U-Turn Ahead

job•re•pre•neur [job-bruh-pruh-nur, -noor] Am. Eng. 2007, noun  1. a person who own and operates a business while employed by another. 2. a dual-career specialist who is both employed and self-employed.

The word may be new to you, but jobrepreneurs have been around for a long time.  Now we have a word to describe the practiced art of working for others while working for yourself.

I coined this term to describe something I will be speaking of regularly.  And being a practicing jobrepreneur, I wanted a word to describe those of us who are not ready to give up our job or our business. I’ve even added it to U-Turn’s newly revised categories list.

So, whether you freelance while still employed or wait tables and run a dog sitting business, you are a jobrepreneur.  You might even be someone who is operating a business, but decided you also need a regular job. Being a jobrepreneur is a proud tradition.  So go ahead.  Say it out loud.  I know, it doesn’t roll off the tongue.  The word is a bit challenging…but then, so is being a jobrepreneur.