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Shuffle a deck of cards and draw a hand of 5 cards. The odds that you drew those exact 5 cards are very low. You were lucky to draw those cards. However, the
by dahfizz 5y ago
Shuffle a deck of cards and draw a hand of 5 cards.
The odds that you drew those exact 5 cards are very low. You were lucky to draw those cards.
However, the odds that you end up with 5 cards anyway is 100%.
Its the same with your career. The odds that you ended up taking the exact path that you did, with all the serendipity and chance involved, is lucky. But the chance that any halfway decent programmer ends up with a high paying job is damn near 100% right now.
There are a lot of forks in the road on the way to success. Looking back, each of those forks looks lucky to you because they landed you in you current success. But you could have taken the opposite road at any of those forks and still been successful.
- kqr 5y agoAs Feynman put it, > You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!
- alex504 5y agoI agree with this 100%, just want to add that the key is to be proactive and take the forks. If you are a halfway decent programmer and can navigate the job market in a halfway decent way you will end up with a high paying job. Some people are terrible at the latter and it is painful to watch.