<p>you didn’t?</p>
<p>You outwardly expressed to a few people you couldn’t see yourself in that field but you did more research and interviewed actual people and found out otherwise.</p>
<p>No. </p>
<p>And no one’s going to care to be honest. People change their minds about their major all the time. It’s nbd.</p>
<p>No, I’d be embarassed if my pants fell down.</p>
<p>No. If anyone asks, just say that after a bit of research I realized my initial assumptions about the field were wrong. Though I seriously doubt anyone will truly care.</p>
<p>Hell no…I’d be embarrassed if I sat around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.</p>
<p>Uh…he died.</p>
<p>Oh, you said “about,” I thought you said “to”!</p>
<p>To be fair, talking to Kurt Cobain makes almost about as much sense as what TINS actually said.</p>
<p>I’d be embarrassed to make a post like this.</p>
<p>I was referencing an email hoax that was supposedly written by Bill Gates (it is not): </p>
<p>Rule #1. Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teenager 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 #1.</p>
<p>Rule #2. The real world won’t care as much about your self-esteem 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 that it’s not fair. (See Rule No. 1)</p>
<p>Rule #3. Sorry, you won’t make $50,000 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.</p>
<p>Rule #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 is not going ask you how feel about it.</p>
<p>Rule #5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for 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.</p>
<p>Rule #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.</p>
<p>Rule #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.</p>
<p>Rule #8. Life is not divided into semesters, and you don’t get summers off. Nor 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.</p>
<p>Rule #9. 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 perky or as polite as Jennifer Aniston.</p>
<p>Rule #10. Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.</p>
<p>Rule #11. 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 kid. Maybe you should start now.</p>
<p>Number 5 is practically suicide for a young teen looking to build up their transcripts for college. Instead of participating in leadership activities or academic one, you’ll go and flip burgers, earn minimum wage and probably spend it on mindless crap.</p>
<p>Number 10: Nerds don’t end up in management. They usually end up in cubicle positions like programmers or engineers and work under someone who doesn’t know anything about programming or engineering. (Project Managers is what they’re called). There’s a reason that former IT guy went nuts and flew a plane into an IRS building.</p>
<p>Number 9 is absolutely spot on. Although there are a lot of people who actually don’t have to leave the coffee shop and don’t have to work at a job. I actually pity them.</p>
<p>Well this is off-topic but if there is one thing College-obsessed teens are missing it is real world job skills. The two years I worked at McDonalds were some of the most productive years of my life.</p>
<p>And no, volunteering, “leadership” activities, and academic extra-curriculars, even if you’re getting paid for them, are not real-world work experience. Working for a business, where results count and are measurable (and you can be fired) are very different from non-profit work and builds much needed maturity and job skills.</p>