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TECC 93: Why Engineers Need Entrepreneurship with Bestselling Author Taylor Pearson

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In today’s episode, Taylor Pearson, the author of the bestselling book The End of Jobs, talks about entrepreneurship and why the typical 9 to 5 jobs aren’t necessarily “stable” anymore for engineers.

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#1 – The social & technological advancements of the past 100 years have brought us the end of jobs. Now the scarce resource in the economy is entrepreneurship which, while a scarce skill, is one that can create more career freedom. [Read more…] about TECC 93: Why Engineers Need Entrepreneurship with Bestselling Author Taylor Pearson

How to Start an Engineering Company on Your Own and Grow It by Word of Mouth: An Interview with an Engineering Entrepreneur

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How to Start an Engineering Company on Your Own and Grow It by Word of Mouth: An Interview with an Engineering Entrepreneur

The following is an interview with Glen Cooper, performed by one of our guest writers, Menno Gazendam.

Glen Cooper is currently an engineer turned entrepreneur. He recently released a happiness-and-positivity app via the App Store called HappiJar. The app is designed to help us store our happy moments all in a single place, share them with our close relatives and friends and shake a random one free to inspire us each day. And in this article you will learn, just like Glen Cooper, how to start an engineering company on your own.

I usually write articles for EngineeringCareerCoach, but this week I had the privilege to interview the very enthusiastic and business-savvy Glen Cooper, a structural engineer from the UK, on what it is like starting and running your own engineering business.

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