Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 14, 2022

Uncanny. ✨

how unfortunate for Bernice

Bernice as a lawyer is as bad as Bernice as a psychologist. Lawyers needs to listen to their clients. Bernice only listens to herself.

Luann confirmed as a school teacher. But really there are a wide variety of school teachers. Her fate nee not be that of teacher Fogarty.

Bernice as an Attorney? She would annoy the Jury so much, they would always decide against her client. LOL

Being a Supreme Court Attorney would be perfect for Bernice!!!

Attorney! Oooo.. I like it. Bernice Halper, Esq. Bernie the Attorney.

She’d be better off doing that than trying to be a psychologist …

Kindergarten Teacher Luann?

Poor Luann. Even her aptitude test can’t make up its mind!

Bomp bomp bomp-bomp WOOOMMMP

Why do I get the feeling though if I took one of those tests, it’d say I should be busting rocks with my head? (I seriously doubt anyone here will get that reference).

You’re looking at the wrong line, Bernice. It’s supposed to be the one above that: “Warden at a Maximum-Security Prison”.

If the shoe fits…

Figuring out other peoples business sounds about right for ole Be-nice. Don’t you think?

Bernice you love to talk but there more then just talking with being a Attorney at law.

Go join Delta, Bernice. We have had enough of you.

Can we please have a Tiffany story now?

Has Bernice ever won an argument?

AH!! I called it a while ago. I said she’d be a better attorney than a psychologist. Perfect. She can snark all day long. She ought be a happy camper right now. No need to bush around the bushes. Just give it straight. Zero into the heart of things. Ah. Heaven!

I can actually see Bernice as an attorney for a hard nosed union like the Teamsters, with smoke filled negotiation sessions and pictures of Jimmy Hoffa on the walls. I can see her pounding on the table and getting in the face of those slick corporate men, then going across the street to a local bar and knocking back a couple of beers with the rest of her legal team.

Bernice don’t dispute the wisdom of the test, it is very accurate in your case, with your smart mouth and know-it-all attitude, you would be the most hated lawyer of all!

Perfect for Bernice. Now, she can argue with herself all day and all night, except now it would be professionally.

Like others have said, if Bernice gets to argue cases in a courtroom, she’ll annoy the judge, jury, executioner, her client, just everyone. But! She won’t be a therapist. That would be fantastic. Oh how I hope she changes her major. She might stop pretending she can analyze Luann or at least cut back on that a little.

Actually, Bernice would be a perfect attorney. She has the psychology down, super organized, focused in facts, and relentlessly proving she’s right.

How unfortunate for them. Luann seems chained to becoming a teacher and Bernice is starting to facing the fact that she’s not fit to be a counselor. I can imagine Bernice will want to talk to Mrs Fogarty about it. I actually want to see them talk about it! In the end, both Luann and Bernice can ignore the test and try to do whatever they want.

Bern = tax attorney or low level prosecutor.

Well, things have a way of coming around. I’m glad that Luann’s aptitude test favors the career she wants. This may also be a hint that Mrs. Fogarty may again pop up from time to time to guide or mentor her through the inevitable rough spots. I have been a teacher, not all that easy at times.

She’d end up being one of those annoying attorneys that advertises non-stop on TV. “Has your home recently been affected by a fire? CALL ME, Bern Halper! My name says it all!”

Real client who is awkwardly reading from a cue card: “I called Bern Halper, and she got me $2 million.”

Bernie the attorney does have a certain ring to it… :D

I love teaching. Working with teenagers is awesome.

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all lawyers.” William Shakespeare.

I was not at all surprised that Luann’s aptitude was to be a school teacher, she has all the attributes necessary to be a great other than believing in it; what’s interesting is Bernice’s outcome, I knew being a counselor was not it. Attorney is perfect. She can be both arrogant and helpful, being an advocate. Much better choice.

Cue up sad trombone: “Muah muah muuaaaaaah….!”

An attorney? Yep that’s perfect for someone as contrary and argument as her.

Prosecuting attorney. She finds fault in everyone. Perfect.

A fate worse than death. I’ll get you some rat poison.

By what we saw how Luann answers, indecisive, bipolar people who cannot do math are suitable to be schoolteachers.

Bernice will be the tort in torture.

Actually an “attorney” is perfect for Bernice!

I think She’d make an excellent prosecutor/D.A., and I said so a couple of days ago.

And judging by her actions when she was a Dorm R.A. and during that study ball session, Bernice WOULDN’T be one of those Soft on Crime, D.A’s that are currently cropping up all over the Country these days.

No siree-Bob! Somebody steals 60 inch flat screen TV that Fed-Ex just delivered to your front porch, and that you worked your arse off to buy, there ain’t going be no “Let the perp go because Flat Screen cost less than $900,” CRAP. Not under District Attorney Bernice Halper’s watch!

Attorney!

GO for it Bernice!!

Or better yet, become a hanging judge, like that one in the movie, “Hang-em High.”

[DUCKS] ;-)

Bernice’s briefs, never are.

I think Luann would make a good teacher. Eventually..

Bingo

Luann could be a teacher. She just needs to learn how to enforce boundaries and honor established policies. After that bow and arrow incident, I shudder to think what she would allow in a classroom just because she can’t stand up to anyone. Just say no, Luann.

Oh, and as far as Bernice goes – now she can finish college and go to law school – all of this being paid for by the parents she shuns. Greg and Karen need to fix that dynamic to make Bernice believable.

