To anyone that made the switch from account management to project management, what made you pull the trigger?

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I realized I wanted to drive internal processes more than sell in work with clients.
I valued internal relationship building versus external.
I enjoy operations and timelines and sticking to them.
I liked being close to the work versus trying to drive a business strategy.
I liked the flexibility of project to project versus year+ on a client.
I like building budgets but in both PM and AM I hate being the timesheet and budget watcher 😰

Hope this helps :)

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I couldn’t deal with working with clients anymore. I just decided and felt better mentally only working internally.

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