[Hidden-tech] Seeking Program/Product Management position

[Mary Malmros]

Peter Degen-Portnoy wrote:
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> Hi Marcia,
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> Thanks for the opportunity to clarify.
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> I always devote myself 100% to the efforts I accept.  In seeking a 
> full-time, high-level position, I am looking to contribute significantly 
> to my employers bottom line.  In the past, I have generated value to my 
> employer in excess of 40X my salary.
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> My long-term plans are to make my company successful, but there is no 
> time line set for this.  Right now I need to balance the immediate and 
> long-term needs.  Operating at a senior level best leverages by ability 
> to bring tremendous value to a company and, ironically, best meets my 
> immediate and long-term needs.
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> I hope that helps to clarify my request.

Honestly?  It read like formulaic interview-spew to me.  If I were 
looking for a program/product manager, and I'd read your original 
message, I too would be concerned about your level of commitment, and no 
amount of interview-talk would dissuade me.

But it may have been a mis-phrasing on your part.  You said, "accepting 
a position with a company as [a product/program manager] would fulfill 
the funding needs and actually allow more time to continue developing my 
company."  I think a lot hinges on what your "funding needs" are and 
what "continue developing" means.  If you were planning to put your 
company on the back burner for now -- that is, not be actively doing 
business -- while you saved money so you'd have a cash cushion for down 
the road, when you wanted to run your own business full time, and at the 
same time develop your business plan/services concept in your spare time 
as you work at a full-time job, I think that's great.  That's how 
companies get started.  If, on the other hand, you were planning to keep 
running your company, actively spending money and seeking work...yeah, 
I'd be very concerned about that if I were hiring you.  Product manager 
is a full-time job and then some; I do it and manage to keep the lawn 
mowed and have some hobbies, but running a business on the side would be 
a bad idea.

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Mary Malmros						malmros at verizon.net
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