Hello Everyone, I've been a PM for software development projects for 8 months and I've recently been getting fed up with what project management is. The reason I'm posting this is to make sure that project work isn't all the same everywhere. I'd also love to hear about other industry experiences.

It's been very frustrating being lied to on delivery dates, devs not taking the work seriously, not having any authority to prioritize anything, having stakeholders and clients always ask me about delays that I can not justify because I can't get accurate deadlines, having developers tell me this task can't be done just because I am not a technical person, always having to force people to talk during scrum meetings, and always being bombarded with problems (I know it's the job) while seeing little to no progress.

Is the workplace bad or is this what project management really is?