[anonymous3889]

Thanks, I really appreciate your thoughts. I specifically agree with

> - At the end of the day you will often ask yourself how you can simultaneously be completely burned out while also not being able to tell what the heck it is you actually did all day > - Politics. Endless politics. The higher you go, the worse it gets.

I don't work with customers as we build our own product, so we have customers instead :) And product management is still different from project management - but I think many of the things you have highlighted are pretty much the same.

I do want to get into situation in which by the end of the day/week/month I can feel that I have achieved something, I have grown, I have made a difference. While product management gives me opportunity to have really high impact long term, the days without feeling of progress just kill me

[throwaway77384]

No worries :) Your are right, a Product Manager is still different from a Project Manager, but the lines can be blurry. I was a Product Manager as well, at one point, but I felt that was even more difficult than being a Project Manager. It felt like I had all the same responsibilities as a Project Manager, but on top of everything I was supposed to be some sort Steve Jobs-esque visionary. Which I am not, when it's not my own product, as it turns out, haha.