I landed the job I have now. I have been out of work more than I've been employed - I'm just not good at keeping jobs plus have bad luck with them. So I've now been here longer than I've been at any other job. They love me here. I've never had that experience before. It's very Sally Field.

The other most awesome thing:
DD's mother sends her to her grandparents every summer for almost . The grandparents are chain smoking, FOX watching, racist homophobes. The older DD got the less she wanted to go there. They wouldn't take DD anywhere, but also wouldn't let her go anywhere on her own. When DD was 11, I took her out to dinner at a nice place the day before her flight. While we were waiting for our food, DD burst into tears so I had her come sit in my lap and we talked quietly while I rubbed her back. When the food came I sent her back to her chair and we had a nice meal. Then the waitress came over and said a couple at the next table was going to pay for our meal and they insisted we get dessert. DD and I were totally blown away and every time I think of it I get a little teary.

2 years ago we walked out of our house and found an envelope full of cash. And another. And another. It was over $3000. We called the police and reported it and turned it in. They held it for 90 days and then called us when nobody claimed it after that and said it was legally ours.

So many things related to my job. Became indispensable after a higher-up quit (shortly after I started and I was panicked at the time). Huge financial windfall for the company right before I started so my starting salary was MUCH higher than it would have been had I started basically any other time. Office move that cut 30 mins off my commute. Just thing after thing and I'm so so grateful.

Adopted 2 healthy infants with no wait at reasonable prices. This didn’t come until after a lot of heartache but it was pretty amazing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Found $1000 on the street (10 $100 bills). I had just moved to a HCOL city from a LCOL city and had had to wait several months for my new job to start... it was amazing.

Hopefully it belonged to a drug dealer and not someone who needed it desperately. I lost a $100 bill on rent day once. My mom was able to wire me $100 a couple days later, but I was charged a $175 late fee, and had to eat food pantry donations the rest of the month.

Uhh, ok.

I was waiting for my spouse to come down to dinner at the Atlantis resort. Put fifty cents in the slot machine and won three grand. This was all in about a minute.

Got a DUI in early 20s. Not proud of it. Had to get a lawyer and everything. Arresting officer ended up quitting and therefore not showing up to court, case dropped and I had it cleared from my record. Lawyer fees were not cheap but it could have been so much worse and I learned my lesson.

Anonymous wrote:Found $1000 on the street (10 $100 bills). I had just moved to a HCOL city from a LCOL city and had had to wait several months for my new job to start... it was amazing.

Hopefully it belonged to a drug dealer and not someone who needed it desperately. I lost a $100 bill on rent day once. My mom was able to wire me $100 a couple days later, but I was charged a $175 late fee, and had to eat food pantry donations the rest of the month.

Anonymous wrote:I was already going to a particular law school when someone gave a huge gift to the school and the school in turn gave me a full ride for all 3 years. Some out with zero debt when I thought I was have about $120k.

Excuse the weird phrasing. Autocorrect is terrible.

I was already going to a particular law school when someone gave a huge gift to the school and the school in turn gave me a full ride for all 3 years. Some out with zero debt when I thought I was have about $120k.

Found $1000 on the street (10 $100 bills). I had just moved to a HCOL city from a LCOL city and had had to wait several months for my new job to start... it was amazing.

Getting a great job in my field three weeks after I found out I was pregnant
I had been getting by off cleaning houses, light duty work

It was truly a blessing to me

Pure luck: Meeting DH in the first place. Bar on trivia night. Neither of us hung out there. I was there for a friend. He was there for a different friend. I almost stayed home. Bumped into each other unexpectedly at a Meetup event after that.

Everything else I worked like hell to get myself in position to achieve.

I was naked in my AP's bed when we heard the garage door open from his wife. I scurried into another bedroom while he hid my clothes. Wife found my shoes and subsequently started to search the house. I was in the one closet she didn't check.

I've had a few good breaks but one thing that happened to me that I consider pure luck is my bout in foster care was very pleasant and safe. Drastically this is really not the case and my siblings have horror stories but my stint was peaceful. I had one older retired nun who was boring (no tv) but lovely and I had group home experience that was very clinical and not warm feeling but perfectly nice. I'm just so relieved I was able to avoid the normal abuses as I was 11 to 13 during this time and truly the ideal abuse victim candidate. I always thank my lucky stars that part of my life was uneventful.