If you like 100% focusing on programming, I wouldn't recommend consulting. Consulting is a great way to get a broad range of exposure to every part of running

If you like 100% focusing on programming, I wouldn't recommend consulting. Consulting is a great way to get a broad range of exposure to every part of running a business. If you want to handle client relationships, planning, dealing with finances, payment issues, and the like, you'll like consulting. It's a very "heads up" whiteboarding-with-the-client, very social kind of work. Maybe that suits you, maybe it doesn't. Often the problems clients face are at the intersection of organizational and technical problems, not purely technical ones. (I wrote about my 8 years consulting here https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2020/12/22/hack-your-career-with-consulting https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2020/12/22/hack-your-career-wi...)