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Monday, April 18, 2005

It's Monday.
Had a mistake to recorrect in my previous entry.
Anyway..maybe later.

Read this first.

Bill Gates' Eleven Rules.


Bill Gates' 11 Rules

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they
did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good,
politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no
concept of reality and how this concept set 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 $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 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.

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