You're not starting from scratch, you're starting with experience. Experience most would wish they had before they tried out anything from the start. You would not likely repeat the same mistakes so this moves your progress faster than soemone with 0.
I had a routine, then I stopped schooling, realized what I knew from the classroom had less impact with the real world. Got a job and more responsibilities I never knew I could have
Learned with the setbacks and came back into the classroom with a new perspective, turns out my grades didn't count for shit out there so I pursued more studies outside the classroom like how money works and etc.
You can think of these setbacks like the world is making you its bitch and for good reason. Or you can think of these moments as lessons to live by and you're paying the tuition. You start again again, pero hindi sa scratch, you start with experience.
What if I want to be someone else's bitch and not the world's? Charot.
Thanks for giving a different perspective on this. I wasn't considering my past experiences when I was thinking about it. It's easier to discredit those especially when I feel that the knowledge I currently have barely scratched the surface.
!PIZZA
Palibre chicken nuggets.