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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

Randomly asked my boss to relocate me to another country. I’ve been living abroad for 5 years now.

I have 4 kids, two cats, and a house with someone I used to think was long gone from my life; We accidentally ran into each other again while I was visiting the old country, and then a volcano caused me to stay for a week extra, and old sparks began to reignite.

Also, my career for the past 15 years has been in an industry I hadn’t heard of before, all because I applied to something “different”, just to see. I didn’t meet any of the educational requirements, I didn’t know what the job was about, the job interview didn’t go particularly well (not poorly either, though), but somehow they hired me out of a stack of 200 interviewees.

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.

Over 20 years ago, I met my future wife on a bus. There was a fare dispute and the bus got pulled over by the police for like an hour, giving us time to talk.

When I graduated college my mom apparently passed my resume around to everyone, and her diving instructor gave it to a friend who gave it to a coworker who decided to give me an interview. I’m still in a career that started with the most random of connections.

A couple years ago, my mom discovered from my DNA test that she had assumed my father incorrectly based on the gestation timeline estimated by the doctor. She told me my real dad’s name, and I have met him and learned of new siblings, cousins, uncles, and grandmother. Whoops.

Sometimes the most random of events has lifelong consequences.

I’m trans, estranged from my birth family, and living in a small commune in the French countryside.

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”

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 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.

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.

Not particularly random, but I think my dice are weighted towards 1 and 20