A Hobby Mark, could you let uncle SAM know please, he thinks it’s profitable business and taxes me
This morning I read Mark’s diatribe on why you have to be a major msp player or you don’t deserve to exist, OK maybe I paraphrased it a bit. While I was trying to come up with a catching comeback to defend myself and the downtrodden SPF’s of the world, as Vlad likes to refer to us, I got the shock of my life, Vlad wants to be one of us, here is proof in writing. He wants the “lifestyle”.
Just so I don’t have to read about massive suicides of SPF’s in CRN tomorrow, let me once again assure you, you can be happy and make a fine living without a hundred empyoyees and a system so automated you never get to touch a computer again.
No I am not saying you don’t need to have a good business background/understanding to be a consultant in this industry, you really do. The days of being able to get by with just some nuts and bolts tech knowledge are numbered for sure. But there is no reason to jump off a bridge if you enjoy doing things yourself and have the business smarts and the tech smarts to go with it. If you don’t and you only know the tech side, I would really advise you try and find a businessman/woman to partner up with, because if you can’t see and understand how the business runs and how the technology interacts with it, you are no longer going to be able to be the trusted advisor you have been in the past. The world is surely changing, I just do not believe it MSP or nothing.