Career advice for people with bad luck
I really want to see more articles like this on HN.  However, this is really &quot;career advice for people at struggling companies.&quot;  The luck part doesn&#x27;t get discussed in the way I expected.  To me, bad luck is things like:<p>- You&#x27;re in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Ex. you graduated in 2008-2010&#x2F;now or your business sector got wiped out by COVID<p>- Despite your best efforts at networking, you simply never meet that magical person who can strap a booster rocket to your career&#x2F;company<p>- You don&#x27;t have a resilient financial and mental safety net in the form of good friends&#x2F;family early in your career that enables you to take risks, or you got dealt a bad hand in the form of things like dependents or health issues and simply can&#x27;t afford to take risks<p>- Despite all your work, you get blindsided by things completely out of your control.  Ex. a big company straight up rips off your product&#x2F;service&#x2F;side gig or an executive at your company guts your project&#x2F;department<p>- You don&#x27;t have the magic paper credentials to get you through the doors at places you want to go because you didn&#x27;t know you needed them earlier in life when they were practical to get<p>These are the kinds of things I want to see tackled with real-world career advice since I think they apply to a lot of people.  For every lucky executive or entrepreneur there are many who were unlucky.