It’s when I turned to freelancing that I am starting to get some luck! Otherwise, when I was in middle management, the harder I worked, the luckier someone else got! And as I moved to upper management, it was the Chairman/MD’s son whose luck blossomed!
Excellent social statement for our times in my opinion. More than ever, hard work has little to do with success. Americans are among the hardest working people in the world. Yet, the average Joe isn’t getting ahead, quite the contrary. Very rich entities are causing us to have to get one more job in order to just barely make it. And, if you think I’m wrong, then, you’re probably “lucky” and not aware of it. Mallett is spot on IMO.
I remember an episode of MASH where many characters traded places. Among them were Potter and Klinger. They both quickly learned they could not do the other’s job. Klinger learned he could not make those important, critical, on the spot decisions Potter had to make as company CO, and Potter learned he was unable to make deals and talk turkey like Klinger did as company clerk. Different jobs require different skill sets. As an educator, I know I would NEVER want to be an administrator. TOO MANY headaches. I would rather work with the kids in the classroom and as a coach. You make more of an impact that way. Less money, but fewer headaches. I’ll take that trade-off.
“I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, ’wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?’ So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.”
“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that’s a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events — the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there — that must also be a miracle. Just because it’s not nice doesn’t mean it’s not miraculous.”
GreasyOldTam about 4 years ago
I’ve been self-employed for 30 years, and have worked hard the whole time. But it’s amazing how much of what I have I owe to luck.
Concretionist about 4 years ago
Good luck CAN only happen if you have prepared yourself to even notice it, much less take advantage.
Nachikethass about 4 years ago
It’s when I turned to freelancing that I am starting to get some luck! Otherwise, when I was in middle management, the harder I worked, the luckier someone else got! And as I moved to upper management, it was the Chairman/MD’s son whose luck blossomed!
cervelo about 4 years ago
Excellent social statement for our times in my opinion. More than ever, hard work has little to do with success. Americans are among the hardest working people in the world. Yet, the average Joe isn’t getting ahead, quite the contrary. Very rich entities are causing us to have to get one more job in order to just barely make it. And, if you think I’m wrong, then, you’re probably “lucky” and not aware of it. Mallett is spot on IMO.
daijoboo Premium Member about 4 years ago
I thought it was: If something good happens, God did it, and if something bad happens, you sinned.
richbriggs about 4 years ago
I remember an episode of MASH where many characters traded places. Among them were Potter and Klinger. They both quickly learned they could not do the other’s job. Klinger learned he could not make those important, critical, on the spot decisions Potter had to make as company CO, and Potter learned he was unable to make deals and talk turkey like Klinger did as company clerk. Different jobs require different skill sets. As an educator, I know I would NEVER want to be an administrator. TOO MANY headaches. I would rather work with the kids in the classroom and as a coach. You make more of an impact that way. Less money, but fewer headaches. I’ll take that trade-off.
sandpiper about 4 years ago
If the 1% is the weapon, who is the ammunition?
paul GROSS Premium Member about 4 years ago
Luck is when opportunity and preparation meet. What you are describing is envy.
lagoulou about 4 years ago
Good fortune or bad luck…
rlaker22j about 4 years ago
I always told my son you’ll make more money with your head then with your back
dougsathome about 4 years ago
I harder I work, the luckier MY BOSS gets.
meowlin about 4 years ago
“I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, ’wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?’ So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.”
- Marcus Cole, Anla’ Shok Ranger
Plods with ...™ about 4 years ago
The hurrier I go, the behinder I get?
Ina Tizzy about 4 years ago
Unlucky people believe in luck, lucky people don’t.
childe_of_pan about 4 years ago
“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that’s a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events — the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there — that must also be a miracle. Just because it’s not nice doesn’t mean it’s not miraculous.”
-Sir Terry Pratchett