Bill Gates’ advice to school-leavers
Editor
As thousands of 18 year olds get ready for their gap year (after a hard summer flitting between villas in Majorca, the Algarve and St Tropez) parents funding the whole shebang could do worse than print off Bill Gates’ advice for their return.
The founder of Microsoft provides a healthy dose of realism to those used only to pre-Crunch largesse. Rule 5 of 11 gives you something of the flavour. ‘Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping — they called it opportunity.’
