Plus, OP shouldn't expect that the tasks that they get are always well thought through. In school you get assignments where the teacher already knows that a cle

Plus, OP shouldn't expect that the tasks that they get are always well thought through. In school you get assignments where the teacher already knows that a clear solution exists. In the real world your supervisor might work on flawed assumptions when giving you a task. Also: The amount of effort needed for a task does not always correlate with the importance of the outcome. Sometimes big wins come easy and sometimes small wins are expensive.