Important ADVICE To High-School Graduates

Well, it's that time of year, so here's some critical advice to
newly-minted graduates, most of whom have lived on Easy Street for 18
years. This advice is also valid for those who've already finished
high school, but seem not to have learned some or all of these
lessons. Like some around here, for example.

OK, enough commentary. Now. listen up and pay attention.

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Charles J Sykes Rules for Life

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 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 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;
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.