I'll start to take notice when they do a GS-F. That is the segment that needs to wake up.

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I think it may have something to do with the fact that we don't bring any mental "baggage". At our first job, there are pretty few pre-conceived notions about what is "good" or "bad".

I am more of a systems person, but it is the same situation for myself -- I remember fondly my first job, and the level of learning (not only technical, but also social and political) required to become part of the working world.

I think that later in life we start to develop (hopefully educated) opinions about how things should or should not be done and that colors our outlook. What, in the past would have been soaked-up like a sponge is not put through the selective filtering that our own experience gives us.

I think that it becomes a trade-off between a kind of unfettered joy in finally getting paid to do work, and the responsibility and realizations that our experiences drive us towards -- we get to do more and better things with more responsibility, but with the load of that same responsibility squarely now on our shoulders.