There are three kinds of ambitious workers. Two of them get all the spotlight: the Employee and the Entrepreneur.

You may be an ambitious Employee climbing the company ladder. Collecting titles like trophies. Moving from company to company, or banking political currency, in your quest for money, power, and respect.

Or perhaps you are an Entrepreneur. A "builder." You aim, as David Ogilvy put it, for "the company of immortals." You absorb risk like a sponge, dance on the razor's edge, and live to make bold dreams real.

The third kind of ambitious worker is far less celebrated. Yet it is the one powering business today: the Misfit.

The Misfit rejoices in their craft. Put simply: they are devoted to impeccable work and client outcomes. And as technology and disruption erase the need for amateurs, the Misfit is more in demand than ever.

But the Misfit does not fit the binary. Neither Employee nor Entrepreneur, they inhabit a third space.

They work for themselves, yet do not see themselves as "builders." Their dreams strike the Entrepreneur as pedestrian. They do not crave a billion-dollar market cap or to amass a legion of fans. They simply want to do work they are proud of, make good money, and own their time.

But call the Misfit a glorified Employee, and you would be dead wrong. 

Betting on yourself takes courage: no steady paycheck. No benefits package. No guarantee of success. 

This is the definition of guts.

And yet, without the Employee's automatic network of colleagues or the Entrepreneur's elite cadre of fellow "builders," the Misfit can feel alone and shaky in their quest for success and fulfillment.

That is why Band of Misfits exists: to give the independent expert—the Misfit—the growth strategy,  work-life tools, and trusted peer network to build a profitable business built around their life.

If this sounds like you:

Welcome, Misfit.