[andreasgonewild]

This thread was a truly depressing read. Someone is fed up with the bullshit and has the courage to speak their mind, and the best you can manage is throwing stones to protect your own miserable bubbles. Here's some constructive advice: Find something you love to do, then give it your best against any odds and ignore the stones that will inevitably be thrown; you will have to do it sooner or later anyway, or die regretting a wasted life. And forgive them, for they know not who they are.

[devotedtoneu]

One possibility is that everyone in this thread has been that 19 year old at one point or another, and they know where it leads.

Ultimately, there's a reason they pay you to work.

[andreasgonewild]

Keep telling yourself that; first impressions are vital, you go numb from forcing yourself to conform. I too was 19 years old back in the days, I'm 40 now and I'm more certain than ever that doing my own thing is the only way forward. In-between, I spent a long time playing your game; trying to talk others out of rocking my boat.

[devotedtoneu]

I would ask you to consider the dangers of trying to fit everyone into your existing narrative and the limiting effect it can have on your mental flexibility.

[andreasgonewild]

Very good, now go write that on the blackboard until you understand who is who in that sentence.