Giving Compass' Take:

• Veterans are learning the skills to get back into the workforce after returning home. But rather than preparing for a 9-5 job, they are learning the skills to become entrepreneurs. 

• What will make transitioning into the economy of entrepreneurship potentially more difficult? 

• Read about philanthropists helping veterans re-integrate into the workforce.

Not everyone has the work ethic to be an entrepreneur — the long hours, the commitment, the need to focus on the long game. But Travis Stanley-Jones thinks one segment of the population is particularly well suited to the startup grind: military veterans.

“Veterans don’t have a 9-to-5 mentality. You’ll have months where you just work from 7 p.m. to 4 a.m. on night ops. That is a normal course of business,” he said. “It’s not a 9-to-5 job, and entrepreneurship is not a 9-to-5 job.

Veterans’ openness to “putting in the work for minimal pay with a long-term perspective makes veterans a better bet,” said Stanley-Jones, who served with the U.S. Marine Corps for six years in the reserve, active duty and officer training.

And now there’s an organization that’s ready to help military veterans in Washington state who are eager to try their hand in business. Bunker Labs set up shop in the University of Washington’s CoMotion Labs @ Startup Hall. The goal of the nonprofit is to help people transition out of the military and into entrepreneurial jobs in the private sector.

Bunker Labs is a “one-stop shop where people can come and find the right resources,” said Johannes Schonberg, a co-founder and executive director of the Seattle chapter. Schonberg served in the U.S. Navy.

Read the full article about veterans in entrepreneurship by Lisa Stiffler at GeekWire.