| Rule
1: |
Life
is not fair; get used to it. |
| Rule
2: |
The
world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you
to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. |
| Rule
3: |
You
will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year, right out of high school.
You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both. |
| Rule
4: |
If
you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He
doesn't have tenure. |
| Rule
5: |
Flipping
burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a
different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity. |
| Rule
6: |
If
you screw up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about
your mistakes. Learn from them. |
| Rule
7: |
Before
you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now.
They got that way from paying your
bills, cleaning your clothes, and listening to you talk about how
cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the
blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing
the closet in your own room. |
| Rule
8: |
Your
school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not.
In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you
as many times as you want to get the right answer.
This, of course, doesn't bear the
slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. |
| Rule
9: |
Life
is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very
few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that
on your own time. |
| Rule
10: |
Television
is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the
coffee shop and go to jobs. |
| Rule
11: |
Be
nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. |
