Vast Nothingness
The purpose of this page is to keep track of my journey as a young and wildly inexperienced product manager. The title has nothing to do with the post. I just found it compelling. If you come across this, I hope you find it somewhat interesting.
Let me begin with a brief introduction. I am an inexperienced writer that loves writing. I also have this craving to know almost everything. I feel unnecessary pressure from myself to know about every topic that goes on in a room. Some might say that is an attention/validation seeking habit and in some form maybe it is, but only if I felt the need to share my opinion always. For me right now, it plays out more as a source of power. After all, Knowledge is Power.
My journey as a product manager (in training) began roughly two weeks after I got a new job at this Startup FinTech in November 2020. Eleven months earlier in December 2019, I had met the founder on the staircase of the office building where our other jobs are. [I have another job as a Process Engineering Intern in an Oil and Gas servicing firm. My boss is the CEO of the company on the third floor.]
What were the chances that I, a clueless fresh graduate interested in Finance and Technology, would meet someone profound in Finance and Technology? Our conversations were intelligent. He later became (somewhat) a mentor (I will refer to him as that from this point forward).
After COVID hit, the business began to slow down for the oil and gas servicing firm. Work trickled in and, I found myself feeling “unengaged” (this is the worst feeling for me). After a couple of conversations with my mentor, he presented me with the opportunity to start as a support intern while gaining product management training. I felt it was quite the leap from process engineer to product manager but, a significant step towards my quest to understand the world of Finance, Tech and FinTech. So, I accepted.
I’ve been working there for roughly six weeks. I still feel a bit out of depth. But I believe I will survive and dare I say, thrive. I want to do something meaningful with this opportunity although, I haven’t been as proactive as I should be hence my decision to start this blog. I have always gotten a better perspective of things when I write. I find it very therapeutic. And my productivity improves.
If you find this, do enjoy. I intend to give more detailed write-ups on my experiences and the things I learn as I go through this journey in this, vast nothingness? Then again, what do I know, I’ve only been a Product Manager for one month
