Upskilling/Keeping skills sharp

Machine learning engineer here (\~3 YOE), but r/MachineLearning seems to be more research focused than career-focused, so I thought I'd ask the question here.

From what I hear from my friends in software engineering, I should be trying to build skills on-the-job by picking up work that challenges me/makes me learn. I'm having a difficult time applying this to my own career.

I mainly work with image data and my current job(as well as my previous one) mostly looks like …

datascience skills upskilling