Your worst summer job will probably hand you your best stories. Be grateful for the material.

Bad experiences and good stories are not opposites; they are often the same event at different distances. A shift that was humiliating or endless while it happened turns into the thing you can tell for thirty years, and the details are vivid precisely because you hated them. None of that makes the job good. It makes it useful.

Write down three specifics from the worst of it while you still have them: the exact phrase the manager used, the smell, the thing that broke. You are also allowed to find it funny on the way home, which makes the next shift lighter.