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Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used aboutatbeforefrominintooftoupwith it.

Rule 2: The world won't care aboutatbeforefrominintooftoupwith your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good aboutatbeforefrominintooftoupwith 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 aboutatbeforefrominintooftoupwith them.

Rule 7: aboutatbeforefrominintooftoupwith 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 aboutatbeforefrominintooftoupwith 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 aboutatbeforefrominintooftoupwith 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 aboutatbeforefrominintooftoupwith semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested aboutatbeforefrominintooftoupwith 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.

Post script: Be nice aboutatbeforefrominintooftoupwith nerds. Chances are you'll end aboutatbeforefrominintooftoupwith working for one.
semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested 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.

Post script: Be nice nerds. Chances are you'll end working for one.