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What is the worst advice you have been given?
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enudzio
27-12-2016
When I was playing GTA , my brother said "press circle and you join the police force" I did and ending up punching the police officer.
Pitman
27-12-2016
someone told me to quit cannabis as it was illegal, so I ended up a non-functioning alcoholic
Lyricalis
27-12-2016
I was advised to do an O level in technical drawing rather than do computer studies. Apparently there was no future in computers, according to the deputy head of my comprehensive.

Fortunately, I ignored his advice and did computer studies anyway. I've now been working as a software developer for over 25 years, so I think it's probably more than a passing fad, this computer stuff.
Pumping Iron
27-12-2016
That I'll be fine eating ice-cream in Brighton.
Lyricalis
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by Pumping Iron:
“That I'll be fine eating ice-cream in Brighton.”

I hear Russia is considering banning it. Those (not) Top Gear presenters are just so influential.
Leicester_Hunk
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by Pumping Iron:
“That I'll be fine eating ice-cream in Brighton.”

Don't let Richard Hammond see you.
Laurel1ne
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by Lyricalis:
“I was advised to do an O level in technical drawing rather than do computer studies. Apparently there was no future in computers, according to the deputy head of my comprehensive.
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+1 I went to my interview with my Careers Master and told him that I wanted to go to University to do Computer Science I was told that this mainly a degree suitable only for boys

And that as I was pretty maybe I should take up typing and marry a Middle Manager on the way up of his career ladder

It might have been understandable if this was early 60's but was the later 80's

Recently I went back to the School to give a talk on getting more of the girls interested in a career in STEM
miss_astrid
27-12-2016
I took my dad's advice not to do psychology at GCSE or A Level as it was a "dud subject". I'm now studying it at degree level and I have to say I really enjoy it, and honestly, there's so many career paths you can go down with psychology. I didn't do it for that reason though, I've always been interested in psychology (especially mental health).

And conversely, the best advice I've ever heard is "don't do it (a degree/learn something) because you think it'll make you money or get you a high paying job. Do something you love, and you'll never work a day in your life" ... that's kind of two bits of advice mashed into one, though.
Lyricalis
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by Laurel1ne:
“+1 I went to my interview with my Careers Master and told him that I wanted to go to University to do Computer Science I was told that this mainly a degree suitable only for boys

And that as I was pretty maybe I should take up typing and marry a Middle Manager on the way up of his career ladder

It might have been understandable if this was early 60's but was the later 80's

Recently I went back to the School to give a talk on getting more of the girls interested in a career in STEM”

I was actually called a traitor to men for helping out on my company's scheme for getting girls interested in STEM careers! The fact that I also help out on the general STEM scheme (aimed at all young people), plus another scheme aimed at encouraging older people interested in retraining into STEM careers seemed to have been conveniently ignored by this particular plonker.

I was also told, by another careers adviser at my comprehensive, that I needed to be realistic when I said I wanted to be a scientist or engineer. He said I should aim to work in a shop and maybe could eventually become a shop manager. He also said it was too late for me to apply for sixth form now, so should look into YTS schemes. He was quite put out when I told him I'd already applied to and been accepted by a sixth form .
LakieLady
27-12-2016
My late mother was an ex-nurse, so I trusted pretty much everything she said on medical matters when I was young.

When I hurt my arm in a fall, I was convinced it was just a bad sprain, because I could bend it which, according to ma meant it wasn't broken. After going to work for 2 days in a lot of pain, I finally took myself to hospital and found it was broken in 3 places.
Laurel1ne
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by Lyricalis:
“I was also told, by another careers adviser at my comprehensive, that I needed to be realistic when I said I wanted to be a scientist or engineer. He said I should aim to work in a shop and maybe could eventually become a shop manager. He also said it was too late for me to apply for sixth form now, so should look into YTS schemes. He was quite put out when I told him I'd already applied to and been accepted by a sixth form .”

