heart with warmth. <3
This strip hits the perfect balance between sweet and nihilistic. Bravo.