Accents are very easy for me.
When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent.
I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.
I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.
I get to be goofy and quirky and sweet at the same time.
All my friends are funny, witty, fun-loving people. As are my parents, and the people I work with. I get at least a couple of good laughs in every day.
Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work.
My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.