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OFFICE GEOLOGY / No. 18 / Client engagements

The overtime lifestyle

Better tools promise more free time. Financing has other plans.

  1. Chip01

    I bought tools to save time.

    Chip admires a new stack of toolboxes.
  2. Vera02

    We financed the tools. Then a truck. Then a boat.

    Vera adds a pickup and a boat to Chip’s purchases.
  3. Chip03

    Now I work enough to never use the boat.

    Chip works late while the financed boat sits unused outside.
Office Geology · SoftBoulders ConsultingMeet Vera, Chip & Flint
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  1. Panel 1

    Chip admires a new stack of toolboxes.

    Chip: I bought tools to save time.

  2. Panel 2

    Vera adds a pickup and a boat to Chip’s purchases.

    Vera: We financed the tools. Then a truck. Then a boat.

  3. Panel 3

    Chip works late while the financed boat sits unused outside.

    Chip: Now I work enough to never use the boat.