Success in the industry is more to do with luck than necessarily being the best.
I worked with a woman with astounding talent, but her energies in the end were in local theatre group, and producing musicals with me.
My feeling is you should have enjoyed success, Ted.
It's the luck of the draw.
Before going into acting, Sean Connery had many different jobs, such as a milkman, lorry driver, a laborer, artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, coffin polisher and bodybuilder. He also joined the Royal Navy, but was later discharged because of medical problems.