Hey Grapeviners,
I need some serious help.
Bit about myself - just graduated this month and working as an APM at a seed stage startup. I have 1.5 years of product experience and 3 years of overall experience.
Lately, not sure why but I am loving what engineers do. Closely working with them, and I guess it's nostalgic for myself. Because I did coding for 6 months and moved on for some reason. So, I understand how tech actually works. Have got good feedback regarding this.
At the same time, I am not really finding the true value of what I am doing everyday. Feels a void inside.
Also, I am not able to discuss all these things in person with someone, because I fear that they will judge me after doing internships for 3 years, I still haven't figured out my career. Such a loser I am.
I have been thinking about starting coding again and maybe switching to a coding job in the next 6 months maybe. But again it would be tough for me as I only got weekends for me to learn all this stuff.
What do you all experienced folks suggest? What should I do?
Please comment if you can help🙏
Quick question It has been less than a month since you graduated and you have 1.5 yrs of Product Experience and 3 years of overall experience. Can you please elaborate?
I feel you are just at your starting stage of your career. Doing 3 years internship might have taught you a lot, but I’m not sure how much this will be counted as your experience. So don’t think too much about being stuck on one area. There’s still enough time for you to switch to a tech role.
Here’s my suggestion:
There are two advantages:
Eventually when you get confident on switching to a tech role, you can look for opportunities and grab them.
Thank You for explaining this. But I still have the same question. Should I learn tech and still work in products or so I learn tech and eventually move to tech.
I’m assuming you have no immediate tech opportunities to work on. My suggestion is to continue working on product, while looking for work on tech. Eventually you’ll hop on to tech job with due diligence.
So the kinda tech you are talking soon gonna get vanished but if you are still planing to be in tech you gotta be a pro at some domain thats my advise to you
People: switching to PM from engineer 🫠 OP: 😎
I feel first you need to figure out, if you are good at coding. Go build something and ask ppl to give you feedback on it. If you conclude that you do indeed love coding and are good at it you should look for career change.
Also it would be good to understand which parts in your current job you don’t like. What can be done to change that?
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I need some serious help.
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Lately, n...
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