Comment by cootsnuck
21 days ago
Yup, it is. It's my bread and butter too. So much so I decided to just do it for myself and start my own consulting company.
Being a solutions engineer at the right companies means you get to be one of the few people with full end-to-end visibility of the entire lifecycle of both a client and the technology adoption, deployment, optimization, maintenance, etc. process. And you'll get to see it dozens or hundreds of times for a variety of clients across industries. Again though, totally depends on the company.
@cootsnuck, if I didn't really love working with the people/company I'm at now, I'd also start my own consulting company.
Once I realized you really only need 3-5 consistent customers (well, you only REALLY NEED one customer), and you can generally keep customers and employees happy by responding quickly and doing what you say you'll do (aka not taking on work you can't handle) I'm confident I could branch out on my own if I ever wanted to.