Meant not to work?

I have a friend who has constantly been getting rejected from job offers as if the universe is trying to pull him out to do something else.

I'm beginning to think that this is happening to me, too. My trip to California turned up a negative for consulting gigs, and a couple of attempts here at home are not looking positive in that regard. One friend's company who might have been interested just hired a bunch of folks. Another friend just downright blew me off yesterday. I sat at a Starbuck's for 40 minutes and called him twice. Never heard anything. I'm not going to push it.

I still have a couple of leads to chase down, but I'm beginning to wonder if I should...