Comment by marginalia_nu

> 2. The Lucky Ones™ who happened to accidentally align an enjoyable hobby with a career and think because they "did it," anyone can, without acknowledging that they were simply in the right place at the right time with the right skills, or that the stars don't exactly align the same way for the rest of us.

To be fair, advice doesn't have to be applicable to everyone in order to be useful to someone.

Extremely few people get to become astronauts, but that doesn't go to say there isn't relevant career advice for those who do aspire to become one.

Chalking outcomes up to luck is also not a very useful attitude. Life undeniably has a huge random element, but it's more akin to the randomness of the stock market than a pure dice roll. You don't have control of every outcome, but your choices and decisions can massively tilt the scales in favor of getting "lucky".