While working any of these jobs will teach and grow you a lot, I would argue that most of them deal with entirely man-made preventable problems. A kitchen bein

While working any of these jobs will teach and grow you a lot, I would argue that most of them deal with entirely man-made preventable problems. A kitchen being too tight and too hot is not a law of nature. It could be built with more space and better ventilation. Sure that costs more, but why are we accepting shitty work conditions just to save a buck? The shifts being 10 hours 7 days a week is not a law of nature. Hire 2 people instead with proper shift scheduling. Oh that's more expensive? Well, that's what it actually costs. It's just that your 7x10 hour chef stomachs that extra cost right now, driving them into drugs and alcohol, see the original article we're discussing here. And similar arguments can be drawn for the other examples. Accountant in the middle of tax season? Start preparing taxes earlier. Nothing accounting does is sudden and unexpected. It's accumulated over a whole year. It's the accountant's (or client's) fault if that suddenly all needs to be taken care of last second. Engineer fixing a production issue for millions of users? Get designs and routines in place that let you sleep well at night, with redundancy, automation, testing. A soldier on the front lines? Prevent wars from breaking out in the first place. A class full of rowdy kids at school? Terrible school system, and society approves with "it is what it is", don't even get me started. With very few exceptions all those problems are home made. It teaches good lessons to experience them, but the main take away should be how to prevent them in the first place.