Have you ever met a stranger that gave you advice that changed your life?
Have you lost a partner at a young age? Got a rare disease?
Decided to buy bitcoin on a whim in 2009?
Changed careers several times?
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Talk to a family law attorney about establishing rights and protecting the kid.
Holy shit, that’s awesome man! Many would’ve just given the kid over to “the system” and it would’ve sucked for him. I’ve taken my nephew in, because his home was a mess. He’s back with his mom now, but still comes here one weekend each month. It’s the best thing in the world and I’m thinking about taking in other kids too, when my own kids are a bit older.
Reading books in the elevator got me a promotion from working in the call center -> becoming an analyst. Changed my life trajectory. The VP of Finance saw the books I was reading, we had a brief convo and then he offered me a job the next week.
Second most interesting one is I bought $180 worth of option calls on Heinz Ketchup, and then they randomly got bought out by Warren Buffett. I think it was a total of $28k in profits at a time when I was making maybe 30-40k/year
My younger sister started watching Sailor Moon in '96. I occasionally joined her to mock her for it. Then I noticed it was the absolute shit and I became a bigger fan than she was.
I unironically credit Sailor Moon (and anime) with changing the course of my life because, although it gave my bullies another target on my back, it helped me through school while at least keeping some semblance of sanity. I met my husband in the Sailor Moon online community of the early internet, I majored in Japanese at university, and I learnt to draw because I wanted to recreate what I saw on screen.
If my sister hadn’t watched that dumb kiddie cartoon, I would not be where I am.
Randomly asked my boss to relocate me to another country. I’ve been living abroad for 5 years now.
I always say yes, so most of the things I have and am are mostly coincidental. Like, I’ve never gotten a job through a formal application procedure. They’ve all been through “networking”, but without any actual effort.
I’m not complaining, my life is great, but I sometimes feel like I’m being lived, instead of living my own life. I’m sure that’s gonna come back at me during my midlife crisis, but I’m not there yet.
Right now I am thinking about my career and laying out an actual plan for once and it feels dirty, but also it feels like the right thing to do.
I’m trans, estranged from my birth family, and living in a small commune in the French countryside.
A friend asked “What about go to France for a year?” when I was at uni in my birth country Sweden.
Sure! She said lets buy a car and drive there! Ok!
Decided it was fantastic, stayed when the year was over (with a whole bunch of stories I’ll anoy the grandchildren with), and I’m still here :-)
Some years later, my SO in like the y 2000 : Lets go to Paris! Spent 10 years there.
The people I disliked the most in my life all got fucked over lol It’s not much but I kinda feel good because of this :)
I met my boss (for going on 19 years now) when he came in as a substitute teacher at college.
He likes to say “MightyLordJason got an A on my midterm so I offered him a job”
All our lives are absolutely random, even if it doesn’t appear so, you were one of trillions of sperm and are one of billions of humans.
It can be argued that everything in your life is down to pure chance. I know that some people don’t like that idea, especially when they are somewhat successful and want to talk about all the hard work they did to gain their achievements.
I mean, success is not all random. It’s part of that, but it’s not enough for most people.
I disagree.
I do understand where you’re coming from though, you’re opinion is very common. When you’ve worked your whole life to be comfortable and you want to understand why some people are living in comparitive poverty, it’s nice to just think about how lazy and feckless they are and how hard working and diligent you are.
I’m not saying that your opinion is even entirely untrue (although I do think it’s mostly untrue), but I am saying that good chance has an awful lot more to do with it than most people consider.
You could be the most hard working person in history, be born in Africa and die of dysentery at age five. Likewise, I myself am doing OK as an electrician, but the only reason for that is that my dad was an electrician and he helped me get on to a path in to the career via an apprenticeship that I was very lucky to get. I have no idea what I’d be doing today if I hadn’t gone down that career path by pure chance.
It’s not like you don’t need luck and I’m ignorant (arrogant?) enough to think all my life is of my own doing.
To not reveal many personal details, let’s just say I’m from a very different background than you are and not much was handed to me. Not even a career path.
I’ve been extremely lucky a few times and my hard working nature did the rest. Sure, without luck my hard work would be worthless. But without my hard work all the luck would amount to nothing.
It all amounts to opportunities and for many people the opportunities are very few.
I am from Bosnia. My mother watches TV all day but signal bad. I get work visa, go to America. Declare my love for President. Rise up in ranks of conservative society. Marry tradwife, have kids. High paying job in telecommunications. One day I stay late and pull out central signal cable from entire NY comms hub. NY goes dark. Fly back to Bosnia with cable, plug into mothers TV. She has good signal now.
I know this one!
;-)
The only big thing that happened in my life is living in Europe since 2007. Still the same anti social person without any direction or ambition
Not particularly random, but I think my dice are weighted towards 1 and 20
Eh, you get 8s and 12s every day, you just don’t make note of them
