Full-time work takes more of your waking hours than almost anything else. Choose the people there as carefully as the pay.

A job fills more of your conscious life than your hobbies, your friends, and often your family. Who you stand next to all day therefore shapes your mood more than the number on the check does. A good wage in a poisonous room gets expensive in ways that never show up in the bank.

When you take a shift or a summer job, watch how the people there treat each other. That is reliable information about what your days are going to feel like.