Live Positive Way

Excerpt from Charles Sykes

Really interesting .........

On the rules of life for graduates.

Some have said this was from Bill Gates talk to high school graduates 

but probably he did not say this unless he quoted Sykes.

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 OR

college. 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 until 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 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