How do I own my success after going from hourly to a career?

You made a leap most people talk about and never attempt. From hourly work to a professional career, and you hold your own in it. That is worth stopping to acknowledge, because people who climb often rush past their own achievements without ever letting them land. You did something hard. Let that be true. Sometimes a part of the mind still whispers that you do not quite belong, that the old life is the real one and this is borrowed. It is not borrowed. You earned your place with the same grit that got you through every hourly shift. The leap did not make you someone else. It revealed what you were always capable of. When the doubt speaks up, answer it with the facts: you are here, you do the work, you hold your own. Say it plainly. And every so often, look back at where you started, not with unease, but with respect for the person who made the climb.