It is so very true, It was then and it is now. People look at rewards and think, why am I not getting that they factor in nothing else, particularly not their own work. i.e, benefits of ginger tea ripped off from a nutrition site
The advice on expectation is spot on! No one automatically deserves a thing. My early posts were much the same :OD
We've all been there, started off as poor little fishes swimming around helplessly.
I think newbies get a lot more support nowadays, and it's much easier for them to land on the whale lottery in their early days. That's great for motivation but becomes the expectation, followed by disappointment very soon....