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What is the best advice you have ever been given?

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  • #32
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    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."


  • #33
    beejee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    Get out of that garden.

    Get off that wall.

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


  • #34
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭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?


  • #35
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users Posts: 8,297 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


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


  • #36
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #37
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


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


  • #38
    washiskin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,360 ✭✭✭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.


  • #39
    Satta Massagana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭Satta Massagana


    Stay away from the bookies son.


  • #40
    Charlie19
    Registered Users Posts: 11,711 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #41
    everlast75
    Registered Users Posts: 18,954 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Speak softly and carry a big stick..


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  • #42
    s4uv3
    Registered Users Posts: 952 ✭✭✭s4uv3


    "Know your own worth"


  • #43
    Immortal Starlight
    Registered Users Posts: 2,074 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    A closed mouth catches no flies.


  • #44
    Ferajacka
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭Ferajacka


    Don't eat anything bigger than your head.


  • #45
    porsche boy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,560 ✭✭✭porsche boy


    Act your wage.


  • #46
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,306 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


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


  • #47
    SoundsRight
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 408 ✭✭SoundsRight


    Treat them mean to keep them keen.


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[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.


  • #49
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭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


  • #50
    TCM
    Registered Users Posts: 736 ✭✭✭TCM


    I've forgotten.


  • #51
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,434 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


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


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  • #52
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Advice is for people who need it.


  • #53
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭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.


  • #54
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Seize the means of production.


  • #55
    vargoo
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭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


  • #56
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


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


  • #57
    Prominent_Dawg
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Prominent_Dawg


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


  • #58
    justshane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭justshane


    Follow your gut.


  • #59
    Jessie Belle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Jessie Belle


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


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[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


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  • #61
    passremarkable
    Registered Users Posts: 4,508 ✭✭✭passremarkable


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


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