To play devils advocate, the oft-coveted Product Manager exit seems kind of boring. Anyone who has actually made the exit agree/disagree?

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If you elaborated on why you find the role boring - we could provide more reassurance of why those aspects are or aren’t boring. Otherwise these generalizations aren’t great discussion starting points

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Jesus Christ people I just want to hear some first hand experience

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Let’s start with an example: PM for Slack. What would be fun? Boring? Challenging? Irritating?

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It varies wildly from one role to another. But being a PM in an early stage startup is super fun

Definitely sounds fun. In your opinion what’s the best way for a consultant to land a PM gig at an early stage start-up?

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You don't need to play devil's advocate. It isn't surprising that at least some people think a given job seems kind of boring.

I do know a good friend who’s a PM at Amazon really disliking the PM job because it’s mainly herding cats, so there’s that.

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Depends if you know exactly which product you’re working on (which you don’t if it’s a rotational e.g. google APM)

Do you think it’s important to feel passionate about the product? Or is it ok to just be alright with it? It doesn’t seem like there are a ton of truly spectacular products outside of top tech

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