My Boss shares the secret of rising to the Top

I have now wasted some good part of my valuable life (well no one thinks so that my life is valuable, that includes me) in gathering some of the coveted degrees. I feel I deserve a better deal in terms of job content, well if there was any job to do. Having been eternally tired of cribbing about the job I felt if time to take matters into hand. I went to my boss and engaged him into a discussion about how wretched I feel in my present job and sick of not doing anything at all. He was a through gentleman and gave me a patient hearing. Then slowly whispered after making sure no one was paying attention to our conversation, " Hey why crib about not doing anything. This is a great organization. People in this organization have made career by not doing anything. You are one of the very few chosen ones (well I didn't feel so as there were many like me floating around in the campus). You have been chosen to follow the path of great leaders in this organization who has risen to the top by observing things around.