Anyone else find themselves feeling a little stagnant in their career? I’ve been consulting for about 4+ years now when I was originally in a software dev role. I still work closely in the dev space but since I’ve been consulting my workload and day-to-day tasks have dropped significantly. There are times when I’m very busy but overall I have a ton of free time which, honestly, I usually spend bullshytting(catching up on sports, video games, etc…) instead of working on my craft.
I’ve been far less hands-on with the coding and it’s a concern for me as I want to eventually fall back to that career path. It’s even something that comes up in interviews; they try to put my feet to the fire whenever I go for software engineering roles now even though I have 4+ years of experience doing it and I’m still technically doing it, just in a more loose manner.
I get paid decently but with inflation and the current market there are definitely some bags I’m missing out on. My job and company are both very cushy and it’s gonna take some convincing for me to move on but I’m worried that me being lazy and too complacent is gonna catch up to me…