Bill Gate's advice to Generation Y

[Colette]

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!

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.

[robracer]

So true Colette, we strike the apathy from these kids that come here for work experience...OMFG bunch of rEtArDs...well most of them
Did we not have a debate about this recently? any way after loooking it up, generation X was anyone born between born between 1964 and 1984.
So yes BRENDAN you are generation Y

[mick_dundee]

Now I wish smeone would give some accountability advice to the lawyers and crims out there.. seems every fucking man and their dog now has come from a broken home, was abused as a child, had a dog that didn't like other dogs, had a bed weeting prob as a kid etc etc and due to aall/any of these factors can't be held responsible for their actions, sorry occifer didn't mean to blow the blokes head off, ya see, my mum farted once when I was in the womb and the memory still haunts me...

Pissing me off honestly!

[Ratmick]

Alas is all an Urban Myth http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.asp

[Colette]

Regardless, it still makes some good points

[robracer]

Good on ya Mick ... spoil the fun

[brendanzxr]

Ok so if i'm generation Y , so you saying i'm retarted now? and i do clean, wash my own clothes, and help around the house , for mum and dad . repaying back all the thing's they have done for me .

[Ratmick]

Regardless, it still makes some good points

This is true, but it's not geeky enough for Bill Gates

Mick

[robracer]

Ok so if i'm generation Y , so you saying i'm retarted now? and i do clean, wash my own clothes, and help around the house , for mum and dad . repaying back all the thing's they have done for me .

read my post again dip shit I said MOST & yes you are generation Y..... you swore blind the other day you wern't
as for your domestication... well we wont go there because there is no need, funny you needed to bring it up

[fireyrob]

so you saying i'm retarted now?

Answer: .................................... ! Oh where can we start?

[robracer]

retarted

Answer: .................................... ! Oh where can we start?

Missed that one ......Like your work rob

[fireyrob]

so you saying i'm retarted now?

Answer: .................................... ! Oh where can we start?

Missed that one ......Like your work rob

Here's a couple:

Do fish f in water?
Does a One-Legged duck swim in circles?
Is Frank the slowest member of KSRC?

[Six Addict]

Is Frank the slowest member of KSRC?

man u need to get over your issues!!!!!!!

[fireyrob]

Probably true... But never will!

[brendanzxr]

No i'm not retarded , and about the other thing, i was only going by what collette said. and enough with being a smartass to me.