I've worked hourly my entire life in different scrappy kind of roles, settled on trucking where I now make 100k working 70 hours weeks. I have a geology degree but was never able to successfully translate it into a career. I have an anxiety disorder and was always just invisible around other louder more confident people.
I'm not blaming anyone except myself but I wonder how many others feel their life and career never really “started” at all, and their life story will be working invisible thankless jobs and then dying without leaving any type of trace. It makes me feel so envious hearing people taking about their salary and corporate jobs or working from home. My brother and father are both salaried helicopter pilots and people basically get down on their knees and suck them off when they hear about what they do for a job and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous. Some are winners some are losers I guess.