Academically, I'm fucked. I have one assignment due on Thursday worth 25%, a 35% assignment due the Friday before last, and another 35% due on the 10th, also I have exams coming up. An intelligent person would be studying right now. I have been throwing a small Styrofoam ball at the wall for the last half hour. Here are 5 reasons why I think doing work, and putting effort into things is a complete waste of time and energy.
5) Doing no work makes you feel smarter.
If you work hard and succeed in life you feel good about yourself. You can look at yourself and say “well I studied hard, and got a H1 for my efforts. Hard work pays off in the end.” However, what happens if you work hard and you fail? You feel like shit, you put in heaps of effort, and you end up looking like a complete retard. If you put in no effort you feel good anyway because you think to yourself “sure I failed, but if I had tried harder I could have done really well.” If you actually pass something you feel even better.
4) Uni is a complete waste of time anyway.
At the end of it all who will really look at what marks you get at uni. Just like no one cares anymore what enter scores anyone got, after uni no one is going to care what marks anyone gets. Hey if you scrape through Latrobe Uni you might end up becoming a deputy head of college. How you succeed in the real world is through social skills, and good looks, that means I am completely fucked whatever marks I get. Don't worry though anyone who is completely useless though can easily get a job with the Australian Public Service, if they are completely incompetent they might even get promoted.
3 Doing no work makes other people think your smarter.
When people look at someone who works hard and succeed they don't necessarily respect that person, they say “well that guy isn't smart, he just worked hard. He's just a fucking looser who has no friends, and no life.” If someone puts in effort and fails, or only does OK they assume they must be really stupid. If you put in no effort and fail, people don't think your stupid, they say “there's a smart kid who is just fucking around and wasting there potential.” If you do nothing and are lucky enough to do well people will think your a fucking genius. A mates brother dropped out of school in year 10, and now lives in a granny flat at the back of his parents house. He's 35, on the dole, overweight, and has no girlfriend. He says he's writing science fiction novels. He hasn't finished a sentence yet but everyone is sure that if he puts some work in he will be the next Isaac Asimov.
2 You probably have better things to do.
Throwing a Styrofoam ball at the wall for half an hour is far more fulfilling and fun than studying. I can think of any number of things I would rather be doing than working. Even writing this crap is more fun than writing about how one or two sociological perspectives which seek to provide explanations for how mass media functions.
1 You can always do it tomorrow
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