Current Events > Terrible advice that older relatives have given you.

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Right now I'm having trouble with the FAFSA's IRS tax retrieval tool for my 2018 tax return. So it looks like I have to put all this bullshit in manually.

My aunt tells me that I don't need to do that and what I should actually do is just put $0 for everything no matter what. "I guarantee you, nothing will happen to you," she says.

Yeeeeah, I don't think I'm gonna do that.

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being pushed to go to an art university to study animation

Go to college

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Believe in yourself

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"You'll never get a job applying online. You gotta pound the pavement. Go in, ask to speak to the manager, and hand him your resume personally."

Fuck that. Horribly embarassing, and never worked. You know, the whole time, that doing that is a fucking waste of time and that you've guaranteed you're getting no job by doing that.

Oh, also "go to the best college you possibly can. Don't worry about the cost, we've got it covered. And if it comes down to it and you have to take loans, we'll help you pay them back."

They, in fact, did not have it covered after year 2. And after year 4. I found out that the second part was bullshit, too.

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Take your time dont live too fast, troubles will come and they will pass.

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Depression is not real, all I have to do is work hard and it will make me appreciative of what a good life I really have.

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never do my friends a favor because i'm just being used

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I had a rich in-law who once suggested the best thing to do was buy $20k worth of land somewhere underdeveloped in a state I like in the hopes that by the time I retire it's been built up and I can build a house on the land and retire there or sell it for millions.

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s0nicfan posted...

I had a rich in-law who once suggested the best thing to do was buy $20k worth of land somewhere underdeveloped in a state I like in the hopes that by the time I retire it's been built up and I can build a house on the land and retire there or sell it for millions.

That's not the worst advice tbh

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If you love someone you gotta learn to let them go. If they come back then that's how you know it's yours.

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Not advice to me specifically, but when my brother-in-law was applying to new jobs after graduating college, my mother-in-law was advising him to call back the recruiters a day or two after sending his resume to follow up. And keep doing it if he wasnt hearing back.

Thats a sure fire way to annoy the folks and show desperation as well.

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For years my uncle tried to get me to move to Alabama and work in his chicken slaughterhouse. He said it would be a great job.

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ImAMarvel posted...

This is literally the advice my dad gave me when I was looking for a job. lmao

Thing is, this advice was okay back in like the 60s when desperation was an attractive quality in a job-seeker

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"Take your shirt off and pull your pants all the way down at the urinal kloud."

dont take any wooden nickels

now I have a huge wooden nickel collection


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Dad:Volunteer to be the fall guy for management. You'll get brownie points.

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Squall28 posted...

Dad:Volunteer to be the fall guy for management. You'll get brownie points.

I refuse to believe this one is real...

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Grandma in 2008: "dont vote for a black president because black people all just feel sorry for themselves."

Grandpa who voted for Obama: " you're a bigot."

Grandma: " no I'm not, it's true!"

Grandpa : " you believe that because you're a bigot!"

Me the whole time"

Edit: my grandpa died in 2015 and my grandma just turned 103.

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DarkBuster22904 posted...

I refuse to believe this one is real...

He grew up in a remote village, and his understanding of how the world works is from books like Romance of the Three Kingdoms and tv dramas.

I give him props for making it in America, but it's really hard talking to him sometimes because of this worldview of his. I don't want to shame him for his lack of education, but at the same time, he's so damn arrogant about his beliefs.

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s0nicfan posted...

I had a rich in-law who once suggested the best thing to do was buy $20k worth of land somewhere underdeveloped in a state I like in the hopes that by the time I retire it's been built up and I can build a house on the land and retire there or sell it for millions.

So you're going to buy a 10'x10' plot of land?

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s0nicfan posted...

I had a rich in-law who once suggested the best thing to do was buy $20k worth of land somewhere underdeveloped in a state I like in the hopes that by the time I retire it's been built up and I can build a house on the land and retire there or sell it for millions.

Meet them halfway and spend $50 on a foot of land to become a Scottish Lord

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Some really horrible things about Muslims that I'm not gonna repeat here.

