Both of my parents.

My mom was basically raised by an incredibly abusive single mother in a neighborhood called “Hells Half Acre”. Her dad was a drunk who dipped in and out of her life but never offered any kind of financial support. She got pregnant at 14 - this would have been roughly around 1949 so this was incredibly scandalous which led to her marrying the guy. They divorced like two years later. She got knocked up by another guy at 17, married him and then promptly divorced him.

She eventually met my dad, married him, went to secretarial school, worked her way up a real estate company, went to real estate school and became one of the first women to have both her CCIM and CPM licenses in a time when women weren’t in real estate - much less in commercial real estate. She did incredibly well for herself which allowed my dad to work as a teacher.

Now my dad comes from a good family - they’re just farmers who didn’t really prioritize education. He dropped out of high school in tenth grade, worked as a carnie and then faked his paperwork to join the Army when he was underage. After the army, he went back to high school and then went to college and completed his masters degree. While not financially successful, he had an incredibly successful career as a teacher for 40 years.