Life Guide

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11 rules you won't ever learn in school:

1. Life is not fair - get used to it! The average teenager uses the phrase "it's not fair" 8.6 times a day.

2. The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. (See Rule #1)

3. Sorry, you will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president until you earn it.

4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. When you screw up, he or she is not going to ask you how you feel about it.

5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger-flipping: they called it opportunity.

6. It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, it's your responsibility.

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 rainforest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try cleaning your room.

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.

9. Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. Very few employers are interested in fostering your self-expression or helping you FIND YOURSELF.

10. Television is NOT real life. Your life is not a sitcom. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to their jobs.

11. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.