['Hardly wish'? She tilts her head at him.] Is that an assumption or something you know as fact? Have they ever told you that they did not wish to learn?

And I do not think it is quite so easy to put you out of a job. You did say, did you not, that it is a time consuming process? Learning does not end when one reaches a certain point. So will they not always be trying to catch up to your level even as you continually improve?