title: Luck, jobs and learning.
abstract: Eve Marder believes that many of the most important events in our lives, both personal and professional, depend to some degree on luck or chance.
authors.affiliation: is an eLife Senior Editor, and is at the Department of Biology and the Volen National Center for Complex Systems , Brandeis University , Waltham , United States marder@brandeis.edu.
authors.forename: Eve
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marder
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008016:Life Change Events
keywords: Living science; careers in science; grad school; postdocs