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When you work in tech
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No shade to any comrades here in that role. I'm just venting because 1) I hate my job and am officially "quiet quitting," and 2) I've sent out over 120 job applications today and I'm fuckign tired.
I have seen lot's of fail sons and fail daughters end up in the PM role. If you dig into their past, they have an ivy league degree, come from money, are connected to an investor/shareholder in some weird way, and are totally incompetent.
That said, I've also worked with some really good PMs that made my job as a programmer/capitalist task master (manager of programmers) easier.
edit: Just realized OP is referencing Project Manager, not Product. Although, after 10 years in this industry I still don't understand the difference.
Being a PM type role, I feel constantly pressured to show I am not one of the worthless ones. People go in assuming you are an asshole useless empty suit and it takes so much work to build a reputation you are not every time you move groups or teams.
/SMH
I hate loving what I do, but knowing I am surrounded by people failing to serve the people we say we exist to serve.