What event did you miss that saved your life (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by x4740N@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Saw the post asking people for mising their plane stories and made me wonder if peoples lives where saved by missing some event so here I am asking

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[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 year ago

I did interview with a company in the Twin Towers ~1999. Didn't take it, wasn't that interested in continuing to sysadmin. Assuming I'd still have been there a couple years later, that could've been the worst day ever.

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