Should I quit my "consulting" position for MSc CS convertion course, Embedded SWE or other roles

[ornate wyvern]

This depends on your goals. What is your goal? What do you want to achieve?

Nowhere in your answer do you specify what you're trying to do, what you want

And the answer of what you should do next depends entirely on that

[untold sleet]

Thanks for your response, sorry it's a bit vague but I might just be in a state of optimising because I feel like (I don't mean to be negative) I might be screwing up my career by staying because I'm not learning anything or progressing and I'm not enjoying it (all I do is eg do basic resets of passwords - not what was described initially)

I wouldn't mind being a SWE and would enjoy it, originally I wanted to go the cloud consulting then cloud solutions architect path

I was thinking even if I try to do SWE I may be able change to cloud later if I wanted to (my current role won't even progress to an actual cloud role whether it's DevOps, consultant or infrastructure admin etc and I'm learning nothing)

[ornate wyvern]

I'd say you can try becoming a software engineer

let's assume that's your goal

first, when did you graduate?

as in how long ago approximately

[untold sleet]

Thanks 1.5 years ago

Another question if you don't mind me asking is if it's worth going the embedded path because it has less relevance to cloud/pure swe, and if I should maybe go for regular SWE positions (eg application, web dev etc)

[ornate wyvern]

that depends on the following

aside from the work you do now, what experience do you have?

[untold sleet]

Unfortunately nothing else, not sure if it'll help but I'm about to do personal projects/online courses eg around OS/Linux kernel Dev if embedded is the path i go down

I've done a few cloud/DevOps personal projects and surprisingly had a grad pure swe interview recently - which is why I'm thinking it's possibly viable aswell