I was talking to my Mom about this - she'd been out of her old industry for 10 years, and was moving back to the East Coast from the Mountain states and got a p

I was talking to my Mom about this - she'd been out of her old industry for 10 years, and was moving back to the East Coast from the Mountain states and got a pretty good job. She said she was really lucky. I said, Mom, you weren't lucky, it was a longshot to get that job, but you hustle, and you're good to people, and you'd have kept going until you got something. And I listed all the friends she'd met and people she'd helped back East, and how eventually she'd get hired to work with one of them. Any individual job opportunity had a low chance of working - but, in total, it was fairly inevitable. But that's the funny thing - no matter what job she got, it was going to feel "lucky" because it was a longshot. But getting a good job wasn't a longshot, my Mom is incredibly hard working and good to people, she'd have gotten something almost no matter what.