u/GonnaBeWealthy

Early 20s, two years into a remote role at a public company in the manufacturing space. My role has been a mix of commercial work (managing customer relationships, contracts, quoting, physical execution) and corp dev support (budgets, forecast models, investor decks).

Leadership is restructuring and I need to pick a lane:

Option A: Project Management; Keep owning customer relationships, manage full project lifecycles, be the person building out the company's commercial foundation. Exciting but potentially narrower long term.

Option B: Traditional corp dev. Modeling, M&A, deal sourcing, due diligence. More portable skills, but I'd hand off relationships I spent two years building.

I am trying to prioritize interesting work, career trajectory, and comp ceiling.

For people further along in either track - what does the 10-15 year ceiling actually look like? What would you choose?