Goals? Okay deep breath
I want to be a Product Manager not just for the title or LinkedIn flex (though let’s not lie, those are cute too) but because after years of feeling stuck between “am I technical enough?” and “am I business-y enough?” I finally realized I’m both. I live for the chaos that lives between user stories and spreadsheets Figma frames and revenue reports. I love people. I love understanding them, observing them, obsessing over what makes them tick. I love solving problems that actually matter. And unhingedly? I love making money. Like give me a messy problem and a chance to turn it into profit and I will eat that up for breakfast
I want to make my parents so proud that everything I’ve done wrong every “she’s too emotional” every detour every disaster-class decision just fades. I want to be so good they forget to be mad. I want to buy them gifts and vacations and random things they’d never ask for because they were too busy giving me the world in small pieces. I want to spoil them the way I spam lovebomb everyone I care about
And if we’re being real? I want a life that’s big. Like capital B BIG. I want to travel not just on a two-day weekend itinerary with seven alarms but really travel. I want to live in cities that don’t speak my language cry in hostels fall in love with foreign grocery stores work out of cafes that serve burnt coffee with great wifi. I want a life that makes me feel like the main character in an indie movie with motion blur and soft background jazz
I want my work to matter my people to stay and my passport to fill. I want my career to be loud joyful exhausting in the best way. I want to build things teams products dreams. I want to walk into a room a call a crisis and have people go “Thank god she’s here”
And if that makes me too much dramatic idealistic whatever cool. Let them talk. I’ll be too busy shipping features planning my next solo trip and sending random gifts to my friends at 1:47 AM
That’s the dream
That’s the goal
Because I’m not just trying to live my life
I’m trying to LIVE it
