#664: Academia vs. Business explain

[Cueball sits at a desk in front of a computer, leaning back in his chair with both hands down to his side. There are cans on the desk and more crushed ones on the floor.]

Cueball: I just wrote the most beautiful code of my life.

[Zoom in on Cueball and top half of desk.]

Cueball: They casually handed me an impossible problem. In 48 hours and 200 lines, I solved it.

[Curved lines with arrows divide the comic into two possible end panels, labeled “Academia” and “Business.”]

Academia:

Professor: My god… this will mean a half-dozen papers, a thesis or two, and a paragraph in every textbook on queuing theory!

Business:

Boss: You got the program to stop jamming up? Great. While you’re fixing stuff, can you get Outlook to sync with our new phones?