We all have to work and plan hard. A little luck along the way is nice though. I once had the opportunity to do a sponsored HNC. It did me well, but I had to work ever weekend for that year as well.
Later, I was paid for to do a CERTed. Those opportunities don’t happen often. I was thankful for mine.
Its a nice feeling if your offspring are succeeding and that you have been able to support them.
When my son bought his first house, he did not quite make the criteria for a mortgage. I went to see the Woolwich manager and offered to use the equity in my house as collateral and stand as a guarantor. He said that that would not work legally, but he would take my word for it and give him a mortgage. He was an ex Gloucester and England rugby player. My daughter later went to work for him. They remain FB friends. So luck can also be engineered.
John