Looks like we both know what it means to start at the bottom. The difference between you and me is that I don't still feel the need to put it on my resume.
You guys would love it if your vision of me was somebody that just had everything handed to him, but all you're left with is trying to compete on the plane of who started in a grittier job. While that's all certainly well and good, what have you done for yourself lately? How far past that steel mill mentality have you advanced?
What you need to do is to tame your envy just long enough to develop the mental maturity necessary to recognize that arrogance and accomplishment aren't the same thing.
Arrogance is "look what I did, but you can't." Most of you guys point at me and call me "arrogant" when all you are really doing is pointing at yourselves and saying, "look what he did, but I CAN'T." You are your own worst enemy. I believe YOU CAN, if YOU TRY.
Most of you tussling with me on this thread, however, are content to take the lazy man's way out, be a typical "9-5-er," make your wage, and sniff at those who tried to do something more and succeeded.
Whatever you did in the gritty past is meaningless unless unless you learned something from it and you're producing something of greater value to someone now. Anything else is just feeling sorry for yourself.