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 $40,000 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 the teacher is tough, wait until you get
a boss.
He doesn't have tenure.
Rule 5 - If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't
whine
about your mistakes - learn from them.
Rule 6 - Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
grandparents
had a different word for burger-flipping;
they called it
"opportunity."
Rule 7 - Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as
they
are now. They got that way from paying your
bills, washing
your clothes, and listening to you talk
about how cool you are.
Thus, 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 and 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 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.