The corporate world is obsessed with "soft skills." They call them that because they’re hard to mea sure, but let’s call them what they actually are: battle-tested survival traits.

When you work in food service or retail, you are triaging bedtime for a toddler, grocery runs, and a 40-hour work week: except your "bedtime" is the shift change and your "grocery run" is the inventory count. You are learning resilience, problem-solving, and communication in the fog of war.

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