I recall during my first job, unable to understand why things functioned in a certain way, I asked my boss:
“How is it that some people have so much work and some hardly have any work?”
She said, “Good people pay a far higher price for being good, than bad people pay for being bad.”
That has stayed with me forever.
If you are good with your work, you will get more work. You will get more responsibilities. There is a lot more than will be expected from you.
And that is going to be hard.
Being good isn’t easy, however it’s worth striving for.
Because being the opposite isn’t worth it.