True dat. Probably the biggest disservice I did to my kids was not making them work the type of nasty arse jobs I did starting, like you, at age 14.
I was reading last night how the thing that is keeping the Chandler dude from Friends from going back to opioids is thinking about having to live the rest of his life with a colostomy bag. The thing that kept me in night school after working a full time job and a part time job was the thought of washing dishes, or flipping hamburgers, or tearing off shingles in 90 degree heat for the rest of my life.