Rules of Life
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 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, 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.
From Diane
