What is it like to posses the prerequisites of a project manager and?
Id say, forget the long term and focus on doing your job well now. Learn all you can about being great in your current job. Also, learn _outside_ your current role, so that you grow beyond it. Be interested in a lot of things, create opportunities to expand to new areas. Earn respect from other people, so that they speak good of you. Deliver value to other people, so that they remember you when they need help. Try different things, keep an open mind. And when opportunities arise, take them with curiosity. AND, never make yourself irreplaceable, but always grow the next generation to pick up on your role, so that you can move on. Or, set up your own company and, voil, youre a CEO :). For disclosure, Im a CEO of my own company, but Ive also done the first thing. Ive read maybe 200 books on my own time, Ive visited conferences, Ive built connections with interesting people. Over the last 15 years or so. Im okay financially and I love the work I do. I feed my family and keep them dry. I _have_ a family. Im still curious and want to try new things myself. I hope I havent left behind anyone who has a reason to bear a grudge on me. Hope that helps, Petri