I'm an experienced engineer/developer and I have worked as a corporate developer all my life, as either a FTE/perm or contractor through temp agencies.
I have an itch to go independent and wonder what I should do? There are so many potential routes:
1) Try to parlay my existing skills (backend Java, databases, cloud) and network into contracts with medium and large companies
2) Pivot and get into web and wordpress development. This seems more fun to me than enterprise stuff but the clients would be different most likely, unless I could target the larger companies as well. I am g