At year 15 or so, he'll change his mind about project managers. Project management is one of those broken things in the industry because it's never taken serio

At year 15 or so, he'll change his mind about project managers. Project management is one of those broken things in the industry because it's never taken seriously. People promoted to PM generally receive no training or mentorship. In fact, sometimes the only way to break into management is to quit your job and start somewhere else with a slightly exaggerated resume. And sometimes the only qualification required is a desire to give it a try. So you have an entire class of people whose skills follow what you'd expect in a task with no discipline or training, with 50% of PMs moving the needle in a positive direction, and 50% in a negative direction (to varying degrees like a bell curve). Roughly 25% of them are people you'd actually like managing your team.