Worst piece of advice you actually followed, and what happened

[Beta]

Someone told me to just follow your passion and the money will follow, quit a genuinely stable job in my twenties to pursue exactly that, spent two miserable years broke before crawling back to a normal career path

There's a real difference between advice that's technically well intentioned and advice that's actually good, and I think most of us have at least one story where we trusted the wrong voice at the wrong moment

Not fishing for pity here, genuinely curious what other people's version of this story looks like, the advice that sounded wise in the moment and turned out to be a genuine mistake

[Beth3.0]

Fake it till you make it applied to a job interview where I claimed expertise I didn't have, got the job, spent six absolutely miserable months barely keeping up before finally admitting the gap and getting properly trained

[Freddie]

Someone told me never go to bed angry during an argument, so my partner and I stayed up until four am hashing something out that would have resolved itself naturally with a good night's sleep and some actual perspective

[Distant Kernel]

Always trust your gut was bad advice for me specifically, my gut instinct in high pressure moments is consistently wrong and I've had to learn to actually override it with more careful thinking instead

[Wardlow86]

You'll know when it's right applied to buying a house, waited for some magical feeling that never came and nearly missed good opportunities waiting for a certainty that was never going to arrive

[NadirDriver]

Just be yourself for a job interview, tried it completely unfiltered once, bombed spectacularly, turns out interviews do require some strategic self editing

[Holly43]

Never apologize first in an argument because it shows weakness, followed that for years and it just made every single conflict last twice as long as it needed to

[Ellie_28]

Someone told me to invest everything I had in a single hot stock tip because it's a sure thing, lost a painful chunk of savings learning that exact lesson the hard way