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Okay, what does a project manager do? I have a real hard time imagining what anyone does in these "office" type jobs (i imagine many of them are remote now, but i don't know what else to call them lol)
Supposedly, they help organize people and tasks, whether that actually happens depends on how good they are.
The project has an end goal and they will help break it down into smaller, manageable milestones that drive the project forward. They manage questions like: who will do the task, when does it need to be done, what does this worker need to accomplish the task, what barriers exist and how can we remove them? They manage interfacing between different teams on a project as well as between those doing the project work and those who fund the project.
There's plenty more they can do. Whether this is a necessary position is debatable, but in my experience, a good project manager is vital to a project and a bad one is a hindrance to the project.
Okay that job makes sense to me. What are these projects though? Sorry if that's a weird question. I just have no clue and am really curious about it.
Anything can be a project, in basically any industry. Marketing or advertising campaigns, development of new products... A relative works for a huge corp that renovates buildings after flooding and there are tons of different teams of people that need to be coordinated among and between to complete that kind of job. Think of a hospital that is full of mold after a flood and the kind of rigorous restoration needed to bring it back into a usable state.
Another whole category are government contracts: there are engineering and architecture firms that employ thousands of people with hundreds of contracts, having teams of dozens of people making plans for all kinds of shit for the feds, states, and cities (transportation, infrastructure, land use, conservation... You name it). Then all of those plans have things that need to get implemented, usually by construction crews with their own PMs.