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 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 thought you were. 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 helpin g 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.

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If not, delete it.

If you can read this - Thank a teacher!

Very well said, Kojack!!!

LOVE IT!!!


I tell my kids the teacher/boss statement often. It's a rude awakening for sure eh?

One of my fav statements: Life is hard. Buy a helmet.

tell it tell it....

Problems with your children? These are very well known facts, just trying to understand why you would post them?
I don't think there are any 18 years old or younger on here; Although, some of us may act like it.

Yeah, the not having the summers off thing is still a disappointment.

Nope have none of my own yet, but glad you relaized some act like babies on here

Scott...

This was GREAT, I never read this before, thanks for sharing it!!!

You can tell this was written awhile ago and that times have changed though:

Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!

...Or file a lawsuit.

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.

Oh please. Front-page news stories about people getting their feelings hurt pop up all the time. Look at the women who get turned down for waitress positions at Hooters.

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.

But if you get an athletic scholarship, you can be as dumb as a box of rocks and still be making MILLIONS and own a fleet of cars for making a science out of throwing a ball.

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

'Course, if you're an illegal immigrant, the government'll practically hand you a living on a siver platter.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

You can be arrested 20 times for DUI and still have a license. 'Nuff said.

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.

Unless you're a "professional" athlete, that is.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Survivor...people are making a living off TV all the time

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

Show of hands: Who here works for someone who knows what they're doing?



Not trying to crash the party, just saying it seems like lazy uneducated useless people can do just as well if not better than someone who actually puts hard work and effort into what they do. Watch the movie "Office Space", sure it's just a movie but I know anyone who's seen it can testify to how accurately it portrays real life.

I'm just thinking of the star football player who graduated high school ahead of me in our class, Ben Heckel. For his graduation, his parents (who are the owners of a tool & die shop & have money coming out their ears) bought him a brand new Ford Explorer with all the bells & whistles. A few weeks later it's in the local body shop after he washed it with a Scotch-Brite pad because it was "really dirty" Yup, according to our GPAs he's smarter than I am, and rest assured that athletic scholarship means he won't pay a dime to get rocketed in and out of college with a PhD in touchdown passes living high on the hog for the rest of his life