Lurkers' week: what's the WORST piece of advice you've ever been given?

Years ago at a hairdressers I fancied a change the hairdresser persuaded me to go shorter in length, by the time she had finished I had short hair! I absolutely hated it

"Northern Rock or Ice Bank are offering excellent interest rates for savers; you can't go wrong putting your savings there....." WRONG!

Sometimes two faces are necessary. No, never.

To stay at school when I wanted to go to college.

Lemongrove - I'm in stitches at the image you've painted. Did you get the job?

The worst piece of advice was when going for a job interview
In London, in a high building, somebody telling me to take the stairs because the lift was always ages in arriving.
True, it wasn’t coming down and seemed to be stuck on the fifth floor, but I really should have waited.
Arriving on the seventh floor sweating like stoker really wasn’t a good look.

Mine was "No, don't leave him, stay and try and work things out". for the sake of your children. Yes, I listened, and Yes, they were wrong.

I listened to my sister who said I should take my state pension as soon as I could-instead of, if I’d waited a year (I was still working) I’d be getting 10% more. All right for her she has state pension and a good NHS pension too!

Holly steers I sympathise with you. I too left it very late and wished I’d had it earlier same results.

I wanted to be a hotel receptionist got offered the job and my dad said it wasn’t for me. I’ve never really settled with my job and always wondered what if?

I have never been given any bad advice! I have been given advice...some I have taken on board and some I have ignored.
As Erica Jong said "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”

"Calm down" from someone who didn't have to live with the results.

My mother bless her, urging me not to have a hysterectomy (“Wait for it to pass”)as she had one in her late thirties (I was older) and she had a nervous breakdown. She also had a hospital phobia. I ended up in a bad way, having blood transfusions etc., before having the op.

Time heals ...not always.

He's no good for you he'll leave you in six months!
30 years later we are still together and are still in love ?

@SueLindsey ...give it time, you may still find it useful..lol..

This is rather a sad one. The week my 35 year old sister lay dying in hospital-she had cf - and she was visited by a nun. "She's suffering for all the poor children in Africa," I was told, within the hearing of my sister. The anger I felt inside me has never left.

"It is what it is"!!! Hate that expression - No, it does not have to be.

“It’s Not For You”

From my mother who hated my career choice but I went ahead anyway and loved every minute.

In the days when we did what are parents told us to. I wanted to join the WRAF (Women’s Royal Air Force) I was persuaded (told) to leave school at 16 and get a ‘nice, safe office job.’
I always regretted not going to university or learning a trade in the WRAF,
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“Well I would, if I were you”.

(But you’re not!)

When The Halifax demutualised, we were advised to keep the shares and not sell, as they were so solid like 'keeping the family silver'.

We did as advised, and most of us will remember the economic crash of 2008, and our shares were drastically reduced, making them almost worthless.

We lost quite a lot of money.

"Everything happens for a reason" NO. IT. DOESN'T. It's a cop out.

To sell some shares I'd inherited. I got £1000. That may sound good, but within months they had rocketed and a year later they were worth 8x what I sold them for.

Hmm. It could have been my mother saying I should wear my glasses instead of the contact lenses for my wedding, because I "looked more like me" apparently with them on.

Wrong. I looked more like Deidre Barlow in those massive bins, and thank goodness I changed to the lenses after the ceremony and at least got a few decent photos of the day!