Sometimes really doubt PM as a profession!
Sometimes feel that PM is a fake profession. We do not have clear requirements that are the same for all companies - some companies want you to be design-oriented, others data-oriented, or technical. Some want you to be the “voice” of customers, while in others you work on feature factories as a good old blue-collar boy.
There are no clear hard skills other than reading and writing. There are numerous debates - product sense vs data sense, execution vs intuition, first principles thinking vs frameworks. And my favorite one - leading without authority.
Somewhere, the product is responsible for the business and P&L, and somewhere you are responsible for grilling the steak of your stakeholder. In the company next door, the product manager moves tasks in Jira and calls the elders in case of any problem.
The variability of the role makes it really a funny & intriguing situation.
50% of my time goes into project management bcoz previous to me the engineers ne raita fela k rakha tha. My dream was not to ask someone the status of their Jira ticket. Sidha bolo competitors ko copy marna hai. I'll happily do all the market research, growth optimization and product spec.