You just described me. I don’t think I’d ever linked this particular part of my personality to why I enjoy and am good at being a product manager… I just always thought of it as enjoying being IT-adjacent without missing my saga* of being in IT. But your reasoning makes so much sense!
It might also be why I feel like a different person at work than in my personal life—more confident, more outgoing… because in my personal life I feel like I’m on the margins of every groups I’ve ever been a part of, but at work I found that to be an important place to be.
*”Saga” was an autocorrect that I didn’t notice until after I posted this, but now I don’t know what I meant to write. And honestly, “saga” feels accurate enough so whatever, I’m leaving it.
You just described me. I don’t think I’d ever linked this particular part of my personality to why I enjoy and am good at being a product manager… I just always thought of it as enjoying being IT-adjacent without missing my saga* of being in IT. But your reasoning makes so much sense!
It might also be why I feel like a different person at work than in my personal life—more confident, more outgoing… because in my personal life I feel like I’m on the margins of every groups I’ve ever been a part of, but at work I found that to be an important place to be.
*”Saga” was an autocorrect that I didn’t notice until after I posted this, but now I don’t know what I meant to write. And honestly, “saga” feels accurate enough so whatever, I’m leaving it.