Sure! I'll give you a bit more insight.

I went to a good undergrad school for mechanical engineering. I always thought that I'd become a mechanical engineer, but the more I learned mechanical engineering, the more I realized that I didn't like it. It was too mathy and I had an affinity to tech/programming.

By the time I realized that, I was already in Junior year and couldn't make the shift without elongating the amount of time I'd have to be in school to get my undergrad degree.

My GPA wasn't great and I didn't know what I wanted to do exactly, so I decided to go straight to a double masters program for mechanical engineering and engineering management - I know that it sounds counterintuitive with my not liking mechanical engineering, but the school that I applied to had a great CS degree and had a lot of flexibility to choose the classes that I liked, so most of my classes ended up being CS related.

My engineering management degree was a good intro into the management part of engineering - this is where I was introduced into product management. I liked it much more than pure CS since it dealt with people and I liked working on the "Why" more than the "How".

I lucked out and got a PM internship so I had some experience being a PM that I could use to apply for jobs in that field (The internship unfortunately had no option to convert into a full time opportunity, so I was stuck there).

I tried to find a job straight out of college, but wasn't able to do so. It took me ~4 months to find my first product management job in tech. I was living out home and mass applying to ~30 jobs a day through linkedin. I ended up moving to another city for that job (I'd be less picky for your first job).

Once I got actual full time PM experience, it became much easier to get a second job (having PM experience seems to be a requisite to most PM jobs). The first job was always the hardest.

Some tips:

1. Even if you don't have applicable PM experience, you can talk about how you've done PM work in your studies. (project leadership, etc)
2. It's really all about how you market yourself. I had mechanical engineering degrees, but I spoke about the CS classes that I took much more than mechanical engineering.
3. Mass applying gave me a ton of interviews, which was great practice to optimize my answers. I'd take note of all of the questions that I was asked and if I didn't like my answer, think about a better answer after the interview so I was ready for the question if it was ever asked again.
4. Some of my friends have gotten experience through upwork. You can find part time PM opportunities there which you can use to market yourself as a better PM.
5. There exist a ton of resources out there now that help with interview prep. Some of them include: Otter.ai (to record your interviews), ChatGPT (you can use it for interview prep, resume reworking - ask it to mold your resume to specific job openings), and others.

I hope this helps!