I was a 2.0 student in high school, had no idea what I wanted to do. Went to community college for 6 long, depressing years, changing majors a couple times. I lost a lot of sleep over this until I finally settled on computer science. Transferred out to a state university to finish out the last 3 years of the degree, making it a total of 9 years in college. I received financial aid the entire time I was at the university. Graduated with 0 debt. Got ridiculously lucky landing a job out of college. It's not a great job, it's not a great company and I never mention them by name in conversation, the salary is just enough for now, but I don't have to worry about my bills anymore. Just kinda tripped and slipped my way through life.