Mostly right time right place to be honest. Brother and a "friend" wanted to start a company but had no capital. Me, my father and a big name accountant each placed money to start it up (with my father lending money to them to form their share). I handled most a lot of the decision making of the back end of the thing (type of business, filing papers and deciding on how to split shares so that they had a fair share of decisions, etc) so I ended up as CFO.

The "friend" bailed, the accountant died, our 1st few big projects got bad timing killed by google but now things are looking up (my brother is even getting minimum wage now) that said it has been a costly 8 years but hopefully it will fully pay off. As long as I get to have a comfortable life I'm fine with not having the traditional happy family thing.

Sometimes life is about taking the shit it throws at you and making fertilizer to grow some lemons. I learned to enjoy the shit life handed me as challenge to be overcome in the game of life and thus managing to get a sense of peace and contentment with it even if I probably won't get the traditional happy life.