Professional Career Oriented Opinion Needed

long time lurker on my old account and back for advice/ professionals opinion

Contracting 3 Years in DF field in the DMV area for LEO, contract still has plenty of time left on it; almost 10 total in IT/tech combined with a BA in IT and a handful of vendor specific certs in mobile/computer forensics. I have the opportunity to go the federal route but at the sacrifice of starting out at the bottom, the position gets me a TS …

account advice area back career computer computer forensics computerforensics contract dmv forensics leo mobile old opinion professional professionals tech vendor