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Flockaveli posted...

Depression is not real, all I have to do is work hard and it will make me appreciative of what a good life I really have.

I have some family that pedals this too, along with the whole "other people have it worse, therefore your problems don't matter" bit.

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RenescoStCewl posted...

Grandma in 2008: "dont vote for a black president because black people all just feel sorry for themselves."

Grandpa who voted for Obama: " you're a bigot."

Grandma: " no I'm not, it's true!"

Grandpa : " you believe that because you're a bigot!"

Me the whole time"

Edit: my grandpa died in 2015 and my grandma just turned 103.

Squall28 posted...

Dad:Volunteer to be the fall guy for management. You'll get brownie points.

Lmao


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DarkBuster22904 posted...

"You'll never get a job applying online. You gotta pound the pavement. Go in, ask to speak to the manager, and hand him your resume personally."

Fuck that. Horribly embarassing, and never worked. You know, the whole time, that doing that is a fucking waste of time and that you've guaranteed you're getting no job by doing that.

Oh, also "go to the best college you possibly can. Don't worry about the cost, we've got it covered. And if it comes down to it and you have to take loans, we'll help you pay them back."

They, in fact, did not have it covered after year 2. And after year 4. I found out that the second part was bullshit, too.

Got both of these trash pieces of advice. Fun fact: I never got so much as a phone call from the places that I pestered. Pretty sure my application went straight in the trash.

My entire generation was told growing up that we "had" to go to college. "You need that degree, doesn't matter what it's in!" and then seventeen years old me agreed to attend a college that, even with scholarships, cost me a few thousand and ultimately didn't give me much more than a piece of paper. Tuition at that college has also doubled from what it was a decade ago. Minimum wage hasn't gone up at all.

Lol I don't remember ever getting life advice

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_Rinku_ posted...

Got both of these trash pieces of advice. Fun fact: I never got so much as a phone call from the places that I pestered. Pretty sure my application went straight in the trash.

My entire generation was told growing up that we "had" to go to college. "You need that degree, doesn't matter what it's in!" and then seventeen years old me agreed to attend a college that, even with scholarships, cost me a few thousand and ultimately didn't give me much more than a piece of paper. Tuition at that college has also doubled from what it was a decade ago. Minimum wage hasn't gone up at all.

I am resentful of the education system. I don't think they deserve a dime.

Balrog0 posted...

Lol I don't remember ever getting life advice

This. No one directly told me anything. I learned from being a quiet kid that liked trying to understand what other people were telling each other.

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

This. No one directly told me anything. I learned from being a quiet kid that liked trying to understand what other people were telling each other.

Hell, I think I'd rather have no advice at all than trash-garbage advice, which is what I've been getting from my family. That's not even going into the questionable/racist stuff that I've always ignored on principle.

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Kitt posted...

Hell, I think I'd rather have no advice at all than trash-garbage advice, which is what I've been getting from my family. That's not even going into the questionable/racist stuff that I've always ignored on principle.

I agree. Being left alone wasn't much of a hindrance. Just being around positive role models is what makes the difference. You'll pick up stuff they drop rather they're directly telling you or just being an example in your earshot/eyesight.

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ArianaGrandSlam posted...

Everyone's a little bit racist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXnM1uHhsOI

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"Vote republican"

"It's just a phase you'll grow out of"

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No one will notice it.

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ImAMarvel posted...

You've heard racist shit from your family? >_>

I'll just say some Silly Billies in my family aren't exactly fans of either Black or White people...

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"you can't live on $30k a year"

Uh yeah I can if I don't live in your big city and eat Chipotle with a side of Starbucks twice a day, every day

ImAMarvel posted...

You've heard racist shit from your family? >_>

You say that like it would be uncommon >_>. Boomers moved different and even millennials are doing the same, just more disguised and timid about it.

I definitely heard some of it from my dad. He didn't care if I had black friends, but he definitely used the career ender word. Might be good he wasn't around a lot and I absorbed all my information fromy mom and sisters.

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Bump for afternoon CE.

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