Message to teenagers

[Mekk]

Now you need something for street kids that skip school and don't listen to their parents, let alone a boss.

Personal responsibility unfortunately seems to be optional now. I blame the Americans, and the British. And the war on Iraq, and minimum wage, and cops and parliament and the oppressive authorititave figures in society and....

[Kiwifire72]

Fuck that's depressing. If somebody had put all that to me while I was still in high school I probably would've given up and gone on the dole straight away.

Lol Join the Fire Service
I here at home getting paid to talk with you guys
admitidly am off on sick leave after Heart Bypass'
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.


but could do with a a latte lol

[Sniper]

Sniper is pretty slow today.

Got things on my mind at the mo. Besides, Im not up at 4am lately

[Grub]

This kind of tickled my fancy

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings have created a 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 $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.

[TOTO]

yea, makes sence.

[Jez]

i like rule 11 ... reminds me of a saying myself and a few friends heard somewhere many moons ago:

"The geek shall inherit the Earth"

[Sanx]

Ahhh, the lessons learned at the University of Hard Knocks.

As taught by the child of pretty wealthy parents (father a top lawyer in Seattle, mother on the board of various bodies, and maternal grandfather a president of a bank) who went to exclusive prep schools and whose father supplied the start-up capital needed to form Microsoft and ongoing capital when needed for the first few years.

Don't get me wrong; Gates is unusually intelligent and possesses amazing business acumen (and some dubious morals) but a hard life he did not have.

[Tonka]

Ahhh, the lessons learned at the University of Hard Knocks.

As taught by the child of pretty wealthy parents (father a top lawyer in Seattle, mother on the board of various bodies, and maternal grandfather a president of a bank) who went to exclusive prep schools and whose father supplied the start-up capital needed to form Microsoft and ongoing capital when needed for the first few years.

Don't get me wrong; Gates is unusually intelligent and possesses amazing business acumen (and some dubious morals) but a hard life he did not have.

Yeah thats true Sanx (BTW how are you bro?) but I have to admit that Gates list of rules are spot on. The softly-softly PC approach that has pretty much screwed our school system has done nothing to prepare this generation of schoolies of what the real world is like. Only those with a willingness to succeed and further themselves will go on but many will continue to expect 'handouts".

[awayatc]

Rule 12: In real life you can't just make patches all the time to try to cover your fuck ups....

[Subike]

Soft touch brigade spoiling our kids.
Dont forget that these are are future govenment leaders, policemen, and manages......omfg.... Im glad I will be dead by that time.

Wingers, moaners, lazy, selfish, greedy, and expect everything to be done for them. Thats the what a modern school lever is. Having one in my house for 2 months was long enough for me to want to wring its neck. Bates is correct in his 11 points, pity the PC wankers dont believe it.

[awayatc]

And who brought up the present government leaders then who created all this PC bullshit.....?

[James Deuce]

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.asp

Always consult Snopes before posting Urban Legends.

[Wingnut]

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.asp

Always consult Snopes before posting Urban Legends.

Its irrelevant who wrote it. Many valid points there for sure.

Some of the next generation need a real wake up call.

[Zuki Bandit]

That advice is much better than the old speech of "back in my day when we had to walk 10 km to school in the snow with no shoes on"!

[James Deuce]

Its irrelevant who wrote it. Many valid points there for sure.

Some of the next generation need a real wake up call.

It isn't irrelevant who wrote it at all. Context is everything. Bill Gates has a great deal of "stuff" attributed to him that just isn't anything that he would write or do.

By the way, just so this is straight. The attitude of children (and teenagers are still children irrespective of how they may regard themselves) is entirely the result of their interactions with their parents, teachers, and other role models. The "next" generation is a product of the previous, though there have been a number of societal changes where a variety of agencies have attempted to isolate children from their parents and whanau. From personal experience, those types of things are rather easy to circumvent, provided you aren't a sheep and "accept" that "experts" know better than you do. Nine times out of ten the "experts" have taken an isolated event out of context and used to it demonstrate some sort of Giant Fail that doesn't exist. A 90% success rate is a lot better than the "experts" 10% success rate in my book.

This would also be about the 3,120,567th repost of that particular set of comments, but then I have been told 1,000,000 times not to exaggerate.