A Midday Lunch of 25+ Brown-Bagged Funnies to Get You Through the Workday (September 29, 2025)

Have you ever been so brutalized by a shift that you consider quitting on the spot after your lunch break? With bags under your eyes and exhaustion taking over your heart, the thought of returning after lunch to your client-facing role or your manager's biweekly meeting sounds like torture. Rejuvenated by a moment's relief, your brown-bagged lunch didn't seem appealing this morning when you packed it, but by the time 11:30 rolls around, you're counting down the minutes until you can eat that pathetic PB&J.

It's on these dismal lunch breaks that we reassess our careers. Strife is normal at work every now and then, but we shouldn't be slogging every single day for meager wages. This discomfort may ignite a passion project in your soul to find a career that doesn't make you want to pull your hair out and doesn't cause heart palpitations. 

Imagine a workday that doesn't result in another gray hair sprouting? What a life that would be…

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