Yeah but, it's not like I have some god given talent the next person can't obtain. I went to a shitty university, and it took me 4 years to finish a 3 year undergrad. From there on, it was all about building skills, and making very intentional decisions to steer my career.

There's the classic joke of how to pick up women: "Step 1: Be attractive. Step 2: don't be unattractive" - which is funny because you can't change your appearance. But if you have a skill gap on your CV it is absolutely within your remit to fix that. Don't like your current job? You can change that. Don't have what it takes to pass the interview rounds? You can fix that. Spend 2 weeks doing leetcode exercises and you'll ace any coding test.