Do you like your job? Would you recommend it? Work/life balance? Salary?

in. bought my CAPM exam but havent tested yet.

project managers are useless chitheads who drain the life out of SWEs

Do you like your job? Yeh
Would you recommend it? Yeh
Work/life balance? Very good
Salary? better than top 10% in UK

To be a good project manager you have to be capabale of delegating things and accepting when things go wrong.

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You have a bachelors/ certs?

Project Manger in Construction for a subcontractor, manage about 5 million in work a year, projecting 10 mill 2023
Do you like your job? More days than not
Would you recommend it? Are you high IQ? Able to solve problems quickly and efficiently? Then yes.
Work Life Balance? Have posted her before but do about 20 hours of planned work, 5 of "putting out fires" the rest I am mostly goofin off.
Salary? After full perk package about $150k a year. Not bad for 25 hours a week.

General Contractor PM's work about 3 times as much as me for the same salary though. I've been headhunted a few times and would never switch for less than 300k a year. Also no Bachelors, just 11 years' experience at this point. I know its virtually impossible to become a PM without a degree now. The colleges all teach how to properly cover ones ass even if it means hurting relationships.
I can't speak intelligently on Project Managers in different industries though.

my coffee is cold, pleb

Not my title, but I do a lot of project management in my job.

I'd recommend being organized, good at multi-tasking, picking up the phone when required since it's usually more efficient. Get ready to collaborate with a ton of different people and have a lot of responsibility for things to go smoothly.

I've also worked with other project managers. The women are clearly more organized. But your team is everything. Like any job, how competent your team is makes all the difference, but even more so with PM.

You'll likely have to learn in house software to help you manage your day to day.

Pay is typically good and pretty competitive. But these days, it's becoming pretty average as well. For the amount of stress, I'm not sure I'd want that job, but it is good pay when all it typically requires is a Bachelor's.

I'm a "Project Controls Manager"...currently managing $310M worth of projects & schedules (7 different sites) for a decent sized large Commercial Prime Contracting Company. I work directly with the onsite Project Managers and Directors and I do not want to do what they do.

Was asked if I would be interested in transitioning into on site management....said hell no. I would do it for a smaller company, but JFC our PM's & Directors get run into the ground. No work life balance....they're the type of guys who are defined by what they do, would rather be at work than at home with family or they have no family. Salary ranges from 150k-300k for PM's depending on project and experience....for cost of living reference, these jobs are in Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Cupertino and Puerto Rico. I don't want their stress, I don't want to manage people (have done it before), I don't want the heat they get from both sides (client and our company) and I don't want my life to be consumed by the job.

As I have progressed and grown in my position I am getting pulled more and more into a chitty work/life balance and the last thing I want right now is for that to be worse. I work from home, but because of that I am expected to "always be available" especially with working different time zones. My job is starting to suck, but I'm doing really well in the company's eyes. I live in the middle of Georgia, get paid really good money for my area and am expected to travel to each site once a quarter. Depending on what happens with raises/bonus's this year....I might be on the hunt for a new gig.

Construction Project Manager for telecommunications

Love my job
Work from home
Travel alot
Pay could be better, making six figures though
Some times I don’t need to do much, other days i’m working a lot…all depends how many fires that need to be put out
Feel like an adult babysitter/counselor

Can someone neg this guy, I'll accept it if it goes wrong.

I have worked in IT a LONG time and have worked with more IT project managers than i can count. Like many jobs, the bad ones will blame everything on the techs and engineers etc. the good ones are worth their weight in gold. Especially if management backs them up on customer service decisions etc. unfortunately its a job where 80-90% of them are absolutely worthless and the only reason that they are still employed is 80% of projects will finish themselves or fail/get dropped midway anyways.

Every project manager I have met is not educated well and gets paid crap. They do seem to be mostly extroverts and get along with most people. To be fair, I don't speak to a lot of them as I am in finance.

I consult in project controls and management in heavy industrial construction, mainly oil & gas and mining

Not sure if I even want a full blown PM role though considering I already make like $300k doing this with less stress

I've done numerous projects and program PMO related engagements and also as a delivery lead where you are the hook to ensure delivery timeline is met with minimal defects, and I am only speaking for the software development line of work. It can get stressful and you do feel the pressure. There will be periods where you are working 1 months straight without weekends, pulling 12hr/day. There will also be periods where you don't have much to do, so it is ebbs and flows.

I personally enjoy the controlled chaos condition, especially when you are in the technology consulting space. Always exciting problems to solve so it is rarely boring. But consulting is not for everyone.

The pay is good, I am at 170k/year. I work from home 80 percent of the time, and only go on the client's site when there's all hands.

I have a master's degree in engineering & management.

lol don't hate.

Can't believe the salaries in North America. Much higher than I make in the UK.

Atleast I don't have to live in America.