[cactus2093]

> I always come up just short, because I'm a little weird and I'm not a specialist... I'm a generalist. Not enough businesses actively recruit failed founders

No offense meant to you but this comes off as a little lazy and entitled. As a founder you should be familiar with encountering situations where you’re perhaps a bit out of your depth and not perfectly prepared, but you eventually figure out a way to do what needs to be done. No reason you can’t apply that mentality to getting a regular job if you wanted to.

I’m a previously failed founder myself, now working at a FAANG company. Nobody recruited me specifically as a former founder, and it wouldn’t have made sense to. There are certainly aspects of being a good problem solver that many founders possess that are universally useful, but notice the failed part of my background. I hadn’t proven anything to anyone through that experience. Instead I prepped for and went through the interview process like everyone else, got my fair share of rejections along the way (which is another thing being a founder prepares you for!), but eventually found something that works for me.

[Tomminn]

I think it's strange to call someone "entitled" whose back-up plan if their start up fails is to work in a tire store. Entitled people's plans don't include tire stores.

[rsj_hn]

> Entitled people's plans don't include tire stores.

Why do you think so? I've met some extremely entitled people with very few options in life, often because their entitlement gets in the way. In grad school I was friends with a homeless guy who insisted that he wouldn't take a job in which a younger person was his boss (he was in his fifties) as he felt he was a lot smarter/wiser than those people. So that ruled out a lot of job options for him. His backup plan was doing some work in construction and helping out a guy with a welding shop because those bosses were older and one of the few people he respected well enough to consider working for them.

Being entitled is a state of mind, in which you think you are better or more deserving than what life is giving you. It is a question of the heart, not the career.

[Tade0]

I think you're reading something else from this than was intended.

It's not like he wants a role that would align with his experience, it's more like he's concerned that as a failed founder, his CV would land in the bin.

The tire shop remark points to this interpretation.