“…There has been limited research on project management careers (Bredin & Söderlund, 2013; Keegan et al, 2018), but interest is growing (Chipulu et al, 2017), with recent calls by scholars (Akkermans et al, 2020) for more extensive research in this area. Project management has traditionally been viewed as an ‘accidental profession’ (Darrell et al, 2010; Pinto & Kharbanda, 1995; Richardson et al, 2015) with individuals finding themselves “rolling into the profession” (Havermans et al, 2019, p. 346), with the role of project manager often “thrust upon [them] rather than being sought” (Pinto & Kharbanda, 1995, p. 216).…”