I'm an idea guy. Apparently I'm worth nothing?
anamax: > I hear something from someone and immediately come up with ideas about it. It's what I do. It's what I'm excellent at.That's not a rare skill.  Lots of people do it.  Many of them are also good at execution.The latter limits your market somewhat.  You're competing for the attention of good executers who don't have good ideas with all of the folks with lame ideas, not just folks like yourself.  There are some very natural reactions to that situation that drive them to prefer working with executers who have ideas instead of going with "an idea guy".The other problem is that there "we" have more good ideas than we can ever hope to implement.Perhaps you need a story that isn't about you or your ideas in the abstract.  Most people prefer stories about them.