alt Hacker News>Through my old network more quality opportunities found me than I could take on.
This is something that never ever happened to me.
Every single thing I got in life I had to do the diligence to get and that includes "opportunities". Zero freebies for me.
What I find interesting these days is that I increasingly find people in situations like this one (no job, don't know what do, etc...), whereas for me it keeps getting easier and easier to get the things I want and my rate goes higher and higher.
I'm not for/or against a particular style, it must be real nice if life just solves everything for you while you just chill or whatever. But, a nice upside of being made of talent instead of luck is that when luck starts to run out, well, ... you'll be fine anyway :).
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I earned their respect over many years of hard work -- hardly a freebie!
I will say that being social and being in a scene at the right time helps a lot -- timing is indeed almost everything.
Talent makes luck. Ex-colleagues reach out to me and ask me to work with them because they know the type of work I do, not because it's lucky.
Also wtf did I just read. Op said he uses his network to find work. And you go on a rant about how you're rising and grinding to get that bread, and everything you have ever earned completely comes from you, no help from others? Jesus Christ dude, chill out.