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 are. 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.
"Whatever you do, work at it WITH ALL YOUR HEART, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving." Colossians 3:23-24 #EmphMine
Some bonus employment Ideas that go along with Steve great ideas. Be awake cuz basically.. you got to bed not too late. Be there early. Work hard and smart submitting to those in authority..short of sin. Why?.. cuz people lackin' experience don't typically start out as boss. Have a heart to do more than asked to do. Work efficiently, but not so many hours that you hurt those you love. Work as unto the Lord for His glory.. yup, with the Lord leading. Sure, it's a good witness, believer.
- Deuteronomy 15:10.
- Deuteronomy 24:14.
- Psalm 90:17.
- Psalm 128:2.
- Proverbs 12:11.
- Proverbs 14:23.
- Proverbs 18:9.
- Ecclesiastes 3:22.
