There are some industries out there which are so competitive in general that if you’re not competitive/ambitious/whatever, you don’t matter in that you’re easily replaceable. Maybe some people simply don’t care about that. However, if you’ve put X years in, it’s expected that you will maintain that competitive/ambitious/whatever edge until you either leave or die. There’s a whole generation :cough: who had that drummed into them, so this whole laissez-fair attitude is simply not acknowledged.
I have a bad case of this. Trust me, unless you want the unvarnished truth, don’t ask me to analyze anything to do with baking. I’ve seen baking blogs out there which shouldn’t exist because their information within is plain WRONG. I have to keep chanting to myself the whole “I’m a professional…this is for HOME bakers” thing or else I’ll lose my mind. BTW, it’s the reason why I seldom read baking, or any kind of food blog, nowadays.