Opportunity

In our Great Stories Club, we are almost finished reading Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos. On page 162, Jack faces being released into the general prison population. He doesn't want to join the "population." So, he asks if he could help in the prison hospital, where he would have his own cell and be safe. He doesn't wait for an offer; he makes his own opportunity.

How can you make your own opportunities? Can you think of a time when you made your own (good) opportunity? As you get older, who is responsible for creating your opportunities?