How To Survive In The Real World, Rule #3

Effort doesn't pay. Actually, it seldom pays.

Ever had the experience where you slog your ass off, day and night, night and day on a project/work/assignment? When you submit it to your superiors when the deadline arrives, your work never seems to receive better opinions than the one from your counterparts, who only rushed out the work haphazardly in the last 3 days?

Maybe we shouldn't be too superficial about what others think, and should be satisfied with our own effort, telling our conscience that we have already done our best, and that there is nothing more to be done.

Then again, sometimes it really stinks when you've put in more effort than your peers, but you are graded equally (or lower) than your peers.

The morale of the story? If you can't beat them, join them. Go on, relax all you can until the last few days before your deadline. Then look for "alternative" methods to get your job done, by hook or by crook.

You'd be amazed at the results.