I got into product through data. I was the person reading dashboards, watching users drop off at step 3, wondering why no one was doing anything about it. Eventually I realised I wanted to be the one doing something about it.
What pulled me in was the combination: understanding people deeply, finding the real problem underneath the stated one, and then moving fast enough to put something in their hands before the theory gets stale.
I thrive in the messy, cross-functional middle — where engineering wants one thing, business wants another, and the user just wants it to work. That chaos is where I feel most useful.