Seems accurate to me. She almost talked Luann out her dream. My worst annoying sibling (who often has facts mixed up – because they think they can argue reality) is an attorney and just like Bernice. Truth does not matter – everything is up for debate. This can be annoying to people who have “reality” science backgrounds and not political science.

From her response, Luann also sees Bernice as an attorney.

Luann’s biggest hang up about being a teacher is her fear of misleading children. But he forgets, She doesn’t have to teach just young-lings. she could always shoot for Jr high and high school kids. They would fit more in to her emotional and mental state.

tomorrow Luann spots that Bernice mixed up the papers …. she’s supposed to be the lawyer, and Bernice the teacher. :-/

“I want a new job – lion taming!”

Bernice…old flap-jaw will definitely be held in “contempt of court”.

I did one of these career placement test way back in my senior year of high school. Suggested careers: military officer (not a chance), park ranger (would have been a good option) or physicist. I ended up spending most of my working life as a research technician for physicists.

How do you score a question when you selected every option

As someone who’s actually done this stuff… You’re not going to get a full profile from a single number. I know, I know, the concept is simplified for the sake of being in a 3-panel comic, but it annoys me that it’s misrepresented.

This is fun and all but I still think Luann would make a far better school counselor for kids than a school teacher! She’d be awesome as a counselor in a grade school setting. Maybe even have a job where she travels from school to school so she’d interact with all kinds of children. She has empathy and loves kids dearly and is creative but it takes way more than this to be a good teacher. You have to be tough minded and have self discipline and focus in order to succeed as a teacher. She has not demonstrated any of this.

My test said Notary Sojac.

I can see Bernice as an attorney. She’ll argue all day if she believes her client.

In my last year in high school in 1979 they had us use the school district mainframe to do a “new computerized” assessment of what we should be in our careers. You answer a bunch of yes or no questions and it tells you what you want to be. I was already pretty sure I was going into computer engineering, but it told me I wanted to be a jeweler. It allowed me to ask why, and I had said I wasn’t interested in working outdoors all day. What a valuable tool that was (I did not end up becoming a jeweler)

Bernice talks but never listens so attorney would fit her.

A couple of things here. 1) Bernice would make a terrible trial lawyer. Lawyers actually have to be likable to work with jury’s and clients, and she is setting herself up for a lifetime of billable hours misery that she is not academically prepared for (take a business class). She might be an OK behind the scenes non trial lawyer. 2) I think part of why Luann is correctly wary of the results is currently, teaching as a profession, has a huge disconnect between the requirements of the actual job of public school teaching vs. what is taught in a college to prepare teachers. Luann had a taste of what real public school teaching would entail (working with admins and parents) at kids first and didn’t like it. Couple that with low pay and lack of respect and all that test is saying is you’d be a great martyr, Luann. I wouldn’t accept those results either. 3) Finally, I have a real distrust of these tests having done these a couple of times as they never come back saying you would be a great sex worker/criminal mastermind/drug dealer! These lucrative careers very much exist sooooo there is clearly some strong inherent bias built in.

Not all attorneys are litigators.

B absolutely should be an attorney. She clearly would never make it as a psychologist.

I could see her as an attorney. With her attitude and snark,she would be a great divorce lawyer.

After babysitting Shannon,Luann can easily handle 24 normal kids at once.It’ll be like a vacation.

A job skills assessment test would give you a range of jobs you might be good at. Not just one job. Many jobs utilize the same skills, like forest ranger, marine biologist, etc.

I find this depressing regarding Luann’s aptitude results. While I have a great respect for teachers I was really hoping that the strip would let her make a major change in her life and be inspired by an unexpected career choice suggestion. If the point of the arc was just to have Bernice go to law school instead of becoming a psychologist that honestly doesn’t make for particularly interesting future stories – it’s like Gunther in Engineering school. It’s a “respectable” career but probably won’t figure in the storylines at all.

Well, I think she would be a better attorney than a phychologist.

Most attorneys aren’t trial attorneys but no harm in pursuing it…….

It’s accurate-ish. We all make our own destiny. If you want a career badly enough and are willing to do all the work necessary to achieve that you can often (but not always) succeed where others are who have more natural aptitude will not. Passion and a willingness to do a whatever work is required will get you further than any raw talent you may have.

Bernice the Kraken!

Bernice—corporate attorney specializing in mergers and acquisitions.

If Lars Fusco can make it in law, Bernice should be OK.

Lol! Retest? =:-o. Wonder if Luann will feel differently about tutoring now?

The best part about this is how it wipes the smug off Berniece’s know it all face.

Luann, hurry up. We need all the teachers we can get. Just be prepared to deal with a lot of BS.

Luann has it right in the last panel. Bern will now argue with the test results. Note, a psychology degree is perfectly fine for applying to Law school (if she wants that). And Luann can now have more confidence that maybe she made the right decision after all.

Bernice as Ally McBeal? I don’t just don’t see it.

Face it, Luann. You are doomed to a lifetime of being mocked daily by the little brats you will be obliged to serve!

Bernie is just mean enough to become a successful litigator….

It is an appropriate job though. She is an adversarial character

Well Andrew Jackson decided to become a lawyer so he could get paid to argue.

It happens. My parents forced me into one career. I wasn’t sure. Decades later, I took a similar test to see what I really should have been…and it was that same career. So awkward.

Much legal work doesn’t involve arguing cases in court. Bernice loves detail work. She might be very happy.