Seconding this. I was in a bad rut for many years after college, not making much money or much of myself in general, before a friend told me about a job opening

Seconding this. I was in a bad rut for many years after college, not making much money or much of myself in general, before a friend told me about a job opening at his company within my wheelhouse. So after getting that job and having a few side-projects go well, I got myself back on-track and living the sort of life I had been hoping for. To a certain degree you can make your own luck, but sometimes you really do just need good old fashioned random good luck to get on track.