Comment by Tade0

You are what I've started to call "34yo Patrice".

34yo Patrice has a stable job, a fiancé and broadly speaking has his life in order.

Nobody in his circle knows he dropped out of high school, got in the wrong crowd and, inevitably, did time.

This archetype is a mix of several people I've met and I usually mention it when a younger person says this and that thing (e.g. dropping out of college) is the end of the world for them. In your 20s it commonly isn't and you can start from scratch - after a decade or so nobody will have any idea about this unless you tell them.