Thank you Beast.
Thank you for sharing, and for helping FadedSpirit.FadedSpirit is well liked and admired by me, as well as by many others here.
It sounds like so many great accomplishments have been achieved! Congratulations on such wonderful academic achievements!!!
It sounds like the instructor is just plain giving bad advice. Or, just possibly, it is being interpreted more harshly than it is really intended to be taken? Maybe the instructor recognizes all the great potential in FadedSpirit, and just wants to make sure it all goes to good use? I only suggest this because we sometimes interpret things said to us in this way.
Otherwise, if the instructor is simply modeling poor behavior, we encourage you and FadedSpirit to put it aside, and continue conducting yourself in a manner in which you find productive and beneficial. Stay true to what you believe to be the correct way to behave. Searching for employment is indeed very difficult and stressful, but it can be worth it to wait for the right opportunity, and to get the opportunity in a way you can feel proud of. No matter what anyone else says.
~ Emma