I always recommend consulting at a quality firm. I recommend consulting because you almost never get put on a project that matches your skillset exact or at all! I'm a fullstack dotnet developer and I got put on a Kotlin mobile app assignment because "well you know react". Pick something that isn't staff augmentation and that has relatively short assignments of < 1 year and enjoy your skill expansion.
I must confess this is exactly why I started consulting and the changing projects and tech (software for different product niches) force me to learn something new in every project. I really like this.
I noticed a pattern where I stopped enjoying work after about one year when I learned enough for it to become routine and would start thinking about changing job or get fired because I would become unproductive because of boreout. Or get fired because I told someone on the team that I didn't care.. who told the management.
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I always recommend consulting at a quality firm. I recommend consulting because you almost never get put on a project that matches your skillset exact or at all! I'm a fullstack dotnet developer and I got put on a Kotlin mobile app assignment because "well you know react". Pick something that isn't staff augmentation and that has relatively short assignments of < 1 year and enjoy your skill expansion.
I must confess this is exactly why I started consulting and the changing projects and tech (software for different product niches) force me to learn something new in every project. I really like this.
I noticed a pattern where I stopped enjoying work after about one year when I learned enough for it to become routine and would start thinking about changing job or get fired because I would become unproductive because of boreout. Or get fired because I told someone on the team that I didn't care.. who told the management.