Why do you want to become a Product Manager

Context: I kind of am (and will always be) a Software Engineer.

My curiosity shifted from how things were being built to more of a “why things are being built”. At the time I didn’t realize that the area was called Product Management. I was the internal voice of the customer – I wanted to be more than that. I had a good view of the leaves and the branches and not only did I want to look at the forest but I wanted to make sense of what I was looking at. This is why I went back to business school: to get the tools to bridge the gap between where I was and where I wanted to be.

I like the area where business meets technology and I like speaking different “languages”. Interacting with my customers, engineers, marketing, legal, finance and customer support excites me. More importantly I communicate with them "in their own language".

Here's something I found online that sums up interactions with engineers (as a PM):

If you can’t convince engineers to work on your project, you can’t convince others to join you, and you can’t convince the market.

Or in other words, if you can't bring your own engineers on board, you have no business being or wanting to be a Product Manager (the whole product vision, influencing without authority, bribing the team with donuts and doing the boss's laundry comes into play here). 

PS: If all you're going to take away from this post is that my font selection sucks (copy and pasting from vim, notepad++, MS Word), you have a good eye. 

PPS: Wipe that smug grin off your face. Four eyes.