IJMC - Bill Gates' Advice

Ok, enough election stuff...at least for a day or two. Now I do not know
if Bill Gates actually said this, but I agree with the majority of it. You
know, I agree with more than 50% of it...anyway. I got like 4 minutes to
get this blurb out. I am really digging this little Internet cafe I found
here in Madrid. Great place. Cheap, ok coffee, and good systems with fast
connections. Me happy...but my bought time is almost out. Gotta go!  -dave





Bill Gates' Advice ------------------ Here's some advice Bill Gates recently
dished out at a high school speech about 11 things they did not learn in
school.

He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teaching has created a
full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept sets
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 40 thousand dollars 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 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.