GroovyWalrus
GroovyWalrus

How being a PM lifted my family out of poverty

I am from a lower income family. My father is a blue collar worker and my mom is a home-maker. I have a few siblings.

Entire life my parents made close to ~6L in a year combined. They let me do anything and never pressured me into pursuing a career that I did not want to, especially as a woman.

They gave me 100% freedom, support, and never once asked me to take care of them after I made it.

Like most Indian parents from tat background, they have no retirement fund. Every bit of money went towards food and essentials.

I went to a shit college in the middle of nowhere for my Bachelors. Chose my degree in CSE and grinded tf out. Got into PM after a few years and never looked back.

My parents can’t tell the difference between Product Management and Project Management. It doesn't even matter anymore. I am prepared to take care of my parents but more importantly I plan to take care of my sister's higher education so that she can decide a career without having to worry about ROI/LTV of her course fees because of loans.

It has been a journey of a lifetime till now. I can only be grateful for what has happened and continue working hard.

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SparklyBiscuit
SparklyBiscuit
Tekion10mo

Your colleague and her wife issue got resolved?

MagicalQuokka
MagicalQuokka

Lmao, I just remembered that. Now even I'm very curious

ZestyDonut
ZestyDonut

Arey bhai 😂 gazab audience hai

SqueakyWalrus
SqueakyWalrus
Student10mo

So what if your parents don't know the difference 🤷🏽‍♂️
Even I don't know the difference, no one cares about PM

BubblyBoba
BubblyBoba

@InsidiousBruh Kudos 👏 for Lifting your family up financially amd more power to you. As your parents don't have retirement fund, please get a term plan for you and health insurance for them. Best Wishes

SnoozyBiscuit
SnoozyBiscuit
Amazon10mo

+1 This is extremely imp

SquishyLlama
SquishyLlama
Acko10mo

@InsidiousBruh ^Extremely important! Acko has some amazing health insurance plans (and recently launched life insurance, rolling out it all users in a week or so) so please be on the lookout! :)

*and I’m not just saying this because I work in insurance. Feel free to check the market/ditto and see what’s right for your parivaar.

SparklyNoodle
SparklyNoodle

6L in whole life or 6L per year, that's not a bad number of per year

ZestyRaccoon
ZestyRaccoon
TCS10mo

Great to hear your story, very noob here.. What is the difference in roles of product manager and project manager? Also which company do you work in it you don't mind me asking?

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