Field, supervisor—customer service? Manufacturing or utilities?
I am from the tech industry where the talent is very smart and if it also has the managing gene, it ripens faster than that!
Started out in field engineering for broadband, then general operations, then big call centers. About 40 years from Supervisor to Manager to GM to VP, SVP and EVP.
The tech world may be organized for projects, but they are among some of the worst “people managers” in the world. They generally lack social skills and the ability to see grey areas.
But to each his own.
I find that new employees THINK they are qualified now in about four months, but they continually screw over their peers and subordinates because they either don’t know what they are doing, or they think the world is run like Big Brother.