Carolyn Jack

Editor and CEO, Geniocity.com
A project of The Genius Group LLC

Entrepreneur: the job description

This about covers it:

Highly creative idea person needed to think up new product(s)/service(s), plus entire workable enterprise to make, sell and deliver them. Substance abuse discouraged. Must have superlative conceptualization and follow-through skills, including vivid imagination, hard common sense, monkish devotion to research and writing, cocktail-party personality, relentless organization, eel-like flexibility, dead nerves, bubbling passion, endless patience, staunch principles, bewitching persuasiveness, low expectations and a bent for practical math.

Own kneepads essential.

Ability to sit, drive, meet, talk on the phone or mouse-click for 12 hours straight an absolute requirement, no exceptions. Fluency in digital technese, adspeak, boilerplate and bankish encouraged. Large trust fund a plus.

Prefer previous experience in these areas: fund-raising, file-clerking, IT, the armed services, massotherapy, bookkeeping, storytelling, motivational psychology, NASCAR, bureaucracy, game shows, data-entry, panhandling, industrial engineering, skunk-wrangling, philosophy, fire-walking, indentured servitude, politics, poker, alchemy, baggage-handling, plate tectonics, improvisational comedy, evangelism, night carrier-landings, parasitology, kung fu and opera.          

So how come so many people apply?