Can I ask you a question?

And will you breathe on this tree for me

Have you heard the tip, that when you meet someone new you shouldn’t ask their job, but instead ask “how do you spend your time?”

It’s a nice idea. Assuming everyone has a full-time career leaves many people out, and why are we centering conversations around capitalism anyway? I’ve been asked “How do you spend your time?” and found it disturbingly existential, but I appreciated the thought.

Do people still ask kids what they want to be when they grow up? When I was a kid, it felt like everyone wanted to know. And I wanted an answer for them.

Welcome to Issue #2 of Nervous Magazine, about what jobs we wanted when we grew up. Nervous magazine is a monthly newsletter with more comics than usual. And you’re already reading it! This is how you spend your time!

What kind of benefits do wizards get

As a kid, all jobs fell into two groups: jobs I knew about because people I knew did them, and jobs that didn’t seem like jobs at all, and in hindsight weren’t jobs at all.