It's frustrating to split up a life story into "education" and "experience," as if we had gotten all our information in high school and college and then did increasingly impressive things with it in a linear "because Step 1, therefore Step 2" way.

When we're helping others to learn and grow, we're working. When we're working, we're learning and growing. We can gain skills and lose them, and part of what we're "good at" depends on what we have interest and time for, which depends on already having sufficient resources. Some of it is positive thinking, looking the part, or just luck. The narrative is going to change in a spiral way.