Rob Walling

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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 being married or having kids.

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 I actually think they might do themselves a disservice by not taking advantage of what a day job can teach you.

A day job can offer you a steady paycheck and it can offer you health insurance if you're in the U.S., it's a big deal.

It can offer you a lot of things, but something that I think a lot of entrepreneurs

aspiring entrepreneurs and founders overlook is how much I believe you can learn from a day job.

In fact, I think I would be less successful or it would have taken me a lot longer to achieve the success I've achieved if I had not worked several of the day jobs that I'm about to talk about in this episode.

And my hope in telling my own story is that you can see some of the things that I learned from unexpected places.

Like how could I possibly learn how to be a better entrepreneur from driving a car around the Bay Area and picking up and delivering packages?

We're going to find out in this episode.

Really, the conceit of this episode is almost any full-time job can teach you skills that make you a better entrepreneur if you're paying attention.