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What happens to project managers?
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Date: January 30th, 2017 9:43 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker Do they continue to move up th chain or do they just "manage projects" for like 30 years? Jfc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32504277) |
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Date: January 30th, 2017 9:46 PM Author: Slate liquid oxygen toilet seat Try 15 years.
They're a dime a dozen. Most are just college grads with 60th percentile computer skills and some lingo.
The best PMs are former engineers. They have a brighter future.
The bright young things are often overstaffed to make them dispensable. |
Date: January 30th, 2017 9:44 PM Author: racy flushed ceo They become product managers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32504293) |
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Date: January 30th, 2017 9:45 PM Author: floppy piazza they ritually suicide selves when their project is over (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32504307) |
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Date: January 30th, 2017 10:10 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32504562) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2017 7:10 PM Author: Burgundy Legal Warrant if only (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32530989) |
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Date: January 30th, 2017 9:45 PM Author: rose national love of her life SOOOO many jobs I wonder this about.
For example, Account Executives. |
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Date: June 16th, 2017 6:45 PM Author: orchid razzmatazz indirect expression school That just means sales. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#33576159) |
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Date: June 16th, 2017 6:46 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#33576166) |
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Date: June 16th, 2017 6:49 PM Author: Razzle Home Travel Guidebook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#33576189) |
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Date: June 16th, 2017 6:46 PM Author: Violent theatre striped hyena They begin writing science fiction and go on to successful literary careers after being blinded by a client. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#33576163) |
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Date: January 30th, 2017 9:49 PM Author: Mind-boggling sienna mother parlor Just like any corporate ladder job really. Some of them move up and become senior program managers and shit -- basically managers of a whole series of projects that fit together. They actually seem to in general have decent exit ops because they're exposed to a lot of diff roles and shit they can BS and act like they know how to do it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32504352) |
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Date: January 30th, 2017 9:51 PM Author: At-the-ready menage tcr. Otherwise, they can leave for many consulting type roles (I've seen some specialize in six sigma type shit and pursue that). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32504374) |
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Date: January 30th, 2017 9:54 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker This is my future (non skills based)
Should I Abandon this ship |
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Date: January 30th, 2017 10:11 PM Author: Exhilarant insecure incel Usually a mommy-track job (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32504572) |
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Date: January 30th, 2017 10:13 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker Uggg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32504584) |
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Date: January 30th, 2017 11:03 PM Author: Histrionic reading party Usually they're scumbags hired by tech companies because CEOs don't trust ex-engineers to manage other engineers. So they often end up having important ears in their mouths, even if they have no power and unstable status.
It's a shit job if it doesn't lead to an executive position and it has the same ageism problem: at 40, you're out. The competition that you face in order to get into real management roles is different: less intelligent than engineers, but more socially skilled. |
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Date: January 30th, 2017 11:12 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker What want to change "ears in their mouths" to "ears to their mouths" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32505280) |
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Date: January 30th, 2017 11:15 PM Author: Histrionic reading party It works either way. Hard to have a tech career without being AC/DC as circumstances require. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32505311) |
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Date: January 30th, 2017 11:15 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker I didn't mean tech but thanks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32505325) |
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Date: January 31st, 2017 12:09 AM Author: plum hairless point There's a project manager character in this batch of emails I'm reviewing, and all she seems to do is forward emails to people on her team with "Gentle Reminder!!!!" in the body. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32505869) |
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Date: January 31st, 2017 12:20 AM Author: pale ape This is me. I have no real skills. I am given credit for the success of projects that I really did nothing on except tell other people to do their work on time. I have received multiple raises and promotions and am being groomed for management. The technical people who actually did the project work are twice my age and seem to get invited to far fewer happy hours with senior management than me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32505944) |
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Date: January 31st, 2017 12:23 AM Author: Pontificating round eye institution doesn't sound that bad bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32505963) |
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Date: January 31st, 2017 12:24 AM Author: pale ape Oh, I don't consider it bad. But XO certainly would. There is an obsession here with "skills", and skills might get you in the door at a new employer but don't seem to correlate much with advancement inside an employer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32505975) |
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Date: February 1st, 2017 5:44 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker How did you get a managers job then? At my firm you have to put in years as a technical analyst position to make it to manager (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32521269) |
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Date: June 16th, 2017 6:42 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#33576128) |
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Date: June 16th, 2017 6:47 PM Author: Violent theatre striped hyena (Technical guy soon to be 49) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#33576175) |
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Date: January 31st, 2017 12:26 AM Author: fantasy-prone internal respiration They're projected over the wall, their rotting corpses used to flush out the holdouts. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32505993) |
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Date: January 31st, 2017 12:59 AM Author: Cerise skinny woman Project managers never die. They live on in the project. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32506159) |
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Date: February 1st, 2017 5:43 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32521262) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2017 7:07 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32530960) |
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Date: February 2nd, 2017 7:16 PM Author: chocolate hyperventilating black woman I'm pretty much a project manager / product manager though it's kind of a hybrid role with some other more interesting shit.
My boss's boss is the Chief Marketing Officer and that's the office I'm gunning to end up in 10-15 years from now (at this company or a different one). The path there is clear enough, I think. |
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Date: February 6th, 2017 3:43 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker you do marketing? lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#32559505) |
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Date: June 16th, 2017 6:44 PM Author: Big-titted Coral Legend Become really really anal retentive people that no one likes and keeps harping. On the same things over and over (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#33576151) |
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Date: June 16th, 2017 6:45 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#33576156) |
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Date: June 16th, 2017 6:49 PM Author: Charismatic Sapphire Hall Halford Actually pretty CR career. Not sure about job security though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#33576187) |
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Date: June 16th, 2017 7:01 PM Author: Trip pit quadroon they get projectile vomited out of the workforce by age 32 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#33576279) |
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Date: June 16th, 2017 7:03 PM Author: bateful spot windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#33576293) |
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Date: October 23rd, 2017 2:21 PM Author: soggy aggressive orchestra pit water buffalo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3509861&forum_id=2#34509946) |