While we had different paths, so much of this rings true. I remember being at Schwab and looking around at all the empty desks after the layoffs through 2002-2004. And when I finally left and went to a career counselor, she asked if I still wanted to be a Product Manager.
"What's a Product Manager?" I asked.
"It's what you've been doing for the last four years."
Had never called it that, but I've been calling it that now for the last 20 years!
I hear a variation of this far more than anything else. I've helped numerous people with masters in computer science or something related move over to product management jobs, but I've yet to work with or hire anyone who's said they always wanted to be a product manager and then went to college for a masters in product management to prove it. I didn't realize there were as many masters programs as there are until I was researching this article.
What a great story! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Ron. Glad you enjoyed it.
While we had different paths, so much of this rings true. I remember being at Schwab and looking around at all the empty desks after the layoffs through 2002-2004. And when I finally left and went to a career counselor, she asked if I still wanted to be a Product Manager.
"What's a Product Manager?" I asked.
"It's what you've been doing for the last four years."
Had never called it that, but I've been calling it that now for the last 20 years!
I hear a variation of this far more than anything else. I've helped numerous people with masters in computer science or something related move over to product management jobs, but I've yet to work with or hire anyone who's said they always wanted to be a product manager and then went to college for a masters in product management to prove it. I didn't realize there were as many masters programs as there are until I was researching this article.