Someone might over-simplistically state: "fortune favors the prepared". Sure opportunity presented itself - and one might even call it luck - but in order to c

Someone might over-simplistically state: "fortune favors the prepared". Sure opportunity presented itself - and one might even call it luck - but in order to capitalize on it, it took Randy Brown's and his family's perseverance and intelligence to do so. Kudos to him and his family! Some of the things mentioned struck a close chord with me. My parents are immigrants and - though they would have liked to help - they had no higher education nor any advice to provide me when I was doing things like choosing the college to apply/attend, filling out/submitting financial aid forms, figuring out how to pay for college myself, even choosing my major, let alone helping me with suggestions on my future professional career! I was born here in the U.S., so i was "lucky" to not have language as an additional barrier. And as other posters stated, being in certain geographic regions of U.S. is helpful...But still, navigating your way through some aspects of life without having sage advice from experienced people, and people who can help with things like careers, college, etc. is freaking really hard! Again, congrats to Randy Brown - and all the Randy Browns of the world - for this kind of accomplishment. To echo @simonw's perfect statement: very inspiring story!