What's some bad career advice you've gotten?

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^ At the risk of derailing this thread I'll keep it short.

I played in bands for years then, when MIDI came out, bought equipment and set up my own little recording studio.

One of my clients decided to rent space in Times Square to open up a recording studio. He wanted me to engineer there with my own equipment so I did. It was a partnership that lasted 1 1/2 years.

I worked at other midtown studios while there. When our rent doubled we closed shop because we weren't one of the big boys like Unique, Quad or Giant Studios.

In Seattle I got back into playing in bands again and built a home recording studio.

My whole adult life (18 to 51) was spent under the influence of drugs and alcohol, including the times I was a musician/engineer and fiction writer. I stopped those artistic leanings because they came hand in hand with the alcohol which I don't use anymore.

^^^thank you for that explanation funny how creativity all too often comes with demons.

My parents told me more than a few times that I should be a lawyer because I like to argue. !st off I don't like to argue but felt I had to with them because they were very critical of my many Aspie quirks & my other disabilities & issues. In regards to be becoming a lawyer. I struggled in school a lot & had no desire to go to college. I also wouldn't be able to cut it as a lawyer because I get terms, dates & other information confused & mixed up due to my dyslexia. I also sometimes say the wrong words when I'm talking & know I'm meaning to say something else due to my dyslexia. I have problems talking sometimes because I have a tremor disorder that can affect my voice & I get angry very easily when I'm arguing which has caused me to have many meltdowns.

My parents have also told me more than a few times that I should work at McDonalds because I like to eat there a lot. I don't think working in that environment would be safe for me because of my tremor disorder. It gets worse when I'm anxious or stressed & I wouldn't handle the pressure of rush-hour very well. I also have a rare low vision disorder that causes me to be very nearsighted even with glasses, I have some colorblindness & light sensitivity. I also have problems with my brain not processing things I see right away; like I could look rite at something I know I can see but not process that it's there. Cooking with grease & using a stove & oven is very dangerous for someone with my many disabilities. I have worked as a dishwasher thou at IHOP for 10months but that's not the same as working in a kitchen.

The worst career advice was: you're so intelligent, you could do anything, you just need to learn how to get on with people

that was way before I started suspecting asperger and when it was unknown condition though.

"Plastics".

Some other crappy career advice I got is my dad telling me I should deliver mail. That wouldn't be too bad if he was just telling me about what job I should get. I'm not too snobby about jobs. But I can be pretty snobby about my career. Now I know delivering mail isn't a good job choice either. I hated delivering flyers. It's a good thing there's entry level jobs related to my interest.

I can't say I can recall ever receiving any career advice. Perhaps I could deduce from this lack of guidance that I am a lost cause and should remain unemployed for my entire life.

my myers/briggs test told me I was best suited for literary and legal fields. but I dunno

In high school: "you can be a librarian or something where you don't need to talk to people"

In my first full time job, which involved client liaison: "Smile more and be friendly"