Ever had hard work mistaken for luck?

[blackdogdeek]

It is VERY difficult for people to admit they've made poor choices in their lives. It is MUCH easier to attribute the success of others to some arbitrary external force.

 

[WackyDan]

There can be an element of luck involved when people become successful - someone gets hired because the hiring manager's kids and the candidate's kids are on the same soccer team, and the hiring manager used that as a tie-breaker.

That is good old networking at play. Perhaps some luck of coincidence, but that hiring manager has to have a good opinion of you and you would have had to built some sort of reputation... So, mostly you, not luck.

 

[turtile]

It sounds like the typical person who feels they are entitled to the best. The comments about how your car doesn't have the latest shows...

Your situation in life is already decided for you but what you do with what you're given creates the outcome. You made better decisions so you are in a better position.

 

[Art&Science]

Equality of outcome is on the horizon. Enjoy your spoils while you can.

You really believe that? That the people who have/work are going to just roll over. The very limited social programs we have now are nothing - anything close to what you are alluding to would be... unfortunate for the have nots - it would be... violent.

 

[Exterous]

OP, where is your hard work in not being laid off? You did not specify if you just weren't picked or you actually did make yourself an invaluable asset that they couldn't afford to lay off. That could easily have been luck.

In the bankruptcy case my position was eliminated 2 months before the closing of the company but I was able to stay on because I found other things to work on. Everyone else in my dept was let go before me - many because they wouldn't do those other tasks because those 'weren't their jobs'.

For the most recent one I don't know if the IT dept had ever been asked to downsize but I was the only one who knew the ERP system so my boss told me that he would fight against letting me go but could not guarantee anything