I was unschooled (like homeschooled, but with no structure or curriculum) and didn’t really want to do anything but play video games all day until my parents forced me into junior college, where I one day realized that I could get paid to draw Star Wars characters for Lucasfilm. So I got my shit together and went from an average student who was coasting to straight A’s, graduated junior collage with honors, then went to university for six years, earned a BS (summa cum laude) and an MS in graphic design, and put myself 100 grand into debt and now I do manual labor for minimum wage.

It’s the American Dream made manifest.