Rules For Life

A quick introduction.  My name is H2Daddy.  No the H2 does not stand for Halo 2.  My two sons names start with an H.  I know, kinda gay but it was the best I could do at the time.  Anyways, I am a 39 year old (will be 40 in 2 weeks) father of 2 little boys.  I am also a high schoo teacher.  I teach Marketing in a small high school in upper east Tennessee.  I wanted to start my blogging career with a set of rules I hand out to my students every semester.  I honestly feel that education is being dumbed down.  No Child Left Behind, don't get me started.  So anyways, here is my rules.

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 the real world HAS NOT.  In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they will give you as many times as you want to get the right answer.  This does not 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 will end up working for one.