I've gotten pretty lucky this year, which is noteworthy simply because I almost never get lucky (in every definition of the word) so I figured I'd share. Earlier this year I won a pair of airline tickets from a company drawing (round trip for 2 can also mean round trip for 1 twice, apparently!). While on my way back from Arizona I decided to make a lunch stop in Vegas, after a stupidly expensive steak ($35 for the steak, by itself, no sides included) I dropped $20 into a slot machine and proceeded to test my limits of belief as the money kept growing, eventually I left with $1000 (and some change) deciding best not to press my luck (any further) and get back on the road. Yeah, I wouldn't believe me either, so I took a picture XD. They wouldn't let me take the picture at the counter so I took it in my rental car. Thus my visit to the Hotel California ended up quite profitable. So hey, how about sharing some stories of pure luck? XD
I applied for a job once, for a field that I wasn't competent in and which would have required a lot of traveling since it wasn't where I lived. Turns out I even got my name wrong in their application form - the name field read "Matti Meikäläinen" which is Finnish for John Doe, as I quickly glanced it through and saw nothing wrong with it I sent it. Got a call back a couple days later where the recruiter started with "oh man, we've been laughing at the office at this John Doe application!" - to which I thought, well, that's just great, chalk it up to my long list of screw ups. But then he started talking "yea I showed this to my boss and we laughed about it a lot but he's been looking to set up a game studio. Then we looked and saw that your skills would be a lot better used for making games - so would you be interested in being in charge of the development at the new studio?" The best job in my life so far and the best paid one too, ended up working there for 4 years. What are the odds? Screwing up your name so that you become the office joke and end up being seen by the owner of the company who wouldn't have seen your application due to it being flat out rejected below him.
