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January 18, 2007 |
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The irony to this is that I couldn't find "project manager" in this list of careers. I was previously a producer and enjoyed it very much. The position and career of a 'project manager' is far less emotional and adventurous. It's pretty much what Indiana Jones would become if the Museum cut his funding. Being a project manager is being a producer without the fedora and leather jacket.
All humor aside, being a project manager is a very deliberate position where the PM is responsible only for the scheduling of resources and the monitoring of budget. Of course, any PM will describe a variety of other benefits; mitgation of risk, reduction of uncertainty, enabling expectations - but I believe the success of any personal, non-professional relationship involves those factors as well. Your wife or girlfriend doesn't enjoy surprises because they happen everyday; your job wouldn't either.
I was a producer for over 8 years and loved every stressed-out minute of it. I was creative, multi-tasking, and producing some amazing interactive pieces. The money was nominal and I could produce however much my physical being could handle - some months that was a lot. But I was burned out and my career definitely had some low points where I needed to recharge.
As a PM, I manage huge projects; some parts of them beyond the scope of my understanding and definitely impossible to do on my own. Instead of managing one or two teams on separate projects, I manage one team on many projects. The critical difference now is that as a producer, you have to be there. As a PM, the resources interact around you.
I understand, at least in the New England market, that being a PM is a step up, my set of skills have definitely matured and become far sharper than the shoot-from-the-hip work that I did as a producer. But there's less of the highs and crashes that I associated with being a producer. I'm sure I'll stop missing them sooner or later. |
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