To those kids born much later than the other thread...
 

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To
anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice.
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a high school about 11 things
they
did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good,
politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no
concept
of
reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
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 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 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.
If you agree, pass it on.
If you can read this - Thank a teacher!
If you are reading it in English -Thank a soldier!

I just found it simply amusing that there is another thread for the younger ones this time. :D

"You will not earn $60,000 a year right out of high school"

+"Because I already did that!"


*slaps him*

You are the exception. Good job!

Reality sucks. Thanks Subman, that's a good one.

This is too late for my 39 year old son, but it's just in time for my 16 year old grandson ...
Who I have beaten on Generals Zero Hour in lan mode, both at the same time against little ole me.

Now I will have to insert it into a game for his birthday ... lol

It defnitely can at times, and I think you have had more a dose of reality than a lot of us. How you doing these days?

-S

If Bill Gates really said that, then he has gone up a notch in my book.:up:

He just about nailed the problems with our schools. I friggin hate politically correctness!

Surviving.

I still don't have a place of my own, but things are moving along.

As long as you have a place to stay, that is all that matters.

Thinking back though, all my life I never had a place I would call my own and only my own. I always rented rooms from friends so that I could save money for things I really wanted (Maybe I am materialistic at times, but oh well - I had a thing for cool gadgets that outweigh'd the need for having my own place back then). I couldn't stand paying for a place all to myself at the expense of the next coolest thing.

Then you get married, and you think you are getting your own place until you figure out you still have to share with your wife! :p I do have one rule - she can decorate how she wants, get whatever she wants furniture wise, anything - just don't even think of touching my speakers! If they weren't 200 lbs. ea though, she probably would throw them off the deck, but since they are, I'm pretty safe I think. :)

-S

I am kinda doubting that this is real....