| Have you ever considered going as a solo consultant? You can cherry pick projects that are interesting to you, and you can jump to another company every few months. Just try to avoid long commitment projects. For example: A few quick jobs I did in the past: - Jump into a startup sourcecode and find out why the whole microservice ecosystem would fall like a house of cards after some time. Didn't have to fix it myself, just provide evidences. - Create a brand new embedable front-end library for a marketing startup. The old one was a pile of crap. - Setup a design system foundation for a big company. - Integrate an existing chatbot on google home. - Code review an entire project made by a solo dev. - Improve performance of messy backend-frontend architecture. |
Isn't consultancy an extremely saturated and competitive field? I've considered this to be a realistic option.