Hmm... Define success. My pay is way lower than it should be, and I'm owed back pay to the tune of thousands $. OTOH, I'm one best around around at my particular specialty, which is construction layout.
I share that with you. I'm 18 (11+7). Master Teacher. People come up to me with questions in real life and I solve them, not even knowing at the beginning how I will arrive at the solution but it happens and I'm often more amazed that I solved the thing than the person who asked me.
Few crazy examples from my life.
I was attending an accounting class. I was sitting in the front row and kinda distracted and not paying attention. Someone sitting besides me asked me something and as I was responding in whispers, the lecturer caught me and asked me a question about what he had written on the board. I was taken aback and almost panicked that he was going to humiliate me and make the whole class laugh at me but then I composed myself, took several seconds to look at what was on the board and out of nowhere, I gave an answer without even thinking. The teacher looked surprised and somewhat satisfied that I knew my stuff and never bothered me again. To this day, I have no idea how I came up with the correct answer.
Another time, again that same accounting subject's final semester exam. The night before, everyone is frantically doing advanced exercises in the book. I'm not interested because my objective wasn't to ace the exam. I've always hated normal education. I thought I would pass with what I knew already. So this bunch of students comes to me in my dorm room and they are like, we've been debating the right answer to this question for almost an hour now and it's not making sense to us. What do you think is the correct answer? So I read the question. It was something pretty complicated, dealing with capital expenditure or whatever. So I gave them my short answer (again, no idea why I knew that was the answer) but they were still skeptical. They asked me to explain. So I thought about it and told them my reasoning which I literally made up on the spot. They went away, came back after about 15 minutes and told me that they went to someone studying Masters in Accounting and he verified my answer and reasoning. And I was like, holy crap. Am I Super Accounts Man? Funny thing is, I never even thought about pursuing accounting as a career because I find it extremely boring. Maybe I effed up my career by doing this because who knows? Maybe I could do accounting with my eyes closed?
And one more time two fellow students asked me about the output of some C code. I had never seen code like that before so I just ran it like what I thought made sense in my head and told them my output. They didn't believe me so they typed it in front of me in the compiler and it gave the same output. They were impressed but even more than that, I was like, holy crap! Am I Super Coder Man?
Since I'm also No.7, I'm probably the only low paid employee in my company who has shouted at the Managing Director, the Head of HR, the Senior Operations Manager and the Chief Operating Officer. Anyone else would've instantly gotten fired for insubordination. People tell me that they put up with me because I'm too valuable to them and they wouldn't be able to find someone dumb like me who would do the things I do for them for what I get paid.