Off Topic: Whether you like Bill Gates or not

[Michael J. Schweppe]

I do not know if Gates actually authored these rules or not, but I
thought these were poignant and wanted to pass them on.

Mike

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Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a  high school
speech
about 11 things they did not learn in school. He talks  about how
feel-good;
politically correct teaching has created a full generation of kids
with no
concept of reality and how this concept sets 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. 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 parent's
 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.