1 . 社會充滿不公平現象。 你先不要想去改造它，只能先適應它。
(因為你管不了它) 。
2 . 世界不會在意你的自尊，人們看的只是你的成就。在你沒有成就以前，切勿過分強調自尊。 (因為你越強調自尊，越對你不利) 。
3 . 你只是中學畢業，通常不會成為 CEO，直到你把CEO職位拿到手為止。 (直到此時，人們才不會介意你只是中學畢業)。
4 . 當你陷入人為困境時，不要抱怨，你只能默默地吸取教訓。 (你要悄悄地振作起來，重新奮起)。
5 . 你要懂得：在沒有你之前，你的父母並不像現在這樣 "乏味" 。你應該想到，這是他們為了撫養你所付出的巨大代價。(你永遠要感恩和孝敬他們，才是硬道理 )。
6 . 在學校裡，你考第幾名已不是那麼重要，但進入社會卻不然。不管你去到哪裡，都要分等排名。 (社會、公司要排名次，是常見的事，要鼓起勇氣競爭才對 )。
7 . 學校裡有節假日，到公司打工則不然，你幾乎不能休息，很少能輕鬆地過節假日。 (否則你職業生涯中一起跑就落後了，甚至會讓你永遠落後 )。
8 . 在學校，老師會幫助你學習，到公司卻不會。 如果你認為學校的老師要求你很嚴格，那是你還沒有進入公司打工。 因為，如果公司對你不嚴厲，你就要失業了。 (你必須清醒地認識到：公司比學校更要嚴格要求自己 )。
9 . 人們都喜歡看電視劇，但你不要看，那並不是你的生活。只要在公司工作，你是無暇看電視劇的。 (奉勸你不要看，否則你走上看電視連續劇之路， 而且看得津津有味，那你將失去成功的資格 )。
10 . 永遠不要在背後批評別人，尤其不能批評你的老板無知、刻薄和無能。 (因為這樣的心態，會使你走上坎坷艱難的成長之路) 。
英文版
Some rules kids won't learn in school
Text By Charles J. Sykes
Printed in San Diego Union Tribune
September 19, 1996
Unfortunately, there are some things that children should be learning in school, but don't. Not all of them have to do with academics. As a modest back-to-school offering, here are some basic rules that may not have found their way into the standard curriculum.
Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase, "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.
Rule No. 2: The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain it's not fair. (See Rule No. 1)
Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Gap label.
Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's not going to ask you how you feel about it.
Rule No. 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grand-parents had a different word of burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.
Rule No. 6: It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a baby boomer.
Rule No. 7: Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.
Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4)
Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight hours. And you don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on. While we're at it, very few jobs are interesting in fostering your self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)
Rule No. 10: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs. Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.
Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.
Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.
Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.
Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now.
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