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 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 mess 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 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 doesn’t bear the

slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

RULE 9

Life is not divided up 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.

– Bill Gates