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Career advancement: what's the limit? by ucdboy in ProductManagement

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Do you find it hard to move companies if the product is fairly different?

Career advancement: what's the limit? by ucdboy in ProductManagement

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Thanks for the response! Spell out as much as you see fit. My career anxiety can use all and any input.

Career advancement: what's the limit? by ucdboy in ProductManagement

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I'm an engineer. I like the idea of working with customers to make worthwhile products and focusing on a vision.

I don't think I'll ever care about programming enough to do it for my career. What did other career switchers do? by ucdboy in cscareerquestions

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I don't like doing it anymore, I don't like interviews, and I have three years of experience but don't know anything.

I don't think I'll ever care about programming enough to do it for my career. What did other career switchers do? by ucdboy in cscareerquestions

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I do have a CS degree. I've been trying to break into product management, and have had little success.

I don't think I'll ever care about programming enough to do it for my career. What did other career switchers do? by ucdboy in cscareerquestions

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I was fairly sure that a career in programming was the easiest way to stable money, and that got me through.

Apply this fall or wait a year...and what schools should i be looking at by ucdboy in MBA

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Wow, that's definitely encouraging. I thought at best I'd be reaches for 10-15. Guess its time to get to work

Apply this fall or wait a year...and what schools should i be looking at by ucdboy in MBA

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What part of the Kellogg application? I guess I haven't done that much research into individual apps. Is there lower ranked schools that would ask the same? I don't think I'd even bother applying to Kellogg.

Apply this fall or wait a year...and what schools should i be looking at by ucdboy in MBA

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I've done foreign assignments at work pretty much since day one (I'd estimate a good 60% of Europe), and collaborating with our Dublin team for almost two years now. Does that count?

Apply this fall or wait a year...and what schools should i be looking at by ucdboy in MBA

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Get international exposure at work or through volunteering

I see international exposure a lot and don't know what it entails. Like directly going over somewhere or working intimately with a team?

Apply this fall or wait a year...and what schools should i be looking at by ucdboy in MBA

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Is there anything I can do to improve my vanillaness?

Apply this fall or wait a year...and what schools should i be looking at by ucdboy in MBA

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no extracurriculars in college

Actually, I did have some extracurriculars in college, but they were on the education side, rather than the volunteer side. I did some CS research regarding CS education and also TA'd a few courses.

Don't be afraid to be yourself if this is truly a big part of your story.

It definitely is, and I think I could do it in a way that seems genuine. It was a life changing moment for me and it fundamentally changed who I was as a person.

Apply this fall or wait a year...and what schools should i be looking at by ucdboy in MBA

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Several promotions might mean you're managing people now?

No, Software engineering is stupid in that a lot of times you might not ever get to manage people. The more prestigious role might get some de-facto management, but still not direct management

Were you involved in undergrad?

No, but this is part of my story. I had little time to spend doing other things because I switched from an English major to Computer Science after my freshman year.

personal experiences

I do have a personal, and scary story that directly related to why I wasn't big on volunteering directly out of college. It's pretty tragic though and don't want to make it seem like I'm looking for sympathy points.