seems it’s not just my grandmother

This afternoon I stopped by a professor’s office to pick up a final and ended up chatting with him about my ongoing search for a job. It was comforting to get a very enthusiastic “I don’t blame you!” in response to my expressing disinterest in design work, but much more noteworthy (and most amusing), was his suggesting, in all seriousness, that I should find myself a “well-off partner.” (This was after my foolishly and inadvertently leading him to believe that I lack any ambition by saying things like “I don’t want to work hard,” “I don’t really care to make lots of money,” “I'm not sure what I want to do,” etc. Guess I won’t be getting a recommendation from him any time soon...)