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What is the best advice you have ever been given?

QueenOfWexico

Might be nice to have some wise thoughts to reflect on. I’ll start.

A good friend once told me “you can’t always control the situation, but you can control how you react to it.”

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An older and senior colleague seeing me stressed out with a heavy workload (all due to staff shortages)
I had just said to him that I was thinking of working at the weekend to catch up.

"Don't make the firm's problem your problem."

beejee

Get out of that garden.

Get off that wall.

Two pieces of sagely advice that have steered me to success in life.

SmartinMartin

beejee wrote: »

Get out of that garden.

Get off that wall.

Two pieces of sagely advice that have steered me to success in life.

Burglar?

Gloomtastic!

Simples, treat people how you would like to be treated.

Pauliedragon

"No ****in way are you going into construction"
My old man said that to me when I was about 5 years old in the 80's when I followed him around as a chippie wanting to be like "my dad" He meant well the 80's weren't great.

Doctors room ghost

If you’re not first you’re last.ricky bobby

washiskin

When I was a teenager, agonising over an unattainable fella an older lady said to me
"Look, he sh1ts and farts like everyone else"
Best advice I ever got.

Satta Massagana

Stay away from the bookies son.

Charlie19

Pauliedragon wrote: »

"No ****in way are you going into construction"
My old man said that to me when I was about 5 years old in the 80's when I followed him around as a chippie wanting to be like "my dad" He meant well the 80's weren't great.

So what line of work did you persue?

everlast75

Speak softly and carry a big stick..

s4uv3

"Know your own worth"

Immortal Starlight

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Ferajacka

Don't eat anything bigger than your head.

porsche boy

Act your wage.

mzungu

Don't put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear.

SoundsRight

Treat them mean to keep them keen.

[Deleted User]

honeybear wrote: »

What's for you won't pass you

hate this one

nobody ever says it to a bereaved person or a cancer victim.

Chancer3001

mzungu wrote: »

Don't put anything bigger than your elbow in your ear.

Its meant to be SMALLER.

as in, yout elbow doesnt fit in.and dont put anuthing smaller in... i.e. put nothing in there

TCM

I've forgotten.

xzanti

Have more than you show and speak less than you know.

Your Face

Advice is for people who need it.

Pauliedragon

Charlie19 wrote: »

So what line of work did you persue?

I ended up studying marketing but worked in hospitality. My hands were no good anyway so I dealt with people which suited me better.

WoollyRedHat

Seize the means of production.

vargoo

honeybear wrote: »

What's for you won't pass you

Coming from the same place as life begins at forty or 60 is the new forty.

All b0llox

WoollyRedHat

Serious answer, from my grandmother who was always one for a good Tibet of advise 'They're only people.'

Prominent_Dawg

Stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything!

justshane

Follow your gut.

Jessie Belle

Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life.

[Deleted User]

Jessie Belle wrote: »

Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life.

Find a job you love and you'll work many more hours for a lot less pay than a job you can put up with.

Best advice I got?

Eyes open, ears open, mouth shut

passremarkable

It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.