There’s not much more that I can add to this comic. I’ve been out of work before. Most recently from 2015-2017 (though during that stretch I had some freelance and I had a 5 month contract job) and then briefly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I suppose maybe that there aren’t many job openings at the beginning of a year. Or maybe businesses aren’t actively looking, though they still are posting the occasional job. Or maybe once they see my age through my resume they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I realize that this is a pretty depressing comic, but when you write/draw a comic truthfully based on your life there will be times when you can’t hide from how you really feel. That you have to speak the truth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Am I overreacting here? A Monday after Thanksgiving and despite all the encouraging words both recruiters gave me on Wednesday the argument could be, well, it’s the first business day after the four day holiday weekend. Everyone’s just getting back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I didn’t have room to get into the details of what Shorkey Auto has done to the area where the neighborhood I grew up at. He bought land around half of the neighborhood, removed all the trees and flattened the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s bad enough that it seems as if the total of chocolate marshmallows included have been drastically reduced over the years, but the cereal itself seems to have some sort of coating, almost plastic like. And of course, in keeping[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I probably shouldn’t be as down as I am, I mean I’ve gone through something like this before. Many times. But I guess because the job sounded so good and creative and everyone I spoke with during both interviews were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When you’re down. When you’re depressed, there’s nothing else really to say. Fortunately when these feelings occur I can write and draw about it. Putting it on paper helps, but it doesn’t change anything.
It’s a weird feeling. When you first start getting wet in the rain you feel uncomfortable. All you want to do is find some place undercover and out of the rain. But, if you’re out in the rain and there’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After I left Hasbro in 1989 I still had a lot of friends working there. But, with every acquisition of another toy company, (Kenner, Parker Brothers, Milton Bradley, Tonka, etc…) there were numbers of redundant employees, so Hasbro would just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…