Worst advice you've ever received?

[Parche]

:shrug: :hi:

[jpljr77]

1. Vote for Bush, because Gore might be a Communist. n/t

[Symarip]

2. The 486 is the last computer you'll ever need to buy!

The Japanese are crazy over laserdiscs. You might as well buy a player - it's bound to take off.

You should buy real estate now. You'll be a deemed a genius in 20 years for buying a condo during this boom.

Go ahead and sell your copy of No Doubts first 7 inch single. This is as big as they're ever going to get, you hate them, and we need beer money.

You two should get married. She's so in love with you - she'd never do you wrong.

[guitar man]

3. when I was advised

to take on a business partner back in '00. If I hadn't, I would probably still have a business and wouldn't be working this stinking job. :(

[skygazer]

4. Listen to Parche

:rofl:

[Tom Kitten]

5. The best friend you'll ever have is the dollar in your pocket...

All my friends have left me!:cry:

[skypilot]

6. Put butter on a burn.

:thumbsdown:

[mainegreen]

7. That's really bad advice.

[skypilot]

8. I know.

I found out the hard way. My mother actually gave me this advice. She was full of bad advice.

[underpants]

9. It involved buying a Wilco CD

That's all I can say about it

[cloudbase]

10. Buy the best slide rule you can,

because as an engineer you'll be using it all your professional life.

(I still have it!)

[edbermac]

11. A therapist once suggested that I should join the army.

At that stage in my life I would have ended up on a roof with a rifle.

[deepthought42]

12. When a prof told me

to take 7, 8 classes a semester to catch up to my graduating class (I lost a few credits when I transferred after getting my Associate's) because if I didn't graduate on time I would ruin my life.

Asshole.

My grades suffered as a result (surprise?), I wasn't sleeping well, and I nearly had an emotional breakdown (maybe had a small one), dropped the 2 classes I had with him, changed my major (so much for voice performance), and took an extra semester to graduate. That's all I needed. One fucking extra semester. Had they been willing to work with me on that extra semester, maybe things would be different. Maybe I wouldn't be resentful and bitter about undergrad, and unsure of where my life's going. Maybe. That school's gone downhill...

[billyskank]

13. To ask a US friend if she'd like to meet up again before I left.

It was well meant but worked out badly. :(

[kimmerspixelated]

14. Take a left on I 35 ,

Drive north to E40, then 81 on up to Ronoake.

[MorningGlow]

15. Never, EVER turn down ANY job you're offered

Thanks, mom. :eyes: It's taken me 42 years to unlearn that bit of indoctrination. Even now, as a freelancer with the freedom to turn down shite jobs, I have to listen to "Ooh, are you sure you should do that? It's good money..."

Yes, she is a workaholic who grew up during the Depression. How could you tell?

[Writer]

16. Go tell HR about how that guy's sexually harassing you. n/t

[Renew Deal]

17. Join DU

:evilgrin:

[Guava Jelly]

18. Tell her about it...from Billy Joel

:mad:

[mokawanis]

19. Break up with your girlfriend

I ignored the advice and married my girlfriend. We're still together 26 years later. :)

[Lincolngirl]

20. Go off your medication

It's all in your mind.

Ended up in the hospital with no sharp objects written next to my name.

Take it everyday now!

[CreekDog]

21. "You gotta listen to this song...

it's by Rush" :eyes:

[petronius]

22. "Go ahead - tutch the but!"