Me too, with all people, but specifically only the breathing ones. :P
Each generation goes through a phase where they need to weigh out what “vocal authoritative” people are saying.
Each generation later goes through a phase where they try to pass “what worked for them” off to the younger generation.
Sometimes, it rings true, some times is rings out of touch. Sometimes the advice is too suspect to trust but they don’t want to start an argument.
My father tried to tell me I needed to get in somewhere that had a nice pension plan because Funds where bullshit. Turns out funds are bullshit, but pension plans are dinosaurs now and often get raided even worse than fund sheets.
My own is find a good place to work with managers that listen, work hard, become dependable, work harder, become hard to replace, start climbing the ladder.
Either of these things should absolutely cause a blank processing stare on a 20-30 something, because neither are anywhere near universal,
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I call it the “dafaq” stare.