Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 21, 2024

Pig is my idol!

Today’s background music: “It’s Your Thing” by The Isley Brothers.

It is said that Germans live to work while the Italians work to live.

Bob lives to work, Pig works to live.

So true, Pig!

Kind of depends on what you do for a living. While people need more than just work to be happy, it doesn’t hurt to have a job that you enjoy doing.

Priorities!

Ha! A living provides those good friends, food and music. No one wants to be around a cheap skate

It is, Pig. It is.

I’m taking what they’re giving

Life is just a matter of waiting for the end. I work so I don’t have to do that waiting outside, unclothed and hungry

Moves aside ya amateurs. Me is work for food.

An older gentleman I knew always asked ‘’What do you do for fun?’’. Works much better at breaking the ice when meeting people.

There is nothing worse than no work to do.

I’m taking what they’re giving cuz I’m workin’ for a living.

YES! A thousand times, YES! Your job / career is NOT your LIFE! Your job only PAYS FOR your life! It is hard, especially for men, to realize this. LIFE is what happens AFTER you check out for the day, and you go to experience the things that really important – your family, your volunteer work, your hobbies, your recreation. These are the things where you are really needed, your job will replace you shortly once you’re gone, or if they don’t, you weren’t really that vital there to begin with.For thousands of years, no one got to choose their occupation. But now we do, and we somehow get deluded into thinking that is our purpose / mission. That leads to a very unhappy life, because even if you trained for your dream job, there will be days / years when it is just WORK. If you hate your job, join millions of others in history, wipe your tears on your paycheck, and go home and start living.

It is Pig. It really is.

All work and no play makes Pig an unhappy boy.

Pig is so humble.

Bravo Pig

The way you do it is to play tha guitar on MTV… uh… wait… nevermind.

And cheese. Especially cheese.

Classic old bumper sticker “I work to support my weekends”

Family, friends, faith, food.

The four F’s of life.

Work to live, don’t live to work. Take all the vacation time you earn without guilt. Leave work on time. When you’re off the clock, stay off the clock.

Loverboy was working for the weekend.

What kind of job does Pig have?

The Count endorses Eddie Cochran’s sentiments in the immortal “Summertime Blues”.

Yes, Pig, working for a living sounds sad to most Liberals who prefer to live off their parents or the government tax dollars paid by hard working Patriots like The Count and other hard working Conservatives. God Bless America!

“WERK!” ~ Maynard G. Krebs

If you truly enjoy what you do, it ain’t work.

I never argue with pig. He’s always right

The Work-Life balance thing is a good illustrations of why strong unions matter.Here in the EU unions have real power in most if not all countries, they have helped employers realize that it is better when people work smart instead of just crazy hard – the result is people in the EU work less hours, have more holiday and so on while being as productive as people in the US. And this also means that even a McJob working regular EU hours pays a living wage.

I work for beer money.

Taking what they’re giving.

Whatever Bob is doing, all those jobs were gone at the turn of the century when papers went extinct.

We all work for the government, it shows up on our pay stubs.

It is sad pig

All of this philosophy coming from a guy whose work is drawing comics of animals talking.

I guess maybe I got lucky. My spouse and I had careers with serious ups and downs because they were in the petroleum industry, and certainly didn’t retire rich, But. We paid for univeristuy educations for our offspring, who are doing well, we both got to do some really interesting things in interesting places resulting in friend all over the world, and have had satisfing lives with no regrets for things done and few for things not done.

That’s my problem. I don’t work, I don’t eat.

Pig has a life. Despite all his misadventures.

I couldn’t have said it better. Thanks for the reminder.

thank goodness I enjoy my work!