Fairly well for me. I put all of my eggs in the photography basket in highschool. Decided by my Junior year, I wanted to be a professional photographer. I was already the staff photographer for a small town weekly newspaper in my sophmore year of highschool (my first year of photography). The week I graduated highschool, I was a freelance photographer for a large daily newspaper. "I didn't need college" i thought...i'm already a professional photographer one week out of highschool. My path is set...i'm golden.

After about a year and making about $10-12K, and terribly bored with photography (as a young newby, i got crappy ass assignments that nobody else wanted)...i decided it was time to get a job.

I went to a temp agency...took a typing and computer literacy test, and got placed at a company taking customer orders over the phone for around $8 per hour.

I've been with the same company for 16 years now...been promoted numerous times (have never applied for any of the promotions I have received), and am making $70K+.

With that being said - I'm now 36, and am not terribly happy with what I do. While, I have a career, it still feels like just a job. I don't have any passion for it, and am quite bored with it. Spend way too much time on Reddit for the amount that I'm paid.

I seem to be well liked within the company though. With that being said, i feel kind of stuck. Don't really know where to go from here. Could move to be a marketing manager of sorts, but don't know if i want to do that. I could move to the sales force, but know I really don't want to do that. I could be an account manager, but don't think I know enough to do that. I'm on the list to replace the customer service manager if she quits or gets hit by a bus, but know I don't want to do that either.

So...while financially, I think i'm doing pretty damn good for somebody with zero college (excluding the fact that I'm married to somebody who is absolutely horrible financially and our finances is kind of fucked up)...I still feel kind of worthless and still have no idea what I want to do when I "grow up"...even though I'm pretty close to 40.

My wife is kind of in same boat. Didn't go to college...has had good jobs. Is now a project manager (but underpaid by about $20K a year). She went back to school and got her associates degree at University of Phoenix a few years ago....which is one of the reasons we're financially screwed right now. Its just a job to her...don't think its what she wants to do. She's a year older than me and doesn't seem terribly happy with what she does.