i am happy for you that you have succeeded financially in life - make your bag, good for you
but i think you're confusing 'anyone can do it' with 'everyone can do it'
Taysom Hill can tell a gym full of kids that if they work hard just like him they too can be a swiss army football player - that's a much better story than 'if it wasn't for crazy coach payton listening to a 90 yr old special teams coach, i'd be a PE teacher right now\
so you think that america has 'tons of opportunities' bc you succeeded, even though your own story really doesn't support your argument - if there were tons of opportunities you'r have succeeded much sooner than you did
now think about it honestly
if there are 100 of you. and each go through all of your battles, do you honestly thing each of those 100 will make your Drug and Safety money?
i will tell you that there are 1000s who have your same story, worked as hard or harder and are still in the struggle and most will stay there