Working for a smaller company will normally give you a far wider scope of technologies due to how many staff they have, this isn't always a positive however, bu

Working for a smaller company will normally give you a far wider scope of technologies due to how many staff they have, this isn't always a positive however, but it can certainly be more interesting. Working in a larger company normally will have the other benefit that you become an 'expert' within your field much more easily, because your silo'ed working on that one thing most of the time, however make sure you enjoy that one area your working in! Out side of work just try dedicated some time each day, say an hour or even just 30min, read some material or try build something a little bit more each day. Once you have a plan stick to it and look back at the end of each week to see if your actually learning anything, if not amend your plan to suit. Picking what to learn when you have limited time is going to be fairly difficult, your probably going to want something that you already have an head start on so you can make decent progress with your limited learning time. For example if you know Cisco routers, learn Juniper routers. If you know PHP learn MySQL, Memcache etc...