As an instructional designer my whole purpose is to train someone to accept a change in how they do their work. Most people are static in how they do things as they have developed processes and routines that encompass what they are currently doing. My job is to get them over that resistance and begin trying something different. It would be shocking to most that I find the younger the person I am training sometimes the harder it is to get them to change.
The door above is famous to the Hicks family. Grandpa and Grandma received everyone at the back door to the house and only salesman or polite neighbors came to the front. Upon entry you found yourself in a warm and inviting kitchen. Grandma was often in here cooking away and despite her complaint that she was tired of cooking I found it hard to believe that she would have stayed away from this kitchen for very long.
Her kitchen was not designer built, it didn't have marble or tile counters, the table was used but protected and the lighting should have been redone at some point. As children, we loved this entry. Running up the stairs to get a coconut macaroon cookie or diving into the funky tin candy jar for a sour ball. We would enjoy coming in and saying hello and maybe getting a crop report or an update on the coming weather.
As young adults we all moved on from home, getting jobs, moving to different cities and sometimes staying right in the same area but finding that time prevented us from getting back as much as we wished. In 2010 that all changed with the passing of our grandparents. Our routines, expectations and processes underwent a massive upheaval that the family is still dealing with three years later. (I walked out of this door in 2011 for the final time before its demolition to make room for a new house.)
The point I try to make to those entering the field is that they have to believe that things change. They must be ready for someone to tell them the school they were hired at may not be the school they work for. Their expectations to be the "cool" teacher in the English Department may not happen. A computer that should work exactly like their new one at home may not work the same.
In the end I have had to resort to something that I heard a lot growing up. "You have to do it this way, because I said so." Am I trying to be a jerk? No, it is just time that some Generation Y members realize a hard truth taught to me as I left that door for the last time. Things change and you can accept it or be left behind as obsolete.