Bad Work Ethic  Why Your Boss Thinks You're Lazy And How To
Change His Mind  Page 2 of 2 Admittedly, it’s short-sightedness
on our part, brought on by years of indulgent instant
gratification. Younger workers don’t always understand the
nuances of being good at a job versus task competency. If we
learn how to do something, it doesn’t make sense to us to then
be asked to do that same thing for the next five years. We
think, "Great, I can do this now, please give me something more
challenging and move me up a level." (That’s how school worked,
after all). That’s why that kid left to start his photography
company, and why there are millions of us scraping by with
freelance work and part-time gigs. Some of us are willing to
give up the things that are important to you (prestige,
security, a high income) if we can feel like we’re in charge of
our own destinies, the way we were always promised we would be. 
It’s also the result of how corporate system values stay the
same because “that’s how they've always been,”