• shalafi@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      I started with borrowing my mother’s lawnmower, that’s it. But the first afternoon I had enough to buy a weed eater. Couldn’t even afford a pager, had to call my mom and check on customer calls.

      Crud. Forgot where I’m at. Yes, success is nothing but luck 99.9994% of us will never have.

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      2 days ago

      Success is a combo of luck and work. Many people have one, OP got both. Let’s congratulate them instead

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      And live in an area where there’s demand and where people will give you jobs, i.e. you have the right skin colour.