I’ve been meeting a ton of younger / newer PMs, and when I ask them why they’re interested in the field, they give these canned responses about enjoying working in teams, influencing without authority, enjoying legos when they were kids... 😌 Growing up in Nigeria, the common joke was that you could either be a lawyer, doctor, engineer, or disgrace to the family. Naturally, we all had canned responses for one of the non-disgrace options. But hadn’t really thought about what we wanted for ourselves.