Speculate away Cydney, that's all we can do anyway.  What you fail to see is that "he" did not quite drinking and "he" did not get a job.  These were gifts provided by others. Someone decided to hire him. He was given the gift of intention to quite drinking.  Where I suspect we disagree is where individual intention comes from. Does it manifest from an individual "Self" or is it a product of infinite conditions beyond a separate controlling "Self." The irony of me even commenting back to you is hillarious to me because you will likely just think it is ridiculous and collapse back into your comfortable self righteousness.  We are, afterall, a self righteous culture, believing that we know the truth of material reality, objectivity, and are each in control of separate controlling autonomous selves.  I don't blame you if you hate me for my comment. You are not at fault for what you think, just conditioned phenonmena unfolding.