Advice from Bill Gates

[Laurel]

Taken from a speech he gave at some high school.

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. 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. 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 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.

 

[RisiaSkye]

Um, Laurel?

Now, this isn't really related, but I have a question.
Laurel, why aren't we sleeping?
I know we're in the same area, so it's gotta be late for you too.

 

[ShyGuy68]

RisiaSkye

I think one off Laurel's sayings are:

Sleep are for wimps!!

 

[Laurel]

Bingo, ShyGuy. Who needs sleep when you have caffeine?

 

[Mortto56]

"Hit the Nail on the Head"

Hi Laurel!

What was said on your post,by Good Old Billie,is infact very true.

Every day at work I see all these so-called go-getters.

Now don't get me wrong here,I'm as much for making money as the next guy,but I DO have my principles.
So many of them suck so much ass,that they don't even know who they are anymore.

And the general attitude of a lot of younger people sucks.

 

[BrainyBeauty]

This should be required reading for all kids in high school.

Heck- it should be required for lots of 'adults' too.

In fact, it ought to be one of those pledge thingies you read and sign (like not drinking and driving).

 

[teresafannin]

Good advice, no matter who it is from. One thing people need to remember when lamenting about the younger generation-who raised them to be selfish, lazy, unmotivated, etc? Just one more example of looking at the parents. Most spoiled brat kids didn't get there on their own & they weren't born that way, they were made that way. My parents wanted me to have it better than they did & I wanted my son to have it better than I did. However, the big difference is that my son learned to work for what he wanted & he knew how hard I worked for the both of us. It isn't the teachers who dumb down the classrooms, it is the parents who don't make their kids do the homework, who don't go to the parent teacher conferences, who feel that their child is always right & everone else is always wrong. Working in retail, I have found that the general attitude of half the people in my store sucks & age doesn't make a difference. Some of the younger ones have never been taught to work & some of the older ones are here to hold up a counter & get the employeed discount. One elderly woman thinks I am the queen bitch because I expect her to work when she is in the store & one of the yoing guys thinks I am also a bitch because I won't let his friends hang out with him. It is true that it takes all kinds.

 

[Ramlick]

Laurel,

excellent post.

You are quite sure that those are Bill Gates' words? I want to use that.

 

[forgetunome]

It is good advice...

I have read it before...but...it doesn't lose it's value. I don't know where Laurel got it but it had Bill Gates name attached to it when I read it too.

 

[insideShiraz]

Did that Monopoly/Grafting Nerd

Really say all That?...

He's about to light up his House on the Lake...

 

[RisiaSkye]

I like this too, but I'm not sure that it's Bill Gates.
Another version of this was sent to me via an Urban Legends ring. The other version had Steve Jobs' name attached.