Rain
Comic 1290 - Part-timer
Author Notes:
And oh, Rain might be getting a part-time job! Fun behind the scenes fact: I originally wanted to have Rain get one much earlier in the story. You may have thought at one point or another of this comic, "this story goes into the struggles of dealing with family and school while trans, but it notably leaves out the workplace". Well, I meant to include it in the beginning. A lot of my early vision stuff changed, though. New characters and arcs I didn't plan from the beginning showed up and took the story in very different directions that never really lent enough time for Rain (or really, any of the kids) to be shown dealing with adventures in employment.
But I wonder, what kind of job do you suppose Rain would be good at? :)
Anyway, next week, we'll get to check back in on Emily.
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2. It can be surprising how not customer facing some jobs you might think were customer facing really are. Like, before I worked as a bagger in a grocery store, I felt like that job would require dealing with customers all the time. I mean, it's right there in the job description.
My coworkers at said grocery store felt the lack of attention the customers paid to them was incredibly dehumanizing, but as someone who didn't want that interaction, it really helped me get settled into that job in the first week.
It can also be a good job for people watching, because they're right there, and studiously avoiding noticing you. So long as I did my job at least acceptably well, nobody ever complained about me listening to how they talked and interacted with other people.
Mind you, different stores are different, sometimes due to management and sometimes due to their customer base. I can only really relate how bagging was at one store at one time. But there's probably others somewhere that are similar.
Just thinking out loud here.....
But to be fair, I *did* binge read the whole thing in a few days. Which is weird considering I, a self-proclaimed lover of books, have not read a single book this whole quarantine. And yet, here I am, 1290 pages into a web comic I started reading earlier this week. Love it, by the way, it's so cute! So I guess I'll join the ranks of people eagerly awaiting more! :)