Hello, there.
I amazed an employer (and myself) with that last trick. I spent a week refining a basic "what/so what/now what" presentation about my shitty career path. There was nothing to say at first (dropped school, went to the abyss), but with easy training, you can turn any shit into gold with the right structural thinking (dropped school cause needed to experience real world...). Knowledge and structure resolves everything (even depression).
So, on my first job interview speech experimentation, I was nervously shaking, but I knew what to say, how to say and when to say it: saved my life. I even went as far as calibrating my body language (mostly my hands), so I couldn't afford to focus on my social anxiety. I was hired as soon as I walked out (and I thought I didn't even aced my speech).