It sounds to me like the general consensus here is yes, you are being lazy, but it sounds like you may have been on to that already.
I'm a little curious why you are 28 and still in school? Are you going for post graduate work? Is the apprenticeship to be in addition to an engineering degree? If that's the case, then no, you aren't being lazy at all. You may someday be drawing plans that the rest of us have been dreaming of.
