How often do you change industries or do you typically change jobs within the same industry?

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Always a PM but I switch industries with every new job I take.

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Personally I’ve changed industries two times in a 25 year period went from being a business owner, to different verticals of real estate to IT. But I’m more inclined to complete a micro change example being staying in IT but the focus going from retail to hospitality and going from the business side to the vendor side.

Depends on how you define the “industry”.

Technically, I’ve been in tech / software development the whole time. But I worked on products related to advertising, transportation, and sports software. Under the hood, the tech stack is very similar. But thinking about what the consumer sees, they would all be considered different industries.

If you are passionate about it, I won't change it at all. Getting into specific industry like healthcare is tough.

My first PM role was insurance software, then market research software, then test analysis software& services, back to MR, then to fintech and then my first entre’ into consumer software. 3-5 years each. Always staying in PM/PMM.

Every time I change a job I also change industry.

Banking, hospitality, enterprise software, fashion tech in chronological order and every 18 months.

Being PO, PM, Senior PM, Director of Product respectively.

I would love to stay in the same industry, especially given that my previous experience would make me vastly more valuable the second time, but it is what it is.

I put the blame on the HR people who are mostly dumb and to the hiring managers who afraid for themselves, for not utilise me even remotely to my full potential...

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