Robyn Anderson explains why she's unemployable in corporate jobs: she won't work in July, demands full autonomy, and speaks bluntly. As a small-business owner, these traits became strengths. She shares her JAM framework—Just start, Automate, Monetize—for launching a venture without permission.
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Welcome back to "Are you an entrepreneur or are you just unemployable?" I recently was asked on a podcast why I started my first business in 2008, and well, I realized I'm kind of unemployable. There's a lot of things that make me unemployable. Number 1, I don't work in July. Number 2, I don't like having to ask anyone for anything as far as can I do something. So back when I worked in agencies, I needed full autonomy or else it just wasn't going to work. Number 3, I think I'm probably on the spectrum a little bit, and I just tell people exactly how I feel and what I think, and that doesn't really work in corporate America. However, these things have served me incredibly well as a small business owner. I can be impulsive sometimes, I know that, but as far as running my own business, I have a whole acronym called the JAM method, which is just start, automate, monetize. And the just start part doesn't work if you have to ask for permission. So I'm curious, are you an entrepreneur or are you just unemployable? Tell me why in the comments.