where does the saying fortune favors the brave come from

When you’ve worked for the same company for a few years you eventually get to the point of becoming everyone’s ‘go to man’ for assistance and spending half your week on conference calls or in meetings. I’m 40 this year and most of my friends and ex work colleagues have chosen different paths like management, design and pre sales etc but being an engineer is what I love doing and always will be. I’m an engineer and need to be close to and working with tools. The only way up from there would have been management which had no appeal to me at all. From an engineering / technical perspective that was the highest position available to me. I’d been with my previous employer for over 6 years and held the title of Principal Engineer. I didn’t want to end up like Goose from one of the best films ever made – Top Gun. Having money and experience behind me was my way of ensuring the canopy was clear before ejecting. This is essential if you want to remove some of the stress away from what is possibly one of the biggest decision’s you’ll make. I’d made a plan to be in a financially viable position and have enough certifications to my name before pulling the ejector seat handle. The decision to go self employed was actually something I planned for some time. Just before doing so I emailed a friend of mine to ask his opinion and the last sentence in his reply was “Fortune Favours The Brave” And we hear about why crypto held such allure for Black investors in particular.One year ago I resigned from my employer to work for myself as a consultant.

We'll assess the damage from the crypto collapse for both individual investors and the wider market. On today's show, we bring you two stories from crypto winter's front lines from Planet Money's The Indicator. In just a few short months, many of the retail investors who bought cryptocurrencies have seen their investments disappear almost overnight.ĭoes it matter to the rest of the economy? Can this crash spread? Following a series of failures among high profile crypto lenders and questions about the industry's underlying viability, crypto has entered a bear market (dubbed 'crytpo winter' by investors) that has, to date, erased nearly five years of Bitcoin gains. As crypto made its way into retirement portfolios, celebrity TV ads sold it as a future-proof investment, prices soared, fortunes were made. A year ago, cryptocurrency seemed to be making a mainstream breakthrough. Apply to be the fall/winter 2022 intern for Planet Money and The Indicator.

Where does the saying fortune favors the brave come from