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=10 RULES YOU WON'T LEARN IN SCHOOL!=

RULE #1 Life is not fair. Get used to it! The average teen uses the phrase “It’s not fair!” 86 times a day.

RULE #2 The real world will not care as much about your self-esteem as your school does. This may come as a shock but the real world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

RULE #3 Sorry, you won’t make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a secretary and an expense account either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn’t have a designer label.

RULE #4 If you think your teacher is tough, wait until 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. This is the flip side of, “It’s my life.” or “You’re not my boss.”

RULE #7 Before you were born, your parents weren't boring. 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 you’re given as MANY TIMES as you want to get the answer right. This, of course, does not bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life - as you will discover.

RULE #9 Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get a new life every 10 weeks. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. You are expected to show up every day for 8 hours, and sometimes at night or on weekends too.

RULE #10 Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to their jobs.