Advice from Old PeopleSometimes, just sometimes, old people say something worth listening to. Ok, so it's like picking the needle out of a whole haystack of mis-remembered war stories, but those gems should be celebrated.
Tell us something worthwhile an old-type person has told you.
Note, we're leaving the definition of old up to you, you smooth-skinned youngsters.
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chthonic, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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..."Get into a trade or profession as soon as possible or you will end up in a dead-end office job... The day after graduating with a Biology degree I was in the job centre signing on for the dole."
- You're making the mistake of thinking that a degree and university education is primarily about emploeyment. It isn't. Employers may want graduates - it doesn't follow from that that graduation is the key to employment. Why should it be?
"Don’t be surprised when people are not pleased for your success and are happy when you fail. Quite. As Gore Vidal put it: it's not enough that I should succeed; it's also necessary for my friends to fail.
"You are your own best teacher. That's overwhelmingly bollocks, y'know. However, many teachers are poor.
"There’s nothing wrong with being single, but people will assume you’re gay. Indeed. I must be the only person in the world to have had to come out to my parents as STRAIGHT. They seem not to have understood that my private life is, er, private. If and when I marry, I may tell them. Possibly.
Wasn't "Puddlejumper" a brightly-coloured tram in one of the stories in the Ginn reading scheme in the 1980s?
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 23 Jun 2008, 16:33,
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