Episode 815 | Unexpected Skills Your Day Job Can Teach You About Entrepreneurship (Rob Solo)

Welcome back to Start Up for the Rest of Us. I'm your host, Rob Walling. And in this episode, I'm gonna talk about the unexpected skills your day job can teach you about entrepreneurship. And I don't just mean if you are working for a tech company or if you are a software engineer at a large firm. I'm gonna walk back through my history of jobs from when I was a teenager and I was a courier driving a vehicle all around the Bay Area, delivering things, picking them up, and things I learned during that time as well as being a construction worker, being a developer, being a manager of developers. And I'm just gonna talk about all the things that I learned during those times as well as a mindset that I had during this time that I think helped me learn more than if I had just shown up every day clocked in and clocked out. Before I dive into that, applications for this round of a MicroConf Mastermind Matching close in just two days. Building a SaaS alone is lonely, and it can be hard. If you wanna surround yourself with a small group of folks who are on this journey with you, you should join a mastermind. Luke, a founder who recently went through the program, said, quote, there is something about being in the trenches together with like minded good people willing to offer up their experiences that's nearly impossible to find anywhere else. To date, we've facilitated well over a thousand mastermind matches, bringing together founders from more than 50 countries and 20 time zones based on things like ARR, team size, experience level, and geography. Applications close on January 16 for all the details and to apply today, and you're gonna wanna do it soon. Don't be the person who emails us five hours or five days after it closes and say, I really wanna be matched. You you're gonna miss it. We only do it two, sometimes three times a year, so you're gonna wanna head to micro conf dot com slash masterminds. That's microconf.com/masterminds. So the topic for today, looking at unexpected skills or day job, can teach you about entrepreneurship, came up because, periodically, I get emails or questions about things that folks can learn about being an entrepreneur or a founder even when they haven't gotten started. Right? Before they have the ability to build or launch or do any of the other things, I believe you can learn from so many life experiences, including traveling the world, living in a different country than where you grew up, being in relationships, whether that's, you know, being married or having kids. There's there's things you can learn from everyday life. But I think that a lot of folks wanting to be entrepreneurs are so anxious or so motivated or so in a hurry to get away from their day job or to never have a day job that …