A wall goes up one brick at a time, and somebody always lays the last brick without seeing the first.

Big things get built across more hands than any one person can see. Whoever sets the final brick was not there for the first, and whoever dug the footing never watched the roof go on. Most work that matters gets handed off mid-job, which means credit rarely lands where the effort did. Knowing that takes some of the sting out of doing unglamorous work early.

Find one thing you are part of that started before you arrived: a team, a club, a family business. Learn who began it, then do your row well enough that whoever comes next has an easier time.