So, you wanna be a rock star

Or is it "movie star" or "sports star" or "famous artist" (performance or production) of some sort? Don't be fooled by the hype. Consider, quietly and clearly, just how many people you know would love to be a famous (and of course sickeningly well paid) identity and multiply that by how many communities there are like yours in your town, country, the world. Yes, world. All the above are international jobs. How many stars actually are right at the top? How many people want to be there? How many have the connections you don't (i.e. those with famous relatives willing to help out family)? How many have the financial support you don't? How many have "good luck"?

Extras in movies, local bar bands, local team players do not make much money. Most people in the arts area who have made it will tell you the best training in the arts world is bar work. You'll likely make more money doing that.

Always have a dream destination. The caution is that the odds of success in such competitive industries, with so few highly paid participants, are very low. Be realistic.

So, back to the success at school (where "school" is any formalized structure of learning) notion (not the easier "fail" path). Vomit? Sux? Nerdy? Wimpy? Oh, no. These people (successful at school) have the easier path to a dream lifestyle, whichever way you look at it. The idea of success at school is to have a good backup plan if plan A (being a fabulously wealthy and famous "____ star") does not quite happen. Qualified professionals, entrepreneurs and highly experienced people in most industries can be very well paid and live extraordinary lifestyles. And, there are hundreds of thousands more jobs like these. So plan B looks great too. Success, you will find, is a magnet for excitement and fun.

If you cover plan A and plan B as well as you can, surely your future has loads more potential fun.

How easy it is to fail at school

Too easy! Read the last post and look for even more reasons to fail than those offered there. Then do nothing about it.

It is easy to find blame in your school, the teachers, the courses on offer, your parents or friends or brothers or sisters or step mum or step dad or blah blah blah, part time work, amount of homework, discipline, being picked on by teachers, transport, Osama bin Laden or Obama or Islam or Christianity. Man the list is endless. It's easy to fail. There are just so many things and people to blame for it.

"I'm so tough I don't care if I fail. The world owes me because I breathe so I'll take my failure out on the world"

WIMP!! PUSSY!! Nobody really thinks failure is cool. If you go to school, get the most advantage you can out of it. Get over the blame thing and look to yourself. If you are at school, use the opportunity to line yourself up with a more secure future. Do something for yourself while you are there. Why go to school and be a waste of time, resources, space? Leave!

If you don't leave school or college, join us. Ignore the rubbish spouted by wimps too scared, too weak to do well. Join us here and we will help you out.

Failure sux

Nobody really likes to fail. But how often do we say 'who cares', 'school sux' or 'why should I give a toss?' But really, deep (or not so deep) down none of us likes to fail. Sometimes we find a glimmer of hope that makes the difference. That does not happen much. Nor often enough.

Does your teacher never explain, never tell you what's coming on the exam, not care, pick on you, come late, come unprepared, talk in a funny accent, forget what they said? Is your school rubbish with horrible worn out facilities, no help, old technology, lots of stupid rules, no good subjects to choose, god awful tasting food, ancient textbooks, broken toilets, no sports equipment? Are you overloaded with work, assignments, irrelevant tasks, stuff that won't help you get a job or get into College, boring non challenging work? Does the school and teachers not meet the same standards that they demand of you?

E. All the above? Sound like your situation?

Do lots of your buddies fail? Are any lucky enough to pass?
No wonder you can't do well at school. Your school is letting you down.

What is going wrong? How can we fix it?