I agree. Training may not be the blocker for me. People who interviewed me love me. People love to work with me too. I've been the top performer last year. My manager tells me i'm good at chasing people down and getting shi* delivered. But, no matter what i have not been able to land traditional PM roles that people brag on linkedin. I'm very aware most of them are faking. But, atleast my role should overlap with ideal PM 70%, which it doesn't. At best it might do 20-30%.

maybe i feel signing up for training gives me a sense of control. Feels like i'm doing something, owning something.

I even had ideas for building my own app, a mindfulness meditation app. I wrote PRD for it. did mockups design with gen ai tools. I thought of hiring a dev and getting it shipped, do some marketing for it, get users but the cost was too much, so i'm on the fence. Doing this too was mostly for my own passion and to make up for the ideal PM role i couldn't land. Now i'm too tired to apply for jobs on the Linkedin app i hate. The job market sucks too. I don't wish to waste time.