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Next Steps (Patreon)

Published:
2023-02-13 02:02:38
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2026-06

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Zig Justice

Make science go now! . o O (That's what I say whenever I sit down at a desk.)

Michael

So people need a structure to work off of, I know I do.

LH

time to science the shit out of this!

CorruptDropbear

Oh. They don't have ANY structure. At all.

chili sunrise

I am still so confused why she would want Claire to turn down the job!!

ValdVin

Did they just hire Elizabeth without telling her what her job entailed?

Tannerbot

She looks so lonely there.

Photon

"I'm smarter than all of you." So... um... why am I here?

Sean Kinlin

Time to connect to the Cubetown mail server and install the appropriate enterprise software and..... Wait, this is Cubetown. Time to set up your own mail server and code all the applications you'll need and....

Rob McBobson

You can sing the end text to the Freakazoid theme. "Time to play some solitaire! Freakazoid! Freakazoid!"

Michael Boettger

Probably more common than one might think, coming from such a controlled arena, such as academia, when one finds oneself on one's own, the question of "now what?" Likely comes up often.

Sean Kinlin

I suspect that we will slowly learn the good doctor's motivations as this flashback unfolds.

chili sunrise

I assume so I’m just impatient!!

Michael Boettger

Make (whatever) go now is more common than you think. There was a T-shirt (Make ride go!) Is an unofficial Disney employee product.

KingAtticus

I know I had a similar feeling after graduating college. I was in school for a majority of my life at that point and then suddenly I gotta work but didn’t know how or what to do. Fortunately it got better, but at least I was in my early 20s then. Poor girl doesn’t have even that, or rather she got it sooner than she should have 😭

Bozo The Hunk

Like Tragic Kingdom by: No Doubt

awgiedawgie

Particularly when one's job has not been clearly defined because one's employer has no idea what they hired one to do.

Captain Button

People who know more about long hair than I: Her hair seems much shorter here than in Marten's Quest For Coffee. Does that tell us something about the minimum timeframe, or is it just something where she has it all bound up in that ponytail?

Zig Justice

Honestly I'd expect it to be very common given that it's from The Simpsons. But that anecdote about the Disney shirt is still really damn funny.

Rob McBobson

I mean, last strip said "two years ago", so I'm guessing this took place about two years ago. ;)

Greg R.

Okay, I feel that. Everything leading up to the Great Work, all the preparation, the credentials, the praise, the recognition that you are the very best one to do it and then… what exactly was the Great Work going to be again?

Orion Rhine

Elizabeth has spent the past two years collecting a hefty paycheck for very minimal work, if any. If someone were to come along and actually quantify what she has contributed...

Rich Holmes

Seems like more than two years' growth (esp. in the last panel of 4970) but who knows, maybe her "now what" ended up being "research acceleration of hair growth". Or "develop time travel".

Orion Rhine

My other theory is that she has done quite a lot, but fears that it isn't enough and she'll get kicked out of the place she loves.

Is it cold in here?

"If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room"

Kyle

I have a hard time imagining someone getting a PhD in any field without being left with burning curiosity for its unsolved problems and unexplored areas. Then again, I guess she did speedrun it?

Mad Marie

So is that room full of loose paper just a giant pile of self-rejected project ideas, accumulated over a two-year span?

Thisguy

Is that why she doesn’t want the librarian? Because she’s afraid Claire will find out she does nothing?

Thisguy

That seems to be their modus operandi. Hire smart people and tell them to do whatever and see what happens.

Populuxe

Time for Minesweeper.

Yelling Bird

"Now what?" The final sentence of any college career.

Drazi

I hate when the employer says "here's your title. Now define it". It's happened once. I left as soon as it was an option.

Sean Kinlin

Attempts at proofs that ended up with counterexamples.

Julie Chan

I have the same feeling when we brought our baby home from the hospital.

Andrew

*Checks grant proposal* … oh no.

Da Nargh!!

Every once in a while I get half of my ponytail lopped off and in about 6 months its back

Minzoku Bokumetsu

she forgot to ask for work to do =p GOOD NEWS, MORAY OFFERED IF THERE WAS ANYTHING SHE NEEDED

Bill Silvia

I think two years should be 24 inches of growth

Bill Silvia

I had a job that functioned alright like that for a while. The problem was, it resulted in upper management seeing me as doing nothing, thus being treated like I had never done anything the second they got involved.

Bagge

Oh honey. That one is rough

Miyaa

Wondering if Cubetown is the science equivalent to Hotel California?

Photon

An inversion of the classic Poker saying: "Can't tell who's the chump? It's you."

