What's everyone's advice for someone with a non-technical background who wants to get into Product Management/Product Marketing/Program Management? I'm currently on year two as a sales development rep. I've learned a good amount about the analytics/cloud space but can't code at all.
I'm thinking of sticking out another year on this job, then trying to get my MBA (which I will be able to pay for). I'm also considering taking a coding bootcamp -- I know a guy who majored in Public Policy and became a sales engineer after taking one. Alternatively I can just try to get progressively better at sales. OTE (overall salary) where I am for a decent Account Executive (closing salesman) is around 100k. More senior guys will make around 200k which isn't bad at all. This is SaaS sales.
STEM is cool if it's what you want to do and you play your cards right. My dad's friend's daughter is making 300k out of the gate as an AI specialist at a big company. That's easily the best starting salary I've ever heard of. My Electrical Engineer buddy (who has a masters) will be making 150k out of the gate, with stock options on top. But on the flipside, I know biologists and chemists making $18 an hour in labs. Plenty of biotech people aren't making anything special out of the gate either.
On average, STEM is absolutely better than non-STEM, but the upper tiers of non-STEM (SaaS sales, some types of consulting, etc) absolutely crush the middle and low tiers of STEM in my opinion. To be fair I'm a fresh college grad so my perspective is more oriented towards starting/low-level salaries.
I'm thinking of sticking out another year on this job, then trying to get my MBA (which I will be able to pay for). I'm also considering taking a coding bootcamp -- I know a guy who majored in Public Policy and became a sales engineer after taking one. Alternatively I can just try to get progressively better at sales. OTE (overall salary) where I am for a decent Account Executive (closing salesman) is around 100k. More senior guys will make around 200k which isn't bad at all. This is SaaS sales.
STEM is cool if it's what you want to do and you play your cards right. My dad's friend's daughter is making 300k out of the gate as an AI specialist at a big company. That's easily the best starting salary I've ever heard of. My Electrical Engineer buddy (who has a masters) will be making 150k out of the gate, with stock options on top. But on the flipside, I know biologists and chemists making $18 an hour in labs. Plenty of biotech people aren't making anything special out of the gate either.
On average, STEM is absolutely better than non-STEM, but the upper tiers of non-STEM (SaaS sales, some types of consulting, etc) absolutely crush the middle and low tiers of STEM in my opinion. To be fair I'm a fresh college grad so my perspective is more oriented towards starting/low-level salaries.