An interesting outlook on life
You may or may not agree with this statement, but remember who said it. You may some day being working for someone like this.
In his book, Bill Gates talks about how feel-good, politically-correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this
concept set them up for failure in the real world.
- 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. She/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 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.