Nothing like mopping floors, doing oil changes, digging road beds and drainage ditches, unloading trucks, etc. to make you take college seriously.
And nothing like three years in the infantry to make you appreciate the ability to type .. and getting you a headquarters job.
I painted houses during my high school summers, and nothing could make me appreciate my current office internship more.
You'll had it easy, I was a cook in a girls' summer camp.
Many years ago,for the summer, I was an inspector in a greeting card company.
It was a long,flat roof,one floor building and there was no air conditioning.I was never so hot in my life.
I lasted the entire summer and never forgot it.
Everyone should have to do hard, menial labor for marginal pay to make them appreciate a really good job.