I'd have told my 16 year old self to go into joinery or some other skilled trade.
But he wouldn't have listened, or would have been too lazy or physically incapable to do it, the big wuss.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:49, archived)

See?
If you'd really wanted to do it you would have done. The big decisions are the really easy ones as you can't possibly do anything else.
( The Cat's Mother Not a People Person., Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:54, archived)

It was more a case of being brainwashed into one course of action, even to the exclusion of all others.
Or, more cynically: being duped into the most lucrative, yet legal scam in history.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:57, archived)