I’m looking to pivot to program management. I have 13 yoe in finance (commercial banking) and a few of those years were spent as an banking center operations manager. Should I focus more large banks for employment? I know tech companies pay better, but I’m nervous about all the layoffs with tech companies.

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I think large banks are usually a solid and steady option, even with the economic downturn. That being said despite layoffs in tech that industry is still growing at a fairly accelerated rate, so it's not impossible for you to have success there. If you need to bat on the safe side I would go with the banks, but if tech interests you more than take the big swing! Sorry about the baseball metaphors, I coach a softball league.

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