Use the internet and educate yourself on terms like Variable Pay and the full meaning of how much money you will take home. Your passion may give you gratification but ultimately the money matters.
It's great that you have new ideas at work and keep them coming. For that they display the generational shift of the status quo. But while you may have the foresight, your seniors at work come with years of the benefit of their hindsight. Use that benefit wisely.
You may have the energy to work the hardest in a room. But excess of that will be counterproductive. Meditate to have those moments of silence.
Your dreams and ambitions are the guiding light for your success. But if you're working hard and gratification from work is consistent, trust the process. Nobody has all of it figured out and you don't have to be hard on yourself to figure it all out then and there as well.
If Gilian Anderson's character from the final season of Netflix's Sex Education must be an example, then an inter-generational camaraderie at work is rare. If you have that at your workplace, cherish it. If you don't, then well, keep the eye on the prize and hustle your way through it.