gr1zzlybe4r

I have a hunch that I'm not the only product manager here that's recently been laid off. What are all of you trying to do for you next role?

I'm having an internal debate about whether I want to continue in product, as it feels like a lot of my success was potentially driven by landing in good environment instead of being "good" at product work itself. It's also been sobering to realize that as a PM you're somewhat dependent on others to create a lot of stuff (i.e., you can't code enough to make your own site and potentially not enough connections to start your own business). So, I'm curious what other PMs out there are thinking about doing.

My general background is:

  - 5 years in product at fintech companies (credit cards, credit, and BaaS)
  - 2 years in management consulting
  - Can code enough to make a crummy CRUD app in Rails, some data ETL stuff in Python, and I know SQL well

This makes my potential next options (that I've thought of, hoping to see if there are others):

  - Another product role
  - Sales engineer
  - Bumping up my coding skills enough to be a dev
  - Attempting to do "solopreneur" type work