PM Burnout Calculator

Looking for PM jobs on LinkedIn and being forced to go through 5 pages of Aha! Product Success Manager openings?

Seeing PM Influencers on social media bragging about working 2 hours a day making $100k+?

Astroturfing by PM ‘coaches’ taking advantage of people trying to break in?

Visiting r/ProductManagement and seeing the weekly “Does anyone else experience imposter syndrome?” thread?

Participating in said weekly thread?

Dealing with prima donna engineers who think they’re god’s gift to man?

PMs who act [or are forced to act] as glorified secretaries?

The flood of generalist PMs?

The flood of ex-consultants/i-bankers/MBAs?

Dealing with engineers who refuse to respect non-technical PMs?

Going to Product conferences and listening to speakers glorify their role?

Seeing your Head of Product present your work as theirs?

Companies treating Product Managers as Project Managers?

Companies retitling Project Managers to Product Managers to fill the candidate pipeline?

Having a father-in-law suggest online PMP courses since you’ve been out of work?

Companies that have no idea what Product even does but hire for it anyway?

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Hiring Junior PMs and expecting them to handle senior responsibilities?

Hearing PMs call themselves the “CEO of the Product”?

Finding yourself at a feature factory?

Being powerless to stop a terrible product or feature launch?

Management calls all the shots and you're treated as a robot?

Asking your boss “What does success look like?” and getting a non-answer?

Being promised by sales that the next product release would include impossible features?

Having domain experts look down on you for not having decades of experience?

Client Services asking you to hop on a quick call to fix a bug?

Always having to put on a happy face, even though everything is burning?

Getting random LinkedIn messages from soon to be college grads asking how to break into Product?

Finding out your PM coworker lied about their PM experience?

“Follow my newsletter for tips on becoming a more effective product leader”?

Opening up your backlog and seeing hundreds of tickets?

“My Slack was set to ‘Do Not Disturb.’” “I know, but I have a question.”?

Priorities shifting because the CEO read a Business Insider article?

It takes six months to fully ramp up. You have 2 weeks?

“But have you considered this edge case that only has a .001% chance of happening?”

“Does anyone have resources to learn more about dark patterns? Why yes, I work as a mobile gaming PM”?

Going to Product conferences and seeing all the booths hosted by business analytics startups?

Feeling overwhelmed by the constant need to juggle between multiple project management tools that don't meet your needs?

Feeling helpless when a product or feature you didn't believe in was pushed to launch?

Struggling with colleagues who disregard your input because it's not technical?

Feeling frustrated by priority shifts after the CEO gets inspired by a new article?

Stressed by the expectation to ramp up on complex product knowledge in an unrealistically short time?

Dealing with sales or client services overpromising features to clients without consulting you?