Probably not as rock bottom as many others here, but here goes. I did well in school for most of my life and did coding since a young age. Landed a job in a bi

Probably not as rock bottom as many others here, but here goes. I did well in school for most of my life and did coding since a young age. Landed a job in a big tech company (hardware) right after college, for like $50k base. Thought I was hot shit my entire life up until this point. After 2 years here, a friend of mine who got into the company with me at the same time landed a software job in SF Bay Area for something like a 60% pay increase. I thought hey I should be able to do the same. Other factors were in play too but long story short I quit my job before landing a next one. Months went by and I couldn't land a job. Thought about applying to retail jobs but didn't pull the trigger. In the mean time, I got into a car accident totalling my car. I wasn't seriously injured, but the car was one of the only things I had, and I was also effectively home-bound and much harder to get to interviews then. Then, my parents got divorced because of some of my actions during this time (years of build-up too of course, but I triggered the decision of it). Finally after a few months I landed a job doing web dev at a friend's agency, but at very little pay (sub-$30k pay), since the agency itself was struggling too. I was only hired because my friend insisted, as he really wanted to help me out. Things were slightly better then. But soon after that, the girl I was seeing at the time (not officially in relationship, or even dating regularly really) died in a car accident. At this point I did buy another car (a cheap one I could afford, with minimal down payment and a loan). A few months later though, I would get into a different car accident (minor one). It was my fault, and minor enough that calling it in the car insurance was a bad idea and it was better to just pay cash to the other party to settle it. At this point in time my bank account was down to 3 digits, probably $600~700. And I was supposed to pay this guy $1500 in 2 or 3 weeks. (I don't think I'm a bad driver, in fact, in the 15+ years I've been driving, these were just about the only accidents I had.) This was when it was obvious I couldn't continue working in the web dev agency with my friend. Fortunately this time I now had a year of actual professional web dev experience on my belt, not just some unrelated hardware experience. I landed a job quickly and this was the beginning of the comeback. Long story short, the company I joined happened to become one of the hypergrowth unicorns. The comeback part of this is less interesting than the rock bottom part. A few years of hard work in, and I'm now a millionaire. Got married to a great partner. Things are going well.