It felt like winning the lottery when I landed that consulting gig with NOAA last year. I kept a running total of hours and earnings, figuring out exactly when I’d “break even” with the inequity of a certain someone’s mean-spirited will.
I buy lottery tickets from time to time, hoping to break even with some other, smaller benchmark, like Ron’s moving expenses, for example.
That hasn’t happened either, but I still feel extremely lucky: I won, big time, last November 26. And it wasn’t about money.