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Originally Posted by Kaneman
Not at all. Extremely hard worker and all around smart guy. Definitely a case of a guy who really earned his way....and got a bit lucky as well. He says he created his own luck by working his ass off though, which is fair enough.
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And he's correct. It's not "luck," so much as being in the right place at the right time because you bust your ass to actually BE in the right place. You bust your ass to get your name out there and make contacts. Most hollywood people weren't simply "found" out of shear luck, they did all they could to get their names in front of the right people. Same with most people in higher positions in corporations. Sure, some of those people were born into wealthy families that helped get them in the right places, but many actually put themselves in the right places and busted their ass to get there.
These OWS people kind of remind me of my ex, who has been unemployed since May. She bitches that I earn a "bunch of money" and thinks I don't pay enough in support. However, the amount of support I pay is based on what the court system says I should pay, which is actually a pretty big chunk of my pay. I carry health insurance for my daughter, on top of paying support. I work two jobs and I'm also going to school to put myself in a better position to earn a higher paying job. I do all of this while still taking care of my daughter 40% of the time and making sure that when I have my daughter, I spend time with her. How do I do that? By having an extremely limited social life. Eventually, I'll get back to where I can have a normal social life, but right now, I don't have much option if I want to better myself and get into a better financial position in life.
Yet my ex says she's not lucky enough to be able to work two jobs. Um, she's not even working ONE, and that's completely by choice. Instead, she earns unemployment (supposedly, since I've never seen any documents to that fact) and she volunteers at my daughter's school, helping one of the teachers. Taxes, health insurance and child support take away 45% of my income from my primary job, yet I'm "fortunate" enough to have two jobs. It's actually not that tough to get a job in this town, I see signs all over town that places are hiring, yet my ex prefers to volunteer at the school while earning unemployment and bitching about how much I earn and how little she thinks I pay in child support. [/rant]