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What’s the worst advice you’ve ever got?

That’s the topic for this week’s Blog Gang meme, and you can bet your crazy old auntie I’m going to wade in on this one!

Career advice Come to think of it, there’s been one heck of a lot of bad advice in my life – and that’s only counting the pieces of advice I didn’t have quite enough sense (or enough self-confidence?) to ignore.

In rough chronological order, here’s some Really Bad Advice that leaps to memory:
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