Category Archives: The art of doing without doing

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5 Jobs you don’t need to be very smart to perform.

There are plenty of jobs that don’t require many smarts, although some require some basic math. That’s the only bad news, since here at ‘Monday’ we don’t really cotton on to any learning of any kind. As long as you can add, subtract, multiply, and divide then everything should be cool.

  1. Cashier – These only take some basic math skills and rudimentary people skills. You just need to know how to make change and be polite.
  2. Sales – Sales just requires some guts. While you don’t need book smarts to be a salesperson, you may need some sort of intuition. You’re trying to get someone to buy something they may not need or even be interested in. This mostly comes from experience though rather than a lot of knowledge.
  3. Burger Flipper – Working at a fast food chain doesn’t require a lot of brain power. You just need to be fast and able to take orders and direction well. Most teenagers flip-burgers because you make money without a lot of mental power. Although sometimes it can be physical demanding.
  4. Pizza Deliverer – Make some money on tips while driving pizzas to people’s homes. You only need to be able to drive and a valid drivers license. What’s easier than giving pizza to someone and having them hand you money?
  5. Warehouse worker – You only need a little bit of coordination and some strength. Stocking shelves, working forklifts, nothing too mentally challenging. You can even end up making a decent living.

I only chose 5 but there are many more. How many other jobs can you think of that don’t require smarts, or a diploma, or a GED. Leave some comments to that fact.

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Successful Mooching or How to Live Off Of Someone’s Couch.

Living for free is an admirable skill, at least, here at ‘Monday’ it is. This is one of the articles where I’m going to advocate meeting friends, because the more friends you have the more you can live off them without wearing out your welcome. While we here at ‘Monday’ are really anti-social in nature one good benefit of having friends is mooching off of them. Others in no particular order are meeting more women, getting more gifts, being able to have fun with the guys maybe to the point of being lazy, and being more dependent on others so you can be less independent.

So how do we successfully mooch off of our friends. For one thing having a lot as said above means not spending too much time with any one friend, so you have less of a chance of getting kicked out and wearing out your welcome, maybe even hurting the chances of staying friends with them. We don’t want that, we want more friends so we can get more free stuff. More free lunches more help ala Tom Sawyer and so on.

Pitch in for small household chores. We don’t want them thinking we’re lazy even though we actually are. So do the little things like sweeping or vacuuming. Pretend to be ‘pulling your own weight’. Or actually be pulling your own weight because you can still live for free if you’re doing chores. Since your mooching, though, and not cleaning their house for a living, don’t try too hard.

If you’re trying to mooch off your girlfriend why not create a date payment rotation plan, and then when it’s your turn to pay, make it as low cost and cheap as possible, and then when it’s her turn suggest some expensive restaurant. Make sure the expensive date is something that she wants to do, that is she may not want to do it at the time you are mooching off of her, but try to pick up on restaurants and places she wants to go that are more expensive, that way when it’s her turn to pay she will feel like it’s her idea.

Conveniently forget your cash. Even if you actually have cash (which I do not recommend since if you have cash you won’t have an excuse not to pay) forget to go get it. This way the friend or girlfriend will end up footing your bill. A better solution is not to have a job and therefore never to have money.

Hopefully you now have some good ideas on how to mooch off your friends.

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5 ways to not study

Here at ‘Monday’ we think studying is a waste. You could be shooting hoops with your buddies, or making out with your girl at the drive-in (what few drive-in’s are left here in the US). Studying totally does not fit into our lifestyle. In that vain, I present to you 5 ways not to study.

  1. Don’t attend classes. If you’re not there to hear the lesson then you can’t understand the lesson as well. Being the lazy bums (or tramps if you prefer) we here at ‘Monday’ don’t like to attend anything. Attending classes might mean you’re not being very lazy. However an exception to this is attending classes to sleep through class, and that is acceptable around here.
  2. If you do happen to be in a class and aren’t sleeping, the least you can do is to not take any notes. Since you don’t always remember what was being said, not taking notes is the next best thing to sleeping in class, which is the next best thing to not showing up in class, which is the next best thing to not doing anything.
  3. Procrastinate! Well you won’t get any more description than that from me; you already know how we feel about the subject here at ‘Monday’. Just remember “I’ll do it later” and then later remember the same thing. Put it off, since the pain of actually doing it, is worse than not doing it.
  4. Study in a place with a lot of distractions. Well, I’m not saying you should study, but if you have to make sure there are a lot of distractions. Girls, music, loud noise, buddies, anything that distracts you from actually studying effectively. Eventually you’ll get nothing done and put away that book. In fact let’s have a party, which would pretty much include everything above.
  5. Trying to do many things at once. Try studying while eating breakfast. Or take lots of breaks to go get some water. Or maybe if you don’t like staying in one place for too long, you could read a little bit of your text book then get up and do some cleaning, then go to the kitchen to get something to eat. It takes a while to mentally switch tasks, so if you’re constantly task switching, then studying probably don’t take. When you fail at a test you can then say that you must have not learned anything because you did actually study.

I hope you learned ways to slow down your good study habits, by replacing it with these 5 bad ones.

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