I got a degree in sociology in 1972 but only graduated with a 2.0000000043 :-) GPA and was thrown out into the Carter recession with no skills.

It gets better as time goes on. A lot of skills have to be gained, and contacts made by doing rather than just school. Some things take a bit of time.

I went back to school in the last 10 years, got another degree, got into an accredited, recognized grad school that takes one on one's personal merits instead of just grades, etc.

I get tangled up thinking I just have to make a plan, try, and whatever happens is "it", my success or failure when things are really way more complicated than that and there's a future out there that isn't known and where things are guaranteed to be very different and in ways we can't know.

When I graduated in 1972, there were no computers, no PC's and Internet as we know them, and I turned out to be a computer whiz :-) Even so, for many years I was trying to do computer things in areas that weren't areas I was good in and that slowed me down and confused me too.

It took a long time before I learned to work with what i have in front of me, what interests me (usually areas of one's strengths) and to put in the time and effort. I had a heck of a time with interviewing too so at one point in my life; I was able to afford to take part-time jobs for x period and then practice quitting and interviewing for other part-time jobs, over and over for like 10 years! I still don't like interviewing but I can hold my own and manage to impress some of the people some of the time

You can do whatever you really want but it does take time. Make sure you don't compare yourself with anyone else because there's really no way to do that since lives are arranged differently and people might seem to be going toward/doing the same or similar things but it's just not true. I had two girlfriends in high school I still have now and when we went to college and graduated and started work and advanced education, etc. we were really "different" but I was still trying to compare myself with them and feelng like I was the loser as a result. But looking at my life now, 40 years later, it is not like that and never has been; it's just been my thinking it was.