Some places form ideas about their chosen few who then get the good work. It just seems to keep happening in the permie jobs I take. I really want to go contrac

Some places form ideas about their chosen few who then get the good work. It just seems to keep happening in the permie jobs I take. I really want to go contracting so I can get out in 5-10 years time! I'm ploughing through a doorstop book on C#/.NET and using Anki to cement knowledge. After that I figure I'll have a better idea of what I might want to learn in more depth.