열한가지의 충고

열한가지의 충고 

 

Bill Gates

 

 

1. 인생이란 공평하지 못하다, 이런 건 수긍하고 지내라.  

 

2. 사회는 여러분의 자존심 따위엔 관심이 없다. 자네들의 자존심을 앞 세우기전 여러분이 그동안 하고 싶어 하던 일을 해 냄으로써 무언가를 보여줄 것을 기다리고 있다. 

  

3. 고등학교를 갓 나와 연봉이 바로 4만 불 급료가 되지 않는다. 또한 부사장도 카폰달린 차도 없을 것이다. 

 

4. 학교선생님이 까다롭다고 생각되지만 직장 상사 아래서 직장사리를 해 보기 전까지는 그런 말 못할 것이다.  

 

 

5. 햄버거 가게에서 일하는 것을 수치스럽게 생각하지 마라. 너희 할아버지 때는 그 일도 기회라고 생각하였다.   

 

6. 네가 일을 그르치는 건 부모 잘못이 아니다. 잘못에 푸념을 떨 것이 아니라 오히려 그들에게서 배울 점을 찾아라.    

 

 

7. 학교는 승자나 패자를 가리지 않으나 사회생활은 그렇지 않다. 어떤 학교에서는 낙제제도를 없애고, 아예 답을 찾을 때 까지 수많은 기회를 준다고 한다지만, 사회 현실은 이와는 전혀 다르다.    

 

 

8. 네가 태어나기 전까지는 너희 부모는 지금처럼 따분한 사람은 아니었었다. 자네들을 양육하고, 집안청소를 하고, 자식들 자랑하는 걸 들어 주다 보니 그리되었다.  

 

 

9. 인생은 학기처럼 구분도 없고, 여름 방학도 없으며, 너 자신을 위해 도와주는 이는 없으며, 네가 스스로 알아서 하여야 한다.  

 

10. TV는 현실이 아니다. 현실에서는 커피를 마셨으면 곧바로 일을 하러 가야 한다.       

 

11. 공부 밖에 할 줄 모르는 '바보' 에게 잘 보여라. 사회 나가서는 반대로 이 '바보' 밑에서 일하게 될지 모른다.  

 

11가지 인생 충고는 마이크로 소프트사 회장인 빌 게이츠가 캘리포니아에 있는 마운틴휘트니(Mt,Whitney)고등학교를 방문, 이제 곧 사회 문을 나서게 될 학생들에게 들려준 것이라고 합니다. 그런데 이 말은 빌게이츠가 처음 만들어낸 게 아니라, 우리아이들 바보 만들기 '(Dumbing down our kids 95년 출간)라는 책을 저술한 후버연구소 연구원인 찰스 사익스(Charles J Sykes)가 신문에 투고한 글에서 한 말이라고 합니다. 내용은, 실제 삶의 실상에 대해서는 아무것도 모르면서도 자기들이 잘났다고 생각하는 미국 아이들에게 따끔한 교육적 충고를 주는 글입니다. 뒷장에 Charls J Sykes 의 인생충고 14가지 원문을 보여드립니다.  

 

 

 

 

 

11 ADVICES

Bill Gates' Speech

to Mt. Whitney High School

 

 

1. Life is not fair - get used to it.

2. The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

3. You will NOT make $40,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss

5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping ~ they called it opportunity.

6. If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

7. 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.

8. 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.

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.

10. Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

11. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. 

 

 

 

14 ADVICES

Charles J Sykes 

 

 

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 that 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 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.   

 

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 interested 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.

You're welcome.