I gave up on college the first time around, when I didn't get accepted to graduate school (because of my inadequate social skills). I've been underemployed, and I've been fired from jobs (kind-of - it was technically mutual decision that it wasn't working out). I have had depression my whole life, as well as social anxiety and various personality disorders. I was failing at being a homemaker too, and depression got worse, and I literally wanted to die. That became my turning point. I realized that I was not where I needed to be in life, and went back to school, and work. I don't have it all figured out yet, but I have a good job and I'm in graduate school, and I have my family too. I'm on my way, I guess. Still hoping that it will all work out, but there really is no reason that it shouldn't. As an undergraduate, I was asked to withdraw from an honors program because my grades were falling. Now I have a 3.98 GPA. Sometimes it takes a crisis (and finding your way out of the crisis) to get things turned around.