For those who have experience in both implementation consulting and managed services/post-production, if you could only choose one for the next 10 years, which would it be and why? What ultimately made you choose one over the other?

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Personally I’d prefer implementation consulting. For implementations you learn new technologies from the ground up, work through various designs from the ground up and know the why behind them. Given that’s why Id choose implementation consulting, I view managed services as “inheriting solution design” and working with what’s already in place (for the most part). Post deployment can be monotonous and boring but really really easy. If I were to want to grow my skill sets over the next 10 years I’d choose implementations

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Definitely implementation. The clients and scenery change, the problems you solve change, the technology changes. For me that's fun, invigorating, challenging.

Managed services feels too close to working in an internal IT department at some random company even though you're doing that stuff for multiple clients. Support tickets and the same Microsoft 365 and VPN and PC won't boot up issues day after day.

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