Apprentices sweep floors for months and learn the whole shop by watching where the dust goes.

The boring job at the edge of a place is also the best seat for watching how the place works. Sweeping puts you in every corner, at every hour, near every conversation, and you absorb the shape of the operation without anyone teaching you. People who think the low task is beneath them learn only that task.

Wherever you are currently at the bottom, pay attention to everything that is not your job. Who solves problems, what breaks, who people actually ask. In a year that map is worth more than the skill you were hired for.