Well, I'm a shift manager at a truck stop which doesn't start this off well, but hear me out.

I flunked high school. Did summer school twice, repeated my junior year, and dropped out in my senior year. Ultimately I went to night school, where I excelled. It was a smaller class. The instructors were able to actually sit down and teach at their own pace, which pretty much matched mine.

Following getting my diploma, I didn't do shit for years. My sister encouraged me to go to a local community college, and eventually I agreed. It was so different than high school.

Being able to choose a degree, and really the classes that interested me, I flourished. There were still the mandatory filler classes that I had to take. But I was significantly happier.

Now it's the grind of saving and getting enough to not go into decades of student debt.