Rules
for Life
11 RULES YOU DID NOT – OR WILL NOT LEARN IN SCHOOL
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 $60,000
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 until you get a boss.
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
thought you were. 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 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.
~ Charles J. Sykes
