I used to think that way. The frustrating thing is, I used to LOVE work of all kind. What I hated was people with arbitrary power over me deliberately sabotaging my work, mostly (it seemed) because they were angry that I enjoyed it so much. One of the most powerful lessons I ever learned was that people at my socioeconomic level don't GET to "enjoy" their work. Even by accident.

I never really learned diplomacy and power politics, primarily due to being taught a form of "learned helplessness" about it when I was very young (I was not in a socioeconomic class where it was appropriate to display the amount of enthusiasm, talent and intelligence that I had, and I didn't know how to hide it).

Unfortunately, this led to making a lot of really, really bad political mistakes, each of which slowly eroded my enthusiasm at doing... well, at this point, at doing anything.

After a few years of being out of practice, I now find that I can't even bring myself to get out of bed in the morning and work on something interesting, because "what's the point?"

To me, there is NO difference between "lazy" and "haven't found situations that put you in a position to succeed". They are IDENTICAL. If society doesn't put you in positions to succeed, it has decided that you are lazy, and that means you ARE lazy. Agency has nothing to do with culpability, only blame.