This one still resonates with me. I’ve seen Monica Lewinsky’s TED and her interview with John Oliver, and especially the former one has had a powerful effect on me. I see now that how she was treated by the press, politicians, even her friend was brutal. Especially that she was in her 20’s then. Whatever you say about her, maybe it was love, perhaps infatuation, vanity trip or plain ignorance - she just did not deserve the bullying.

As a person who works in the field where you can't drop everything when the clock hits 5 pm, I totally agree with what she says. Work reasonably, if one day you have to work until 8,take some time off the next day, that's how me and my co-worker do it and our boss understands it, it's so easy to burn out. No job is important enough to run yourself into the ground.

Her advice is excellent - the advice she got, not so much.

How long will it take, till everyone get´s that girls and boys can do anything they want to?

depends on the boss, but never think that a boss is going to share their wealth with you for no other reason than hard work. at the end of each day, every boss can replace you for someone else who is a "hard worker"

I see this a lot in the healthcare industry. People get pushed to their limits.

At 26? That's infuriating. I mean, people are 30 and still in university out there. That headhunter knew no reality or was just lying.

That is a notorious cognitive bias known as the “Sunk Cost Fallacy” exercising its powerful grip. By all means, do cut and run when the alarm bells go off in your head.

Well, it’s not brain surgery. Oh, wait.....congrats!

You don't need those kinds of guys anyway. ♥

Not counter-intuitive at all. I know tons of people who loved their hobbies so much they started a business. They were plenty successful, but unhappy and started to hate what they used to love. Not saying it will be that way for everyone. Maybe you will be different. Me? I learned the hard way.

I’m upvoting this one just for the sheer, twisted stupidity of that advice. If you want to go to Nursing School, then make it happen.

This one really depends on the workplace. My first work environment was friendly on the outside, toxic on the inside (took me a while, to realise that, always thought the problem was me). My now workplace is really friendly and I made actual friends here, and, oh my, I can feel the difference.

Or worse, talk about children when you don't have any. Kudos for quitting!

That generally comes from the ones who fear new ideas, because they know they won’t be able to keep up, and will risk looking bad and losing their place as the “indispensable” person in the office who thinks the whole company will just fall apart if they’re not there. It never does, but you’ll come across a load of these people in your career.

Sometimes people can be so blind. Once you set a wall of should-be's in your brain, it's really hard to see.

Soooo, does long hair somehow affect ability? Is short hair a requirement for some obscure reason?

For this advice it's usually aimed at managers. A lot of people have general problems with authority so if you moved up and became a manager, it's difficult to maintain the same friendship you had as coworkers. If you give your friend any kind of break or a special project that could be seen as "fun" then you are showing favoritism.

Just because they're in the teaching profession doesn't mean they will be supportive of your dreams. You do you. To hell with anyone who says you can't be you.

Sadly, I can't afford to quit till I have another one lined up.

Ehhh.... Creepy indeed, but! If you bake and bring cookies for everyone at work, they'll like you regardless of age, gender and work position! Because cookies. ♥

who comes up with that c**p

Let me see... I recall quite a few facial hairs on more than a couple of very successful people. I absolutely loathe people who let their ignorance and racism shine.

Risky? What's risky? Oh wait... I get it now. Someone explain to them that "mentor" is not a sexual thing like slapping a backside. Geniuses. I'm surrounded by brain surgeons in search of a brain to call their own. LOL. Damn straight it's hogwash!

Nonsense. Poppycock. Balderdash. Don't you believe it.

I hear it all the time. I also see it constantly. Good for you! Another victory for critical thinking! Critical thinkers don't get Darwin Awards.

Ahh. Good old critical thinking. I really miss the days when everyone possessed it. Did you know it's on the endangered species list? But hey, look at who we have as president!

I'd like to see the ratio of men to women who have heard this advice. I'd bet more women are told this c**p.

Ha! I've gotten the opposite career advice. I mean, "we", it was something a professor told the class. Something like "do not stay at the same workplace for 10 years / do not accept a 10 year contract - it's a waste of life, you have to gain various kinds of experience." I think, in the end, it all depends on the individual and the job(s) they do.

If you can turn your avocation into a vocation, more power to you! Just don’t end up a 30-something living in your Mom’s basement.

Maybe they were speaking from personal experience?

I was told my math skills were so poor I would never be able to work in computer industry. Wrong. Glad I never listened.

I read that as "don't waste your time educating... fellows, NPC's,..." which made me think "well of course not". Hm.

Might show him up?