What's the worst piece of advice someone has given you?
I once came to a high school counselor really upset because I had received a high B in my AP Calculus class for the first semester (it was a two semester long course). I told her how upset I was because I thought I'd fail if I had to take another semester (this was my first B ever in a math course), she agreed with me that I would probably fail and recommended I drop the class.
I wish she would have reassured me that I would have been fine. I had to take calculus again a couple years later for my degree because I didn't get credit for it back in high school since I dropped the course.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I think it was "No" for sure, I think.
GipsyOfNewSpain
Level 9
Apr 7, 2018
1
Wow, that was terrible advice, and very discouraging. Sorry for your experience! Perhaps your parents should've followed up with the counselor and principal.
GoodMan
Level 7
Apr 7, 2018
3
Wow. Someone, a resident at my old place and is one here, told me weed smoking would be fun. I came home high, the next day I got my 30 Days Notice for eviction. I ended up staying by going to a drug rehab. I've not smoked since. He now has many on the list for being warned or evicted here. He's in the room next to me. He reeks of weed and it's against the rules to have it here. His room smells like weed. Yet, he hides it well. No one has caught it on him to evict him. Idiot!
Sarahroo29
Level 8
Apr 7, 2018
1
Mea:
I don't have an issue with people doing what makes them happy, but I do think it is wrong for someone to pressure another person into doing something. Especially when that something has the potential to get them in trouble.
@Mea I get paranoid on marijuana. Now, every time I smell it coming out of his room, I let someone know. He needs to learn a lesson. He's on his last warning for smoking in his room. He has to he found with it on him to be evicted.
An insurance agent told me to pray my depression away after an accident. Not in those words necessarily, but that was the basic gist, haha.
TheFighter23
Level 5
Apr 7, 2018
1
Don't become a journalist. You're not pushy enough.
seaspot_run
Level 7
Apr 7, 2018
1
The worse piece of advice I ever got was “Don’t take advice”.
ReBrew2115
Level 6
Apr 7, 2018
1
i was told when i was pregnant with my first son, that i should have an abortion because i was young, unmarried, and didnt believe in a god. she said normally she doesnt believe in abortion, but since i don't believe in a god, nobody will want 2 adopt my child when i fail 2 be a good mother...he is 15 now and a pleasure 2 be around. im happy with the job im doing so im glad i didnt listen 2 that piece of advice.
Byrd
Level 7
Apr 7, 2018
2
"Everything happens for a reason. God helps those who help themselves." Of course thats just doing something yourself and then giving god credit 
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AustinSkepticus
Level 7
Apr 7, 2018
3
"Never have sex with someone more than 10 years older than you or more than 10 years younger than you". That was never a problem in my experience.
Palindromeman
Level 7
Apr 7, 2018
1
Walk away from your house and move into low income housing = from my Mother's lips -to my response of "fuck you."
sassygirl3869
Level 9
Apr 7, 2018
3
My high school guidance councilor. He told me that going to school for Biology would be a waste of time. I would never get a job in it. I needed to consider the military.
Years later he attended one of my lectures on Biodiversity.
Reignmond
Level 7
Apr 7, 2018
3
Mea:
I'm almost finished with my bachelor's in Biology! 
@Mea
I have gone from being a professional NY State Naturalist, to Fisheries Tech with GaDNR, to a Conservation Planner with NRCS/USDA, and now I am an Environmental Compliance Officer with Newton County. And this is in spite of never actually getting a degree. I do have enough college coursework for a Masters but I switched schools a lot and so didn't complete a sanctioned curriculum at a single school. My diverse college background and OTJ training and extraneous training courses made me way better qualified for my current position which draws from environmentalism, conservation, agriculture, law enforcement, and construction.
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