I'd say it depends on how you were raised. If your parents taught you about responsibilities and manners, then you are hard at work with everything you do. Well, maybe not everything you do, but you do know what is right and what is wrong. You know that you can't call out sick for work when the weather is nice or something like that. I am 23 years old and I work 72 hours a week. Most of my friends that graduated from college are working within their field and are busting their butts to move up the work ladder. Now I know this is a rareity (sp?), but it can't been a total generation thing. Friends of mine from high school that never made it to college work their butts off as well. Kids still in high school will always act immatture....I think it's rare to see HS kids acting adult like. It's just that age where they don't want to listen to authority figures (come on...I know we were all like that at some point during our teenage years).
