Anonymous wrote:my guidance counselor told me that according to my likes and aptitude test, i should either be a structural steel worker or a gynecologist.

Don't leave us hanging---which one is your career?

A counselor at my school was berated by a parent for not giving her child appropriate advice. It turned out the kid lied to the counselor to play his divorced parents off one another. The parent was so harsh and the counselor had just been doing her job with emoathy. There often is another side to the story...

Make that "alienate" your cold.