Thanks. But I don't mean it as a horn tooting. In many many pivotal moments it came down to dumb luck that things worked out. There are many many people who have it harder than I ever did and manage to make it. A couple wrong choices one way or the other and we wouldn't have made it.

Those that tried and didn't, shouldn't be looked down upon.

Crawling up from a poor rural kid to working professional with a degree (or two or three) is hard. I'm the fourth person in my family to ever attend college, the third to graduate with an undergrad and the first with a graduate degree. I was helped by many uncountable people along the way.