Why Engineers Need Entrepreneurship with Bestselling Author Taylor Pearson – Ep 093

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Why Engineers Need Entrepreneurship with Bestselling Author Taylor Pearson

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.

Here are some key points from this episode:

#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.

#2 – For the past 40 years the only job segment with growth has been non-routine, cognitive type – i.e. creating systems. The only segment that is growing is non-routine cognitive work. When you build your career, you have to think about the skills that are non-routine and can do the cognitive work.

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#3 – Jobs in almost all industries are becoming increasingly commoditized. Getting a certain degree or certification may not be as important as before; you have to have that skill (the ability to do non-routine cognitive work) that companies are looking for.

#4 – Entrepreneurship is a skillset which can be acquired. You can learn the skills of entrepreneurship just like you learned how to become an engineer.

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#5 – With the Internet, geography is irrelevant. Entrepreneurship or starting a business has gone global; you don’t have to have a storefront. 

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#6 – The stairway to entrepreneurship allows you to move from the job you’re in now, to the freedom you desire. Taylor gives an analogy of the stair step theory with lifting weights at the gym – stair stepping your way up to bigger businesses or successes.

The 9 to 5 jobs aren’t necessarily stable anymore. How you think about risk or how you define risk will determine if you or somebody else controls your career’s future. Taylor gives an analogy of the turkey and the butcher.

Entrepreneurs have much higher leverage points – you might have the credentials but they might not be putting you ahead because everybody has those same certifications, however if you take those certifications and start your own business with more geographical reach, you have more leverage than other people with the same credentials.

More details on these in the episode…

In the Take Action Today segment of the show, Taylor shares how you can get started as an entrepreneur in your engineering career with your existing skill sets.

“The degree to which we’re able to design our reality is directly related to our quality of life, freedom, and wealth. Those that design reality have a higher quality of all factors in their life, and through designing their reality they enable others to do the same by creating more wealth.” – Taylor Pearson

About our guest Taylor Pearson 

Taylor Pearson is an entrepreneur and author of the #1 bestseller The End of Jobs. Inc.com rated The End of Jobs as one of the top three Start Your Own Business Books of 2015. Bestselling Author and Serial Entrepreneur James Altucher said of it: “Entrepreneurship is not a choice you can make at your leisure. You have to jump on the train or lose your chance. Now is the time and Taylor’s book describes exactly how to do it.”

Resources and links mentioned in this session include:

Support us in Patreon
Upwork.com
TECC 39: How Being an Entrepreneur can Help you in your Engineering Career with Sam Lytle, PE of CivilFX
Taylor Pearson website

Book mentioned in this session include:

The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5


The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

The 4-Hour Workweek

Value Redesigned: New Models for Professional Practice

Have you taken your first step towards entrepreneurship?

We would love to hear any questions you might have or stories you might share on how you have shifted your mindset about entrepreneurship in your engineering career.

Please leave your comments, feedback or questions in the section below.

To your success,

Anthony Fasano, PE, LEED AP
Engineering Management Institute
Author of Engineer Your Own Success

One Response

  1. Super guest and topic Anthony! Thanks for providing it! I’m 100% on board with the premise that we all have to be more entrepreneurial in our careers. The stair step approach is a smart and effective way to do it too. Even while we are still working as employees, we can become intrepreneurs–entrepreneurs within our organizations. That’s what I did. Now I’m taking an entrepreneurial approach with my project management career too, and helping others do that for themselves. No matter what our profession, this is exactly what we will need to do for career and lifestyle success in our digital revolution. I promoted this episode to my subscribers at Project Management Success blog here: http://bit.ly/1kZXCHR. Thanks again for the highly relevant, valuable, and exciting episode! Brett

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