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

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I really love my cat. I also love to make friends with cats and cute small dogs. Whenever I mention that some people tell me I should be a vet. I have several reasons why it's a bad career for me.

1. I get very annoyed by some animals. When I'm a vet I have to spend a lot of time with animals that annoy me.

2. I hate seeing animals being hurt.

3. Animal science and biology is kind of boring for me.

4. Other careers are way more interesting to me.

that I could make a mint selling cutco knives. then amway.

"If you set your mind to it, you can do it"

Uh yeah I would like to have a high IQ, now I guess I can raise my IQ points if I set my mind to it and I have tried to change my learning style and get rid of my learning problems but it never worked.

"You should be a lawyer, you would make a great one, you're great at arguing" "You would make a very great lawyer"

You have to go to law school for it and that is many years of college and I don't think I am that smart if I had troubles through school

people nagging at me to be more like horatio alger.

"If you can type, you'll always have a job and money. Drop math."

That turned out to be true but my soul still wants to go back to math, even while I rapidly and efficiently type this message. But I can't go back because they changed math, the "new math" and I'd have to throw out the first seven years of my old math.

Oh look, I had to add 'math' to my dictionary because it changed this whole message to be about baths. Am I not odd enough without spellcheck.

"join the army, you'll go far." only half-right.

"You're living in a fairy tale land. You can't be an animator or a voice artist".

It's too late for me to be anything.

Don't go for (dream job), only dropouts do that kind of work. Those 'dropouts' make $65,000+

Don't go for skilled trades, the future is in eCommerce

A Commerce Degree will get you a great job you'll love

I know you hate business, but once you get the big paycheques it's worth it (they never came and it isn't worth it)

Play the game (WHAT $@#%@# GAME???)

Its your attitude that's holding you back. Excuse me? I went in with a GREAT attitude and was blindsided after months and then years of getting absolutely nowhere. Unless you are a sociopath, that much rejection begins to weigh you down and make you second guess yourself.

It also didn't help coming from a family where my brother is a certifiable genius with good social skills to boot. I cannot keep up with him but it didn't mean I did not suffer unrealistic expectations due to his universal success. No, I'm not bitter

^ It's pretty overwhelmingly wrong the way they stomp on young peoples' dreams. You're young and naive and just listen to these self-proclaimed experts because you believe they actually want to help you and know better.

If just ONE person would have sat down and honestly and fairly discussed these issues it would have saved years of headache. Someone who could have told me the job prospects weren't there and it probably wasn't a good fit. Instead, I spent years applying for jobs I assumed I had a shot at. I did not.

For example, one job I applied for was a accounting clerk and a shady auto repair shop. It paid barely over minimum wage so I thought I was a shoe-in. When no one was looking, I leaned over at the HUGE stack of resumes: the top one had a CA, CMA and CGA designation! I knew at that point I was wasting my life and all it took was one person to sit down and tell me this: I would have gone back for a skilled trade where the jobs were at the time sitting empty because there was nobody qualified!

I had a major meltdown about this last night. Sure, I have an ok job, but I never imagined I would be in this situation at age 33.

"You should become a nurse."

Bad idea.

Just keep running head first into a brick wall for a day or so. You'll achieve the same effect and save money on school books.

Middle School guidance counselor: "You are too quiet to be a lawyer."
Inside my head: "You are not worth speaking to, therefore I am quiet, moron."


Parents (repeatedly, for years and years): "You should be a photographer!"
Me: "For the last time; No."
My mom said this so often that eventually extended family started believing I actually wanted to go into photography .


College guidance counselor: "What subjects are you interested in?"
Me: "Astrophysics, math....etc."
Guidance counselor: "What about meteorology? You should be a weather girl!"
Inside my head: "Get the f*** out"
Me: "No." *Death stare*

What was your dream job?

my dream job was to be a broadcast engineer, or at least a recording engineer but circumstances kept me out of it.

<---Was a recording engineer for years in NYC and Seattle. Engineered and produced the following albums:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Y ... ic&sr=1-27

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007D ... s_sp_ps_dp

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0058 ... ic&sr=1-14

https://www.amazon.com/Quartermoon-Robi ... uartermoon

When I was younger I was so obsessed with drawing cartoons and dreaming of becoming a cartoonist that my mother and even a psychologist said I needed to broaden my interests and get into other types of art, like painting realistic stuff or sketching. The psychologist even said my only wanting to make cartoons was like a baby who is good at crawling and so decides never to learn how to walk.

What a load of bull! They just thought I would be a failure at drawing cartoons for a living and were trying to crush the one thing in my life that I was actually good at. This was like telling someone who has a natural talent for playing the piano to suddenly start playing the bagpipes which they don't have a talent for. I did try making "real" art for a while, but I didn't enjoy it and it sucked. Why are people trying to make you into something you're not?