Photon

Clearly hasn't had enough coffee... yet.

elektra p

Clare clearly needs to stay, they don't just need a firm hand, they also need a central person who understands humans.

William Cole

Pursuing a PhD is a lot more self-directed than an undergrad degree, but it's still pretty structured: you have classes to take, exams to pass, and a thesis advisor giving feedback (hopefully) on your research. It can be a big jump from that to being completely on one's own, especially if its a place as disorganized as Cubetown.

Chauncey

I’m smarter than a room full of first graders. But, seeing that I have no children and I’m not a school employee, I’d wonder what I’m doing too. Knowledge without purpose is just trivia.

Chauncey

That’s usually the point when I start to inquire about what’s happening around me in an attempt to figure out what I can apply myself to. I’ve have jobs where I’ve been hired under a generic position and when my first day came, I was told to hold tight until they figured out where to put me. I’d give it about 15 minutes before I find a broom and start cleaning. It shows initiative and gives me an opportunity to scope out the shit show I’ve found myself in. I’m a technician by trade, but in practice, I put out “fires”.

Stephen Wells

I finished my PhD twenty years ago and this strip is giving me terrifying flashbacks. I'll be over here screaming silently into a pillow.

Luis Rebelo

start your new job in customer support!!! but don't worry! it's only a stepping stone! and with your background you will get there faster than everyone one else!!! (paraphrasing my own life..)

legobil

Well, they didn’t back then. And I’m sure they still don’t.

Stephen Wells

repo California: you can -checkout any time you like but you can never -commit

R. Francis Smith

seventh panel: something abruptly bursts into flame why yes, I do work in IT

Clifton Royston

She wants to spare Claire this particular hell, perhaps?

OldGoat

Veronica needs to design a work uniform for Claire.

OldGoat

She hates being called, "Lizzy." (I don't blame her.) We don't know how she fells about just, "Liz" at this point. Elizabeth is too many syllables and too many keystrokes. Same goes for Doctor Appleboom or just Appleboom. For now I shall refer to her as DA or DocA unless and until she states another preference.

Clifton Royston

@Drazi There are those who hate that situation, and there are those who love/hate it. I'm not sure there's anybody who purely loves it. You can count me somewhere in the middle of that love/hate sector.

Clifton Royston

Elizabeth doesn't realize it, but I think she needs Claire so so badly, both as a source of structure and as a role model. What we saw in Claire a few strips back is that even when Claire is terrified, she's prepared to tackle this sort of completely unstructured situation and has the mental toolkit to do it. Elizabeth + Claire's skillset and outlook = unstoppable.

Todd Ellner

Could be worse. Could be "Betty" or "Bitsy"

Josh Moberly

As someone who very recently started his first office job...yes...many solitaire games have been played.

Leak

Are you talking about the window behind her? Because I'm certain that's other parts of Cubetown and the ocean...

Leak

Or "What, now?"

ValdVin

Cubetown is starting to resemble the thousand monkeys* at a thousand typewriters. Pretty soon one of them will compose "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times". (*Exceptionally intelligent ones, though.)

ValdVin

It seems to work out better on Hanners' Dad's space station.

Mad Marie

I’m referring to the room just outside her present day dwelling, shown a few comics back.

Mad Marie

Elizabeth needs a Mrs. Landingham to shout “What’s next?” at.

Ace of Hearts

this is what Wikipedia is for. I learned so much about giraffes during my University co-op work

awgiedawgie

24 inches in two years would be extraordinary. I don't want to make assumptions, but she appears to be caucasian, and the average hair growth for a caucasian female is about 5 inches per year (Asians have the fastest hair growth, with Asian females averaging about 6 inches per year). So two years should be around 10 inches. When I was her age, mine grew about 3/4 inch per month, and the stylists were amazed. When I passed around 35 years old, my hair had slowed down to about 1/2 inch per month, and now at 52 years old, it's more like 1/4 inch.

awgiedawgie

"Sentence" - in more ways than one.

awgiedawgie

How about "Lizard Breath"?

Michael Chui (Duiker)

@Chauncey ... are you sure you're smarter? You have more life experience, sure, but is that the same thing? :P

Chris Heg

No one is as competent as you imagine them to be. Just do what you can do.

Josh Moberly

I understood that reference.

Conrad Rogers

I think wikipedia hours should be logged as part of your CV

Daniel Drazen

I know they're easy to draw, but a bookshelf without books is wasted space.

Clifton Royston

When 'Wired' magazine sold for a whole ton of money at the height of the dot-Com boom, Kevin Kelly used part of his share to hire a reference librarian full-time as his personal assistant. I've been so envious ever since I read that.