To ask what careers guidance/advice your parents gave you?

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What was good advice they gave you?

Absolutely none whatsoever (both degree-educated professionals with high managerial positions).
The only thing they rather passive/aggressively did was to "prevent" me from doing what I originally wanted to do and did not communicate things they had discussed with my headmistress (such as having a year off before university).
As a result I felt like leaving school was falling into a black hole. I had no idea what I was good at or even what I liked/enjoyed doing.

Leave school at 16 and be a secretary, I got the best O levels and ignored them, they weren’t pleased and were never interested in me after that

My dad in the early 80s
'you're so clever, you could be a PA one day.'
Me in arsey teen mode 'Why can't I be a MANAGER dad?'

I was given no support or guidance at all, hence why I have a job I despise that is utterly all consuming and is certainly not a career and I m a complete loser as an adult. I am determined not to do the same for my two, I want them to be happy and successful.

My parents supported my further education because to them education was a higher measure of achievement than money.
Their best advice as follows:

• Father: Stand up straight and stick your tits out (which meant be proud to be a woman, work on your terms without compromise)
• Mother: Question any rules - you can be sure there's always someone breaking them (which I've found to be true)

No specific careers advice but my mum
was very keen to impress on me the need to never be dependent on a man and to make certain I can support myself and my children.

It was based on her experience of my dad being atrocious after they separated. But it’s stood me in good stead given how rubbish I seem to be at picking decent partners.

None, beyond being made to do all academic subjects for O level (despite being good at drama and art), and then an absolute resolution that I must go to university.

No real sense or direction to any of it.