I can give you two examples A family member spent years at college and university studying for an aerospace B2 engineering degree. He failed the final module,

I can give you two examples A family member spent years at college and university studying for an aerospace B2 engineering degree. He failed the final module, failed his degree and was left with £40,000 student debt. Most people would have given up at this point but not him. He worked at McD's, local refuse collection sites and signed on at a job adviser and took any job that was offered. In the meantime he went back to college to study other things, all the while pestering large airline companies for a job. he was finally offered an apprenticeship at British airways. How did he do this? Perseverance and minerals? I left school with no qualifications in 1974. I played truant for the last 2 years of school. At 16 I got a job at a local garage cleaning the mechanics tools, sweeping up, making tea and being a general gofer (go for this and go for that). One day the general manager asked me if I would like to train as a car mechanic. He said he would teach me everything he knew about cars. Lucky for me he was an F1 mechanic so I had a great teacher. I then applied for an apprenticeship at Jaguar/Daimler. Low and behold I only got it. I became a vehicle technician I had always been interested in Psychology even when I was a teenager. Although I had no formal education I did love reading books. It does help being an introvert. So, when I was 33 years old I went back to college to do an access to higher education in psychology to give me the most basic qualifications to prepare myself for university. Six or so years later I had a masters degree in Integrative Psychotherapy. From an oily rag to a psychotherapist. How did I do that? Perseverance, minerals and believing in me. Minerals = from the film "Snatch" If an uneducated, lower socio-economic, working class guy like me, can traverse all the barriers in life to achieve what I wanted, then anyone can do it.