Hey there fellow civil engineers. 10 YOE and moved to a PM role about 3 years ago. For those 3 years I've had a love/hate relationship with my job. I love working with people in my company and the designers and engineers that I deal with day to day. Really good culture. However; I absolutely despise dealing with the clients. Most are very unprofessional and often get yelled at about schedule on the regular on conference calls (unrealistic expectations for deadlines that I repeatedly say are unrealistic). It's stopping me from wanting to do regular BD because BD just means having to deal with them more.

Just wondering if any other PMs feel this way about clients, or if I'm just burnt out. I love my team and teaching and mentoring, and really think I'm part of a great company. I also really enjoy the money. But the money isn't worth this stress. I'm just continously overwhelmed by the client 😮‍💨