Good Advice

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Received via e-mail from our own Ed Luisa...

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• 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 think 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. T his
  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.