# 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 $40,000 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 till 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 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 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.

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~mike/misc/gates.html

So true.... so depressing....

Oh well.

This is old, but funny.

Michael Jordan will make over $300,000/game: $10,000 a minute, assuming he averages about 30 minutes per game.

Assuming $40 million in endorsements next year,he'll be making $178,100 a day (working or not)!

Assuming he sleeps 7 hrs a night, he makes $52,000 every night.

If he goes to a movie, he'll pay $7.00, but he'll make $18,550.

He'll make $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.

If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000), it would take him a whole 12 hours.

If you were given a tenth of a penny for every dollar he made, you'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a year.

Next year, he'll make more than 2X as much as past presidents for all of their terms combined.

Amazing isn't it?

...

BUT:

JORDAN WILL HAVE TO SAVE 100% OF HIS INCOME FOR 270 YEARS TO HAVE A NET WORTH EQUIVALENT TO THAT OF BILL GATES.

^Crazy

Mad Manfred, good post. Very true, and I wish all teenagers would read and believe it.

Rykster....... that is just depressing.
lol

Lol, good point.

So true. I hate now how schools are trying to make like every student is equal and trying to turn it into a politically correct society. There are winner and losers, smart and slow, good and bad. They should all be reconised and be treated apporiately. The only thing that should be done is to encourage them more, not try to make it look like they're all equal