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 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 oppertunity.
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 clothers, and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rainforest from 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 resemblence to anything in real life.
Rule 9
Life is not divided into semesters. You do not 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.