What was/is your "Against The Odds" situation

I want to know what you accomplished (at any point) where everything was against you.

My situation was the entire time I worked on Ubuntu Lumina where I had to help my family move, deal with the isolation and depression, work against a billion issues making Ubuntu Lumina work, deal with mountains of doubt, and always on the verge of giving up. I thankfully didn't, and I got to the testing ISO where only two known issues need to be fixed at this time.