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off topic - advice columns

arfie
arfie

are syndicated advice columns still a thing? anybody have any faves?


in high school (1968-dropout) i had journalistic ambitions to be a syndicated advice columnist. syndicated columnists were among the financial superstars in those days and many a writing teacher, etc., believed i had the writing talent to go the distance.


from my very first steps into formal psychotherapy (1972), i was "brutalized" for using advice-giving as a deflection tool. it was quite allot easier for me to give unsolicited advice than face the psycho snot knots of my life as a child prostitute. it took a while for me to see it, but i now believe those "abusers" were right. i STILL hate it when people i don't agree with turn out to be right.


i've come a long way since 1972 and now find myself wondering if that career option is still available in the brave new digital publishing world. not even i buy newspapers or magazines any more.


to offer some clues on how long i have been out of touch with that market. . .


my personal fave was, "miss manners." turns out she's still active.

arfie
arfie
it's not too awful surprising how often off-topic threads can be helpful in the main topic. life is an integrated packet, after all.

great ramble, by the way. out of you, it strikes me as a very good thing. may you find the confidence to set yourself free more often and ever more completely.
mtd
mtd
In this day and age of political correctness, I find myself sickened by what social norms have become. I guess if I was an advice columnist, I would urge people to be themselves, to stop worrying about what other people think, and to think for themselves. Of course I realize with that attitude, I wouldn’t be employed in said profession very long. Common sense has become extinct. I would not even think of holding such a position, my skin isn’t that thick. On the off topic of libraries, as a youngster growing up in rural WV, the bookmobile was the best thing ever. Whoever got that program up and running is my hero.
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