For the most part, your admission to colleges will be based on your high school gpa and your SAT or ACT scores. If you haven’t taken them and your list of colleges include places that require them you need to plan to take them asap (usually by Nov or Dec this coming fall). If you did take SAT/ACT in high school, note that some places do not accept scores older than 5 years.
Your work experience will be a plus, but not enough to overcome any serious deficiencies in HS gpa or SAT scores. Meaning, if the middle 50% of say math SAT scores at a college is 500 - 600 and yours is 430… the real world business experience is not necessarily going to compensate for a low score. Colleges basically want to make certain that their accepted students are prepared for the school’s level of academic rigour, and SAT scores (and HS GPAs) are a strong indicator of such.
If your scores are not up to par, then community college followed by transfer is a very good choice.
So your first step is to figure out a list of safeties, matches and reaches that you can apply to… your “matches” are where your own HS gpa and SAT scores fall in the middle 50% of students. Your safeties are community colleges or state schools where your HS stats almost guarantee admission. You reaches are a dream school or two, though you generally need to make sure your stats are at least on their radar. Ie: if the school’s lowest quartile for math is 500 - 550 and your math score is 430, admission starts becoming very unlikely unless you are a standout in some other way.
You will qualify for financial aid (Stafford loans, etc) based on your own income level. You may want to go to the Financial Aid and Scholarship forum to ask more questions about that aspect. It is a much more active board. It can be tricky to swing college costs even with financial aid, so when you are selecting schools you need to understand if at your income and independent status that the actual overall FA package will be enough for you to afford the school. Some schools have great FA packages, others fall quite short.