Useless adviceAs a new parent, people seem to think it's OK to pass on any and every old wives tale possible. "Don't hug him too much". What? Quite what possesses people to pass on baseless, idiotic, useless advice I don't know.
That said, I quite often give car drivers directions and then, after they've moved off, realise that I've sent them down a bike-only route, so I can give as good as I get.
What useless advice have you been given (or handed out) recently?
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chthonic, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 10:29)
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Bah!All the way through school, college etc. I never new what I wanted to do when I grew up. I pondered this for hours whilst tinkering with my spectrum 48k, and then later playing lots of music really loudly. The advice I received from my parents:
- Don't play to long on your computer, you'll hurt your eyes.
- Don't play so much music so loudly, you'll hurt your ears.
Soon enough it rolled round to the end of my GCSE's and I had to choose options for my A levels. Mum, being a teacher at a private school snuck me in to their computer room to do some kind of career test thing. The computer's advice:
- Be an architect
- Be a window cleaner
- Be a teacher.
I didn't want to do any of these, and as they didn't do courses on tinkering with computers and playing music really loudly at the time, I did some other stuff and ended up at uni doing Media Production with Business. Which I've never used.
So after going through the UK education system and running up a massive amount of debt, only to gain qualifications I've never used what do I do for a living?
I'm a techie and I DJ for a bit of extra cash.
I could have been doing that aged 14 if I hadn't followed anyone's advice.
(, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 12:59, Reply)
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