Stocking shelves at night doesn’t define you. But what you notice and think about while doing it might.

A job title is a description of what you are paid for, not a description of you. The more revealing thing is what your mind does during the hours. One person works out a better way to arrange the aisle, one composes music, one counts down. None of those is better, and all of them teach you something.

For your next few shifts, pay attention to where your attention goes. If you keep solving the system, that is a clue. If you keep making things up, that is a different clue, and either beats the hourly rate.