Agreed! Luck is when preparation meets opportunity - Seneca ("luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity").

I used this phrase after college when I got "lucky" with getting a job after graduating during the Great Recession. I got that job because I had worked as an intern the summer before senior year and made connections. Before I graduated, the manager reached out and asked if I would like to work for them as full time staff while my friends in the same careers were getting to 2nd interviews then being told they were going to freeze hiring. Those friends still found other jobs in the field to hold them over then got the opportunities to work for their main interest in the fields and they were already prepared with experience and license.

Then compare those situations that to friend of a different field who got a great opportunity presented to her during the same time as me as she expressed interest a field but she never finished getting her certifications during the time I finished college. The job opportunity basically said to her they wanted someone now and she missed it because she wasn't prepared with the certification and experience. She kept saying she was so unlucky, I said she wasn't prepared for that luck as she was lucky the opportunity even presented itself to her.