If you have given the ability to choose a job that has this or that characteristic that is convenient for you, then consider yourself very lucky. Many people can't find a job at all. Don't forget it, else overextention is ahead
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If it were merely luck, it wouldn't happen over and over in every state and country I've lived in, for nearly 3 decades.
I'm just relentless, insatiably curious and I learn really fast.
Luck has nothing to do with it. Hard work, experience, and an understanding of my place in the world has made the difference. I came from nothing, and when I die, I will leave the world with something.
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You got the experience because the opportunity has been given to you. The rest might all be your hard work etc, but there is always some luck somewhere
Nothing has been given to me. I took it.
Yeah, we hunt that opportunity down and tackle it, hog-tie it, and drag it to our lair.
For that we have two sayings in Greece, i'll tell you the one. The translation is something like "do your part and Athena (the godess) will help". So yeah hunting opportunities is a must 👍
I think you are discounting how relentless we are.
Probably i discount much more, but yeah you are right again. Just trying to be humble 😃
Be humble by giving credit to the Lord, and acknowledging that He can take it all away again, not by denying how hard you worked.
Blaming chance gives rise to envy and class warfare.
I try to calculate everything. Hard work and chance alike. Envy is not my thing. Class war definitely is though. Fuck the corrupted oligarchs
I would like to hear that story if i may, if not too personal etc. May i?
I’m sorry the world isn’t big enough for me to tell my story, or anymore significant than anyone else’s. We all need to work and scrape to get what we want out of this life.
Of course luck is not the only element you need. Still is important for that.
People keep telling me that, but it always ends up being the same people joining me, when it's time to roll up the sleeves and work.
You can see it on Nostr. Make a post about something silly or sexy and a gazillion people swarm to it.
Say you want to discuss Kant or Ecclesiastes or the best way to compost for organic gardening, or ask for help with some typescript and watch the place immediately clear out and the same 20 people are left over that are always left over.
That's why we all know each other.
It's the same IRL.
Yeah we have a saying for that in Greece. I don't know how to translate that in English. It's έτερον εκάτερον, something like jesus said to court, the things for Caesar are Caesar's things, something like that.
So what about unluckiness. If something goes wrong, is it bad luck?
I don't believe in luck. I believe in Providence.