Wow. I'm genuinely heartbroken for this woman I normally couldn't give two shits about. I mean:

A tribute to someone who died early and tragically because of drug use, given by a recovering alcoholic incorporating a message about the dangers of addiction into her memorial, does exactly the opposite of glorifying drug use.

How the fuck is it glorifying drug use?

What really got me was "I need to be strong for the kids that I did this for and people I did this for." She's so young! No teenager should have to feel that kind of pressure on top of everything else.

This really hit me for some reason. At least you aren't standing still. I graduated college in 2010 when there were no jobs. It took me 9 months to land one. It was a shitty job but it paid the bills. Then I got rheumatoid arthritis (at 21!!!). That knock me down hard. I was able to transition to working at…

Are you an occupational therapist by any chance?? That's how I feel about my OT degree. Jack of all trades, master of none. My advice is it is never too late to change. I'm in the processes now- I've worked 6 years in mental health come December (as an OT,or at let in in various incarnations of...) and decided I…

Gaack, I empathize. I am going through a transition now. As a young professional I took a promotion that moved me into the sales department - I was basically doing data entry before that so I had nothing to lose. Turns out I was pretty good at sales. Got promoted into management and all of a sudden I was running…

The best advice I ever got was to choose a goal, not a career/job. Pick something you love doing, and then be open to ways you can do it. For instance, I heard this from a woman who loved helping students learn - she realized fairly early on that this didn't have to automatically mean she would be a teacher, but…

No advice, but been there! I've been in education for 6 years, and I've known since day 1 that it wasn't "my thing", but here I am. Lack of options (I was a language major, so uhh, yeah no marketable skills here) and general complacency (regular paycheck, decent benefits) have kept me in the game. I don't despise…

Yeah, me. I went to law school because my parents expected me to and I had no better ideas. I did well and passes the bar but practicing was another story. I was in a bad situation office-wise but even after leaving I don't miss it. Luckily, I was able to find a job that uses my law degree. My husband has changed…

I spent an extra year in college and an additional $15k in tuition to get a journalism degree, and realized within a year of graduating that I would never get the job I wanted and that I had made a big mistake. It's disappointing to look back and wish you could start over and pursue something else. But then again it's…

It took me several years in industry to figure out that I am not cut out for my field's culture. Maybe instead of thinking about what you want to do, think about how you like to work, and find a job that allows that. Like, do you like to work with others or by your self? Do you like to lead or would you rather just…

I'm with you. If she's annoyed she was being given advice at all, that's understandable, but highlighting the word "nanny" says she was offended by her status more than anything and that's unpleasant and dismissive.

I'm with you. I'm usually a borderline P!nk fangirl (I don't really have the energy to be a true fangirl for anybody, tbh), but that tweet reads like "the help spoke out of turn," and it's gross.

Really, you're going to judge people hiring nannies to take care of their kids? Not everyone can stay at home with his/her kids or has a flexible enough work schedule to take their kids to a swim class on a work day. My nanny takes my kids to classes. It's her chosen profession, at which she is amazingly good, and…

Generally, I'm with you. But it was the emphasis on the word 'nanny' that really got me. As if she were incredulous that a mere nanny dared to offer words of wisdom or whatev.

I'd just have said that my daughter could no longer attend the concert.

Look, I think respect for your parents should be the default position, but I don't think it should be unconditional either. And this is not a woman it sounds like I would have a lot of respect for. Her daughter absolutely should not have lied and should not have been sleeping over at an older guy's house. But I can…

I'm cool with her selling the tickets. Personally I think that was a really light punishment and it should have been worse, and I say that as someone who regularly ran off like a trollop to a guy's house to dry hump and make out.

Idea: excellent