Can be financial or emotional.
My dad told me to buy the most expensive house I could afford, at the youngest age possible as years later I'd look back and be so glad I did. Well I did that and it was the best financial decision I ever made.
My old sales boss told me that no matter how bad a day, or week I was having at work or in life (as long as it wasn't illness that was out of my control), that I would look back in 6 months time and laugh, as it wasn't that bad at all. It just seemed like it at the time. It's true too, if it's not a life changing/threatening ailment then you just get on with it. Whenever things have been really low or I've had work problems I try and think ahead, because 'no worry in the world is worth the worry'!
Joining my company pension scheme at 17 after being set on whilst on a YTS. Had no idea about these and to be honest you had to opt out as opposed to opt in but I was advised it was a good thing to do. So glad I did (I'm now 45).
Not advice as such but support - 'Do what's right for yourself, I'll support whatever you do'. My mrs said that in 2009 when I was so fed up with work. I was debating voluntary redundancy. Applied after talking with her and it was the best thing I ever did.
Sadly i ignored it
The only piece of advice my parents gave me I should've listened to was study, study, study. Everything else I should've taken with a pinch of salt.
I have been given all kinds of advice. Pretty much everyone I ever come across has advice to offer. I learned to blank it out at an early age, thank god, so if there was ever any good advice, I'm sure I missed it, including the best.
The best piece of advice I can give you in response is that the only correct time for a man to wear grey shoes is when they are wearing a maroon suit.
To sack the builder who had gutted my home as requested, but was then incapable of putting a single room back in action.
The only correct time would have been about 1985.Originally Posted by seffrican
Exactly.
Mek sure tha saves summat every week lad, Bricklayer i was apprenticed to in 1984
Here for a good time not a long time, A great but much older friend 1992.
Don't put off till tomorrow, what you can leave until the day after.
Never go out with a woman who dances with her hands and arms above her head.
They be crazy
an old truckie when I had a student summer job on the wagons.
B
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If you cannot afford it, you cant have it. Always lived by that rule
Don't waste money on slow horses or fast women.
Buy cheap buy twice - this has served me well for years.
Don't eat yellow snow
The best advice I was ever given ...... ;-)
"Don't ever give people advice! Because the wise don't need it, and the fool won't heed it."
This, I used to have a friend Tom who used to say this on an almost daily basis
Cut the blue wire.
Wear Sunscreen.
M
never run down stairs with your hands in your pockets.
Just go and ask her.
Grab the cat!
Try everything at least once in your life,with 2 exceptions:
1/Incest
and
2 / Morris Dancing.
Avoid lunchtime drinking.
Excellent advice, regularly ignored
Just because she looks over 18 , it doesn't mean she is !
Best advice I ever got was from my dad; aged 16 in 1974 all I wanted to do was get out of school and get a job. Dad knew someone who worked at ICI who suggested I contact them for a job. I got accepted as a lab assistant, studied part-time, and had a decent career as a development chemist.
One of the few times I took notice of my old man!
Paul
Use the other door.
'Never put your finger anywhere you wouldn't put your dick' from a wise old fella out on site one day (with a couple of half digits on each hand - so perhaps only wise after the fact)
Finger trap injuries are by far the most common injury in my industry & I've since lost / bent a couple of screw drivers, but can still (badly I admit) play my guitars.
You have two ears and one mouth ,use them in that proportion .
Mr James Skinner ,my science teacher 1968-1972 .
Also just happened to be an ex R.A.F. Lancaster bomber navigator during WW2.
From my mother......
"When it's raining porridge - make sure your bowl's the right way up!"
Al
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
This has served me well in many meetings.
If it flys, floats or f**ks it will be expensive...
I have never been able to prove that bit of advice wrong. :-)
1975
From the operations manager at Warwick Wright service centre near Wormwood Scrubs park (I was in the process of giving up being an apprentice mechanic)
"Get a job working with computers, there the next big thing - it wont be long until they're everywhere"
Silly fool I thought - been watching too much science fiction on TV
Ignored him and got a job as a trainee storeman in an auto parts shop. Silly fool.
"don't f***ing kid yourself"
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Similarly, "Don't stick your dick in crazy"
An old stager once told me when I were an apprentice, "Son, advice is free, but experience, you pay for"
Spend less than you earn and invest the difference.
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
In a similar vein, if you don't fall over you're not trying hard enough....
Never crap on your own doorstep.
never lend money unless you are prepared to write it off
no good deed goes unpunished
if you have nothing to say - say nothing
if you want something only rely on yourself to get it.
And finally - people typically regret what they didn't do, not what the did.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nice
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend in need is a pain in the ass.
Don't wipe your ar#e with the sporting post....
Because you will get scores on your ar#e
Under-promise and Over-perform.
From my grandfather, if you want something then save up for it, never never borrow money. (Mortgages excepted)
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I heard it as "if it flys, floats or f**ks..rent don't buy! 😂😃
Never eat curly meat.
My Uncle said that to me when I was a kid, never forgot it.
Cheers..
Jase
I am reminded of: Don't eat the green wobbly bit.
From my grandad,once you finish your apprenticeship you can do what the hell you want.....oh and never wipe your arse with a broken bottle 😂😂
From my dad; "Neither a borrower, nor a lender be."
From one of my best teachers; "When going on holiday, take half the clothes and double the money."
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