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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Careers advice - what can I say? I advise you to get a career.When I was about 14, they made us do a series of tests in school, generally like the kind of "what shape comes next in this sequence?" you get on banner ads, and "what shape can you make out of this squiggle?". They stopped short of the ink blots.
Anyway, we did this test, and a few weeks later got the results of it. Of these, we were told to disregard roughly half as there is "always one or two rogue ones". Thankfully for me, that disregarded 'teacher' - people think that's the only thing I will be able to do with a BA in French and Italian.
This left "radio presenter", "journalist", "lawyer" and "author". The best part of seven years later, I still have no clue what I want to do with this degree and I probably have to go through it all again next year.
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Maladicta, Mon 23 Oct 2006, 15:17,
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