My father has been giving me job advice ever since I was a teenager. It is his favorite--and only--topic of conversation.

But I work in academics, and my father doesn't understand the requirements of different sorts of jobs in my industry. But he thinks he has it all figured out. He keeps advising me about things to do, and most of his advice is unworkable.

Plus, my father is a doomsday sort of thinker. He always expects the worst and counsels worst-case scenario thinking. So when something in my career does go wrong, he isn't sympathetic, but he says, "I told you so!"

Does anyone else get bad advice from family members or from friends, who think they have good ideas?

Does anyone else have a family member who is a worst-case scenario thinker who always expects the worst to happen?