Some people find out at a summer job that they love quiet, repetitive work. That’s not boring. It’s a fit.

Work gets ranked by how exciting it sounds, which tells you nothing about whether you can stand doing it every day. Some people settle into a rhythm and come out of a shift calm and clear. That is not a small ambition, it is a fact about the conditions you work well in.

For the next few shifts, note which tasks leave you steady and which leave you frayed. Do it on your phone at the end, two words each. Patterns you can see written down are much harder to argue yourself out of.