What is a Job that that you left/got fired from but your life is so much better for it?

So I'll start first. Towards the end of 2016 I was let go from Staples after 7 years. It was my fault and I should have known better. I was a sales manager and my department was getting more and more pressure to hit a quota to sell a certain product. We were great at first but as time went on the goals became ridiculous, hours were getting cut, remaining staff lost motivation, etc.

Long story short I committed fraud in the system to raise sale of the particular product they wanted to push. Loss prevention caught up to me about month later and you can guess what happened.

I eventually got a supervisor job at Home Depot and started at the beginning of 2017. I learned my lesson from Staples and it was a humbling experience especially getting paid less. I did everything by the book but realized I needed/wanted to get out of retail. I was there until 2019.

Towards the end of 2019 I took a risk and went to a temp agency. They used my experience as a manager in retail and also my experience from the Army (I was in the Reserve) to find me an office job.

I knew nothing was guaranteed but I took a gamble and I gave my two weeks at Home Depot without a safety net. Sure enough the company liked me so much thay after 3 months they bought out my contract from the temp agency and hired me aboard. So it's been almost 5 years with them come February. Much better pay, weekends off, etc

I screwed up royally at Staples but I feel if I never made that stupid mistake I would still be working there to this day. There was a point in my life where I was incredibly loyal to that job and they almost made me full General Manager. But everything happens for a reason.