#1: What it Means to be Super Unemployable

Being super unemployable is not easy, it's not even really a choice, it is essentially just the way you were born.  Constantly sabotaging good jobs, bouncing from employer to employer and choosing to work for terrible people just because you know that will make it easier to quit.

 

Ultimately you will either end up starting a company or find yourself in jail.  For me, it could have gone either way, but I found my way out.

 

Welcome to the Super Unemployable.

Episode Transcript

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32 jobs, 10 times being fired, and 22 times leaving a job under suspicious circumstances.
I am the super unemployable. Welcome to my podcast.
What does it mean to be super unemployable?
In my world, what that means is starting a job with every intention of being

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the best, the best you can possibly be.
Rising to the top of your career field, making more money, getting the respect
of your peers, your parents.
Your spouse, only to self-sabotage along the way and find yourself,
once again, unemployed.
Now, it doesn't mean that you're bad at your job. In many respects,

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I was quite good at my jobs.
What I struggled with was keeping those jobs.
Jobs I would often self-sabotage in
ways that would help me either leave
get fired or simply just
part ways now in this podcast I'm going to go through all of the different jobs

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that I've had all the different ways that I've been fired all of the jerk bosses
that I've worked for and some of the even amazing ones that I wish I was still
working with but what you're going to find at the the end is that what it means
to be super unemployable,
it means that you are an entrepreneur.
There is no other option. There is nowhere else for you to go but to start your own business.

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Because if you can't work for somebody else, then the only person that you can
possibly hope to work for is yourself.
I remember it was about 15 years ago and I was sitting at a table with a number
of of other entrepreneurs trying to start a business as I was working between jobs.
And of course that business wasn't going well. So I was planning out the next

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company I was gonna go work for.
And I just remember saying in passing, I am so, so super unemployable.
And everybody around the table put up their hand and said.
Me too. And it was then that I realized that being super unemployable isn't a bad thing.
It's not an easy thing. Don't get me wrong.
Getting fired from jobs over and over, especially the first time you get fired, sucks.

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But you start to realize something about yourself. You have different ambitions.
There's something else in the world that you want to do with your life.
And I encourage you to find that destiny.
I'll be honest with you. I'm not really even sure I have found the place that I'm supposed to be.

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I have a pretty good idea. I found some success with my own company now,
but I had a lot of failures along the way.
In my journey of being super unemployable, I also started eight different companies,
some of which never got off the ground. Others did and they did okay.
And one took off like a rocket and then ultimately left me bankrupt.

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My journey as the super unemployable has been challenging to say the least,
but it's also by far the most rewarding.
And what I'd like to do in this podcast is share with you my stories.
But not just that, I want you to share your stories with me.
So in each episode, I'm going to invite a listener to come along my journey

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while I tell the story of my super unemployable life.
And then I'll open up the floor for them to share their story about their super
unemployable life. And together we can find community.
We can exist. We can still feel good.
We can move into our parents' basement because we have to, because we were fired

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yet again, or because our company has not yet gotten off the ground.
We can live with 10 other people in a share house.
We can travel the world. We can do anything we want as the super unemployable.
But the minute that we embrace our super unemployability, by the way,
I'm pretty sure that is a word I've just made up.

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I'm not sure it's in the dictionary, but together we can make it a word in the
dictionary and one to be proud of, to wear as a badge of honor.
Because not everybody will understand what it's like to be super unemployable.
It is scary not knowing where your next paycheck is going to come from.
It is very, very difficult to not know who you want to even be.

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What is it that your future holds?
But to be super unemployable means that you have a different mission in life.
Something that is going to propel you in directions you can't even fathom today.
And one of the best pieces of advice that I ever received was that success is not linear.
If you look at the greatest entrepreneurs of our time, they rose up and they failed.

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And then they stood back up and rose up again and failed. and this cycle repeats
itself over and over and over again until one day they break through.
And it's that day that they break through that the world notices.
And everybody looks at them and says, oh, wow, they got so lucky.
Look at how successful they are.

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But you and I both know that that was not luck. That was years of hard work.
That was years and years of struggle.
That was a true recognition that you are super unemployable.
So my friends, come with me on this journey while we talk about what it means
to be super unemployable,
how we are going to navigate that super unemployability, and what steps we're

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going to take to prove to the world that being super unemployable is just another form of normal.
I look forward to chatting with you all.