The most important thing in life is having people skills because everyone needs them to get thru work. And you have to do a lot of sucking up and acting no matter if you take a white or blue collar job. The idea is to please everyone around you and be pleasant. That's my biggest regret and what has cost me a living. If I had people skills I would find a simple job that interested me where I did my own thing and could focus really well and I know I could have made it. I started out in college as a good student and ended with a 2.0 in my major (engineering). My mood and dissociative disorders really crushed me at a large University. Mental health treatment in college was non-existent. I tried to get help but it didn't work.