This is of course great as long as you can find enough "challenging" work to perform, but any successful project is going to involve a whole lot of seemingly "b

This is of course great as long as you can find enough "challenging" work to perform, but any successful project is going to involve a whole lot of seemingly "boring" work. A big part of true maturity and professionalism is being able to find the interesting challenge even in these more run-of-the-mill tasks and successfully engage with them. (Mind you, I'm not talking about a matter of inborn temperament or character, much less a moral flaw! Rather, finding the compelling challenge even in "boring" tasks is a valuable skill and situational tactic that anyone should explicitly learn about and aim to acquire as part of becoming a mature professional, not a matter of morality or somehow being dismissed as "lazy"!)