Absolutely this. I had one of the highest Baccalaureate grades in our Lycée and I came away with pamphlets on going to secretarial college of working in a shop and if I really did insist on going to University then I should be studying the arts rather than a STEM subject
Lyricalis
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by Laurel1ne:
“Absolutely this. I had one of the highest Baccalaureate grades in our Lycée and I came away with pamphlets on going to secretarial college of working in a shop and if I really did insist on going to University then I should be studying the arts rather than a STEM subject”

I always tell my nieces to never put themselves into a box and certainly don't let anyone else do it for you!
Sylvester2007
27-12-2016
An ex girlfriend said it would taste nice.
Brandon_Smith
27-12-2016
Originally Posted by enudzio:
“When I was playing GTA , my brother said "press circle and you join the police force" I did and ending up punching the police officer.”

To "just be yourself"
eggchen
27-12-2016
Don't eat ice cream, because it means that you are gay apparently.
Arcana
27-12-2016
If you're attacked by a mob of clowns, go for the juggler. 🤡
Fairyprincess0
27-12-2016
What piss me off is all those adverts for washing detergents.....

They all tell me to 'keep Away from children'.

What do they think ill do to them????
TheEricPollard
28-12-2016
Pretty much all advice. Most people are terrible at giving advice, don't listen to anyone.
What name??
28-12-2016
Originally Posted by Fairyprincess0:
“What piss me off is all those adverts for washing detergents.....

They all tell me to 'keep Away from children'.

What do they think ill do to them????”

Poison them...
RobinOfLoxley
28-12-2016
Originally Posted by LakieLady:
“My late mother was an ex-nurse, so I trusted pretty much everything she said on medical matters when I was young.

When I hurt my arm in a fall, I was convinced it was just a bad sprain, because I could bend it which, according to ma meant it wasn't broken. After going to work for 2 days in a lot of pain, I finally took myself to hospital and found it was broken in 3 places.”

Same here when I fell off the Wooden Beam in School Gym, I put my hand out behind me as I fell. It's a common injury, I later found out.

School Nurse pointed to the bruising on my wrist to confrim it was just a sprain.

I said it was paint stains from my previous Art Class (which it was). She didn't believe me but gave me a couple of Aspirin..

2 days of exquisite pain before my Mum took me to A&E.

X-ray confirmed one of the bones in my wrist was broken.

Plaster cast for a few weeks sorted it. No long term problems.
razorback Tony
28-12-2016
Before the Lyceum Music Venue in Wellington St. Strand, turned into the Lyceum Theatre, they would have Sunday night dances to records, for silly money on the door, maybe the equivalent of 50p, something like that.
I was in there one night, mid 80s I think, with a friend, Danny Wood, and he said, "Let's break those two girls up, I'll take the one with the long hair, you have the blonde, trust me, she looks like a right dirty bird."
Like a mug I fell for it, and ended up dancing with a bible puncher, another wasted Sunday night.
balthasar
29-12-2016
Let's go skiing, you'll pick it up in no time.
No really it's fun.........
realwales
29-12-2016
I've been pretty damn good at ignoring bad advice and stubbornly following my own path, though obviously there have been mistakes along the way. Here are some of the worst:

School's Career Adviser

Your ideal career is as a hotel receptionist (this advice was based on a very odd computer programme, which also told a friend of mine to become a chimney sweep. He later graduated from Durham and now has a career somewhere in the legal profession, I think).

My Father

Oh, where do I start with him. If he was around today, he'd rightly be accused of psychological and emotional abuse. Looking back, it's hard to distinguish where his own mental health problems ended and his abusive behaviour began.

I'm glad I ignored his advice on how to treat people of other races, which career to pursue, how to treat women and many, many other things.

I'd probably get chucked off DS if I repeated some of the 'advice' he gave on matters of race, but on women, it went something like this: "When you get married, don't allow your wife to have too much freedom. If she's home late for work, ask her where she's been and check. If she's out without you, make sure she is only around women. If she's around men, even as part of a bigger group, it'll cause problems with your marriage."

This sort of lunacy extended to his views on all sorts of other things. Poisonous old drunk!

My Mother

As I recently discussed in another thread, she wanted me to pursue a career in classical music, even though it was only ever a hobby for me, and even then, only one really pushed upon me by her. She was trying to live her own unfulfilled dreams through me.
grumpyscot
29-12-2016
"Buy shares in the Royal Bank of Scotland". Advice was given in 2001.

Glad I decided not to!
NeverEnough
29-12-2016
"Vote Labour son. They represent people like us".
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