Why You Should Never Listen to Women's Advice

[JMoney172]

Hey Guys,

I've run into a bit of a career rut right now and everyone around me knows it. I have a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and I'm underemployed. I've got a few irons in the fire, and am going through the application/interview process for 2 other positions right now. One of which is a significant step up with lots of room for upward movement. In the mean time I'm going through the MBA application process at a couple of different upper-tier schools.

I'm talking to one of my female friends (yes...I have them) on the phone about this, and she is giving me "advice". I actually had to mute the microphone on my phone so that I could laugh out loud at some of the stuff she was saying. She was talking about how I need to join some "interdisciplinary request for proposals team". And build my experience in that direction. When she said that I just had to roll my eyes. She continued about how I needed to join some altruistic cause like Engineers Without Borders or something to get my juices flowing again.

Now don't get me wrong, I appreciate what organizations like that do, and I have some very good friends who work with EWB specifically. But it's not me. I don't believe in the cause, and I wouldn't toe the line just to put it on my resume. It IS about the principle for me (as it should be).

She then went on to talk about her experience (she works 2 days a week as a music therapist). And all I could think about was "you don't have your life together, how can you in good conscience give advice to anyone else?"

Now I know that I've just got a motivation problem, and I need to sort it out myself and give myself a good swift kick in the backside. But women don't understand that...they can't be self-reliant or self-sufficient. And the more I realize that the more self-sufficient I become and the more self-sufficient I want to become.

 

[Greasy Pig]

Yeah, we live in an age where women's sense of entitlement and empowerment has grown out of control, fed by modern media which insists on portraying men as brainless chumps who cannot function like a normal human being without a woman's sensible and steadying hand.
So now men have a situation where they are being bombarded by well meaning but completely irrelevant advice from women (often very much younger and with fvck all life experience) who have been conditioned to believe men need to be "saved" or helped through life.
Unfortunately, many men perpetuate this sense of female entitlement.

So as for you, OP. Fvck that! Get off your butt and go your own way. It's good you can laugh about this bullsht though.

 

[Boilermaker]

OP's headline is sexist and his reasoning is stupid.

You probably gave the same hollow conceited vibe to her on the phone and she proposed EWB for your smart-ass to get some humility.

IF you appreciate EWB, why do you roll your eyes when she becomes a friend and gives you a suggestion?

What does any of this have anyting to do with DJ'ism?

 

[backbreaker]

HONESTLY... it's not the worst idea i have ever heard. it will give you real live field experience and help build your portfolio /resume that much better.

if you can't get the job you want now, you could at least be building your resume.

laugh if you want but if you did that for a few years or what not you could probably pick your job afterwards. instead paying another 20 k for school when you are even underemployed now makes more sense? If you can't get a job now with a masters degree what makes you think more schooling is the issue?

in a rescission the first people who get tossed to the wayside are pepole with little to no field experience. it probably sucks for you breucse you spent 8 years in college but it is what it is, you need to get some real experience before you can get the job you want.

it's not that much different than my web development company. when we first started out i took some jobs for free just to show we could do them. it sucked then but 4 years later there aren't very many jobs that i want that i don't get beucase i took my lumps earlier and built the portfolio.