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If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thankfully I've only ever worked in the first environment.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago

Lucky, my first 2 dev jobs had PMs that were right out of college business majors with zero web development experience. They were just direct unfiltered conduits between the clients and devs, but with a layer of telephone game and almost no ability to day no to the clients.

It was a fucking nightmare. By the time I did get a good PM, I was pretty much burned out and started my own consultancy (since I’d been managing a small team and doing both dev and PM’s job by then anyway).