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Nine times out of ten , students who do well in school find good jobs.

Some work in an office doing the same things every day at nine-to-five jobs.

You do not have to dress to the nines, or wear your best clothes, for this kind of work.

Last year, one of my friends applied for a better job at her office. I did not think she would get it.

I thought she had a hundred to one shot at the job. Other people at her office thought her chances were a million to one .

One reason was that she had been caught catching forty winks at the office.

She slept at her desk for short periods during the day.

But her supervisor appointed her to the new job at the eleventh hour -- at the very last minute. I guess her lucky number came up.