1 opportunity

2 favorable circumstance

3 stroke of luck

1 to meet

2 to run into

3 to come across

1 a chance encounter

2 to meet accidentally

1 happy encounter

2 fortuitous meeting

3 adventure

1 treatment

2 pay

3 salary

4 status

5 rank

1 meeting an old friend in a foreign place (idiom)

1 can be discovered but not sought (idiom)

2 one can only come across such things serendipitously

1 to have talent but no opportunity (idiom)

2 to be an unrecognized talent

1 lit. the kindness of recognizing sb's worth and employing him (idiom)

2 patronage

3 protection

1 to stir up trouble at every opportunity (idiom)